San Diego...conservative Navy town no more...

Since I don't have time to do much this morning, I thought I would share a few letters from the normally conservative San Diego Union. It is the Union's policy to publish letters proportionate to the sides of an issue involved. Please note that all six letters are critical of President Get Your War On. My favorite:

Bush says it's time for people to show "some backbone." He's right. Let's start with him.

He can have a press conference and go before the American people in a forum that isn't as staged as his gatherings with Republicans, hand-picked religious groups or tightly controlled appearances at military bases. He can stand up and answer questions that aren't offered up by his administration's selected reporters.

After all, he is asking for a commitment that will kill hundreds of thousands of mostly innocent people, a fact that is the least talked about part of his patriotic bravado.

To ask people to support such a war, Bush needs to give them more than catch phrases without substance. Americans are probably the bravest, kindest people in the world; but there are things they won't forgive– such as being misled.

If Bush cannot stand in front of this country and answer hard questions, he has no business plunging the United States and the rest of the world into this war.

MARION LEWISH
San Diego