Public Opinion and Iraqgate

We have followed your coverage with horror. As to the public not caring, how could we not care when our President for years cavalierly courts a despotic ruler and then suddenly turns on him, killing and injuring thousands of innocent people in the process? I suppose it should be no surprise that an Administration which cares nothing for our own children should have such disdain for the lives of distant people. Individually, most of us would not commit murder; yet we stand by silently while our President does it in our name.

As to that silence, we must remember how the Gulf War was packaged and sold to us (without benefit of a free press); anyone who objected to it was un-American. Most politicians are still afraid to be perceived as critical of it; even Bill Clinton felt it necessary to express admiration for Bush’s war.

LINDA GIRARD

Beverly Hills