Here is another great letter to the editor in the wonderful Herald Journal! Leave it to Liberal USU's NPR to air a program that is anti Bush/USA like Bobbie refers to.

We should hold people like Bobbie accountable for their words. Here this letter to the editor will stay. It is just disgusting! Bobbie says that we are a democracy. Bobby is very wrong! Bobbie goes on to talk about how Global Warning (Hot Air) is the real threat and how we should all watch Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth.” I call it "Convenient BS." Sorry Bobbie, I spent my money on United 93!

"Let Bush swagger into Iraqi morgue

To the editor: 7/13/06

Many of you probably missed the radio interview on KUSU the other day with a morgue director in Baghdad. It is something all of us in the U.S.A. need to hear. The exhausted man described how counting the dead Iraqis in the war is almost impossible. In Baghdad, where they can keep the best counts, the numbers are skyrocketing. From the beginning, there have been constant dead men, women and children entering this one morgue. This year, however, the numbers have reached 40 to 140 dead per day and they cannot deal with the bodies. He also said that the bodies have often been mutilated and many died slow, horrible deaths. Listening to President Bush, giving yet another macho, sappy, “bring the world freedom” speech on his birthday July 6, a wish occurred. The wish is that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and all other outspoken, swaggering promoters of this war should have to spend the rest of the war in Baghdad. They should have to watch those dead bodies come into that morgue. They should have to be on the front lines with their troops and watch Americans die. This war may have gone differently if the ones who started it had to see blood and be there, not just fly in for comfortable, protected meetings. Bush said that we have to bring freedom to the world no matter what the cost. It is certainly costing both our country and the Iraqi people too much. It seems we are bent on forcing freedom on countries, especially if they have resources like oil, that we want. Can freedom be forced? What if the culture and conditions of the country so different from ours are not ripe for democracy? How well is our own democracy doing? We have had recent elections where fraud was suspected but there was a refusal for recounts, congress is the pawn of big business and we look forward to a declining environment and global warming, Social Security is on the verge of collapse and health care is failing. We are so busy trying to plant the flag of freedom on other soils that it is scary to envision what our own country will look like when our children are grown. Take your children to the new movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and start working on your apologies to them now.

Bobbie Cleave

Hyde Park"