Letter: Bush has taken giant steps toward security, freedom

Editor,

This letter is in response to Jason Darensburg's ill-informed and rather naive letter from Thursday's Daily Lobo in which he attacks a letter that was written by Rebekah Casey. I feel the need to correct and expand on a few of the points Darensburg tried to make.

First, he states he doesn't want to burst Casey's bubble for claiming that a majority of Americans voted for Bush, when in fact a majority of Americans didn't vote.

Well, he is correct in that a majority of Americans didn't vote in the 2004 election. I hate to burst his bubble, but the majority of Americans have not voted in any election in decades.

But to keep on the point that Casey was trying to make, the 2004 election had the most votes in our nation's history, and so President Bush won by the largest popular vote in our nation's history.

Second, he attacks Casey and calls her a pathetic Republican because she puts labels on people. Well, in his letter I counted five labels, so isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?

Third, he attacks Casey for saying Bush has delivered democracy to the Middle East and neutralized a threat against America and others. For him to not agree with that statement, I must ask, "What planet are you living on?"

Bush got rid of an evil and ruthless dictator who is responsible for the deaths of many thousands of people, and you are upset about that? Iraq just had free elections for the first time in its existence, and you are upset by that? And, yes, there were links between Iraq and al Qaeda. In order to win the war on terrorism, we must be tough on the countries that harbor terrorists.

Yes, it is a shame that we have lost 1,900 troops in Iraq. But those troops died for a noble cause. What is wrong with trying to destroy a threat before it reaches the magnitude of Sept. 11, 2001? America has been at war for years with a group of people who hate freedom and hate everything good that America and the rest of the free world stands for. We finally have a President that is willing to do something about it, and that upsets you?

Darren Dvorak

Daily Lobo reader