Editor:

Adam Marletta [Aug. 8 Letter to the Editor, “President’s failed policies don’t take a vacation] and the other anti-Bush protesters seem a bit forgetful. They state that President Bush sent us to war under false pretenses. Let me jog their collective memories. Islamo-fascists have done the following: 1979, seized the American Embassy in Tehran; 1983, bombed the US Embassy in Beirut killing 63; 1983 bombed the US Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241; 1983 bombed the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait; 1985, bombed U.S. Airbase at Rhein-Mein, killing 22; 1985 hijacked Achille Lauro, executing American in wheelchair; 1988 blew up Pan Am flight 103, killing 259; 1993 executed two CIA agents at Langley; 1993 first attempt to blow up World Trade Center, killing six, wounding 1,000; 1995 car bomb at military complex in Riyadh, killing seven servicemen and women; 1996, blow up Khobar towers in Dharan, killing 19, injuring 500; 1998, attack U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 300, wounding 5,000-plus; 2000, attack on the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors; 2001, attack and destruction of World Trade Center and attack on Pentagon, killing almost 3,000.

Most of these acts were acts of war and were reason enough to send troops into the middle of the Islamic world and kill as many Islamo-fascists as was militarily possible. Unfortunately, those on the Left and their Democratic appeasement crowd have neither the intestinal fortitude nor the desire to protect America. Why defend something you hate and despise? If actual attacks against America aren’t sufficient to warrant a military response, what is?

Eavesdropping on communications between two people who are both inside the United States is prohibited under Bush’s order that allows some domestic surveillance. If you don’t want your calls intercepted, don’t call enemy combatants.

Torture? Cutting off an innocent person’s head with a knife is torture. Making them form pyramids in the nude is not.

James R. Cressey

Arundel