Two Wars

Irving A. Greenfield

Reader Response to Dueling Editors

There are two wars going on. One against Iraqi and the other against the American people and their Constitutional guarantees. And I am against both.

        The war against Iraqi is for oil and suspension of certain Constitutional rights under the guise of "security." Our government has at its head an unelected president, who was given the Presidency by a reactionary Supreme Court. This president has surrounded himself with men who have formed an oligarchy, whose stated mission is to remake America in their fundamentalist image, leaving the religious right and the wealthy at the top and the rest of us in hell if they could manage that.

        Their record on everything over the past two years is absolute proof of their disregard for civil rights, for world opinion, for our own elderly, sick and disabled. We are inching closer and closer to a totalitarian government. Bush and his henchmen are little more than the German blackshirts before Hitler took power in Germany. We are in great danger and nothing is being done about it by the Democrats in either house.

        With the exception of one Senator from Virginia every voice is stilled.

        Thomas Pain wrote "There are the times that try men's souls ..." We are certainly in such a time.