To the editor:

Letter writer Philip Deamer asks, “Remember Vietnam?” I believe he could have asked, “Remember Iraq?” That war began shortly after then-President Bush’s son Neil was headlined for his involvement in the Silverado savings and loan scandal, which cost the American people between $400 million and $600 million. Silverado had hidden away or simply not bothered to report bad loans and other expenses which would have given a different picture of the fiscal health of the Silverado company. Sound familiar?

The Iraq war neatly deflected attention away from the Bush family’s involvement in Silverado. Now we have the current President Bush, and Vice President Cheney subject to some questions about their financial wheeling and dealing, and we have President Bush itching for another war with Iraq. Why not? It worked the first time.

If Americans don’t wake up, we will find ourselves in a war with Iraq which will benefit the oil barons and war industry, with whom President Bush is so cozy, and which will spend the lives of our servicemen like spare change, not to mention a lot of innocent Iraqis. You can count on no one connected with the Bush administration having to see their children go to war, or suffer from the financial wrong-doings of CEOs.

David Hann,

Lawrence