We’re lucky to be in America, not Iraq

George Bush is my president. He has my admiration, my honor and my trust. Our military troops respect him. When he calls them to action, they go, which is a great deal more than I can say for the peaceniks standing on the overpasses holding their “War Is Terrorism” signs. To them (and their equivalent in letter writers), I say this:

There you stand breathing God’s free air in a land of freedom that you refuse to defend. You only dare stand there because you know you won’t be hauled off to jail and beaten until you’re dead, or wish you were.

You know this because this is America, not Iraq. Had you been born an Iraqi and were so foolish as to stand on a street corner in Baghdad with a sign accusing Saddam of being a terrorist, you would be eradicated.

But, of course, you don’t have the guts to go to Saddam’s backyard and call him the tyrant and the murderer that he is. No, you take the coward’s position on an overpass in America and taunt the president of the United States because to do so risks you nothing.

I would ask you instead to go home and hug your children and teach them right from wrong. Thank the good Lord that George Bush is the president and that he and the troops he commands defend your sorry hides and your right to make fools of yourselves on overpasses.

Everett