I read the Feb. 18 letter, “Liberal shots tear nation apart.” I understand about being tired of the backstabbing, bickering and name-calling. As a citizen, I experienced eight years of hatred for a president from a conservative Congress. Not only did they throw mud, they spent many millions of dollars and years of time in an exercise that never led to finding illegal actions by the president. I agree that the past 12 years of bickering, backstabbing and mud-throwing is awful and wish the conservatives hadn’t set the precedent of everything goes for the media.

Letter writer Charles R. Carlson is wrong when he states everyone agreed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Social Security needs to be fixed. Most of the people I know agree that we never should have gone to war and that Social Security certainly doesn’t need the crash and burn fix President Bush is promoting. Let’s face it, our country is divided and it is going to be polarized well into the future.

Mr. Bush is the president. Our nation will endure because we have respect for the office, if not the man. I am sorry the forward-thinking, open-minded liberals learned the art of bickering and name calling from the conservatives. It is one example I wish the conservatives hadn’t set.

Judy Janes

Lynnwood