Editor:

First, I would like to say a few words to Manny Antonacci’s letter, “Liberals may rape dogs, but conservatives worship the devil,” Oct. 14, which seemed to have no other purpose than to insult.

If you’re going to write to a paper, make the point of your writing something other than insulting someone else. Say something worth reading. And don’t liberals embrace differences and different points of view?

If so, why are you so hateful of Republicans? Shouldn’t you embrace them because of their differences to you? And do you know whom the original pro-slavery, racist, bigoted and intolerant political party was?

The Democrats who enslaved millions of African Americans and put in Jim Crow and Black Code laws to prohibit blacks from exercising their rights as citizens. It’s funny how you seem to forget the history of the party you liberals spring from. And to Antonacci and everyone else who claims to support the troops and not the war, I say this-shut up. How can you support someone and oppose the very cause they fight for?

If a young lady wanted to elope and her parents said that they supported her and yet locked her in the house so she couldn’t leave, are they really supporting her or are they just masking their opposition?

The majority of the troops-and yes, there are some soldiers who oppose Iraq-believe in being over there and that it is the right thing to do. So if you truly support them, why do you oppose them?

Who better to know the true situation there-some college kid sitting in a dorm room or a soldier actually on the ground? Instead, you protest and demand that we withdraw immediately, which any fool knows is the wrong thing to do and brings the popular support even lower.

The more you liberals complain, the more it makes the news, the more resolved the insurgency grows, the more attacks on U.S. troops, and the more U.S. troops die. So if you truly support the troops, shut up and let us do the job we were trained to do so that we can finish the job and come home victorious.

Kenneth Pavia

Sophomore, History

Private First Class, U.S. Army