Opinion - Letters to the Editor

POSTED: Saturday, Jun. 20, 2009

Agrees with column backing sanctuary

In acknowledgment of your Sunday, June 14, opinion page "Whatcom View" column by Marie Marchand, I applaud her for telling it like it is in such an eloquently presented opinion.

How soon we forget that this war was perpetrated based on lies, in my opinion.

We count the number of our soldiers killed and maimed in this war, but never count the number of innocent victims that are referred to as collateral damage.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich had the courage to declare some 20 violations by some of our leaders, and requested that they be impeached. Actually, I believe they should have been put on trial for war crimes.

As Marchand stated "the Geneva Conventions proclaim the citizen's responsibility to oppose that which he or she determines to be morally fraudulent." Yet some of our leaders actually condoned torture.

It is very disheartening to know that "four of our AWOL soldiers have been housed in our Whatcom County jail," especially when the war was illegal in the beginning, in my opinion.

Raymond R. Kanarick

Blaine