DUELING MOMS

President Bush has now produced tearful moms to defend his failed war in Iraq. How juvenile can he get? The issue here is not who can trot out the most moms, but the unfairness and evil of any mom losing a son or daughter in a war that should not have occurred in the first place. If Bush had done right from the beginning, there would be no grieving moms or dead and maimed American soldiers to mourn.

The right thing to do now is to bring our troops home and stop killing them and innocent Iraqis. We can do this without any injury to ourselves or to the Iraqis. Stopping the violence and expense would, in fact, benefit all parties involved. Still, Bush claims that pulling out would weaken the United States. Just how that weakening would occur he doesn't explain. Clearly, this is just another self-serving assertion that he expects his simple minded followers to swallow without question.