Letters to the Editor

Do you ever read the Letters to the Editor in your local newspaper or a magazine? Whenever I want to put my finger on the pulse of America, I turn to these little unplucked gems.

At the gym today, I found out what America (and the world) thinks by reading a copy of Time magazine while doing time on the stair climber. Guess what I learned?

1. We are losing the war in Iraq
2. George Bush is an idiot
3. Hurricane Katrina proved that America is a joke
4. George Bush is an idiot
5. George Bush is a racist
6. The citizens of Iraq are too stupid for freedom and Democracy
7. George Bush is an idiot

Of course everyone has a right to their opinion (however misguided and uneducated it may be). Reading such garbage reinforces my belief that there are some extremely disappointed parents roaming the Earth trying to figure out where they went wrong.

The opinions that bother me the most have to do with item #6. Based on the "rhetoric" (ha!) in these letters, Iraqi citizens have no desire for freedom and are not smart enough to understand what it takes to build a democratic form of government. The irony rests in the fact that these opinions come from the most caring, sensitive and humane among us: Liberals.

Those who believe that freedom of expression, freedom of choice and freedom to parade naked in the streets in the name of "pride" are the pillars on which our country was founded, want to to deny those same freedoms to a country that finally has a chance to start from scratch.

These hyprocrits make my stomach turn.