I was driving in downtown Chattanooga this past Wednesday about noon time when I observed a group of men and women with signs protesting the upcoming war with Iraq.
I am proud to live in a country where people can express their opinion without fear of being shot or hung like they do in Iraq and other countries that hate the United States. I'm sure these were good people who love America.
President Bush didn't want to go to war when he joined the National Guard, then went AWOL for two years. Why should he be permitted to send our brave young fighting men to war when he wouldn't go himself?
He has been telling Iraq that we are comming for two years. That has given then time to plant land mines, booby traps, place their cannisters of biological and chemical agents where they want them and no telling what else that will enable them to fight a better war. This will only kill more Americans.
I wouldn't trade ONE AMERICAN for every Arab in the world.
I am a retired Navy Chief and I know what war is like. Let Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice and Colin Powell go if they want to, but keep our men here.
Max Payne
Ducktown, Tn.