Editor,
It was heartening to read about all of the recent anti-war protests taking place throughout the country, including Albuquerque.
I sincerely hope the protests continue in every city, town and village in the country until our president realizes war is not necessary.
I am not optimistic that the president will get the message. We are being led by an egomaniac who is contemplating attacking Iraq for no other reason other than to show the world he has the biggest penis on the block.
This is a man who once said he wouldn't mind living in a dictatorship as long as he was the dictator. This is a man who claims Jesus Christ is the most influential person in his life, although I doubt Jesus would try to convert people to his philosophy using death and destruction as Mr. Bush is planning to do. This is a man who hung a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. in the White House, but apparently never listened to his speeches.
Mr. Bush is a religious and social hypocrite who has absolutely no substance. He accuses Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong II as being threats to the world, but it is Mr. Bush who is preparing to attack a country which will result in the death of thousands of innocent lives. It is Mr. Bush who is the most serious threat to world peace. Hussein and Kim are evil, reprehensible people, but they are not a threat to the United States.
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They may be a threat to their own people, and their neighbors, but they are, and should be the problem of the United Nations, not the focus of Mr. Bush's paranoia.
If Mr. Bush has his way, we will be involved in a conflagration in the Middle East that will cause the death of thousands of innocent people.
Every Muslim country in the world, and many non-Muslim countries, will hate us. We will be vulnerable to terrorist attacks for many years to come. Our economy will be destroyed and Americans will never be safe anywhere in the world.
Mr. Bush is a hypocritical, political pipsqueak who surrounded himself with bloodthirsty bastards who have no respect for human rights or life. The only person in his entire administration who has any redeeming value at all is Colin Powell and it is only because of his efforts that we are not at war already.
We have to continue to protest this administration and its reprehensible foreign policy. Mr. Bush is right about one thing. We do need regime change, but it is in Washington, not Baghdad, where the change needs to be made.
I will be at every anti-war protest in Albuquerque for the foreseeable future and hope to see everyone who loves their country, who loves peace, who loves freedom and who respects life at the protests.
Richard Fagurlund
UNM staff
