To the editor:

In a letter that appeared Feb. 28, Don Caillouet spoke of the protests being more anti-Bush than antiwar. While I feel that I am protesting war, I don’t have a problem being seen as protesting the one who is trying to push the war down the throats of the world.

I’m afraid I don’t reconize this insight and knowledge Mr. Caillouet ascribes to the president. I see a man who is generating the facts as needs arise to justify an action that has little to do with terrorism, and more to do with global power. I see our country acting the bully, with its “shock and awe” tactics and its “highway of death” history.

Face it, dropping thousands and thousands of bombs on a city of 5 million mostly innocent civilians isn’t courage, it isn’t strategy, it’s heartless, cowardly cruelty, and it’s being done in our names, on our tab, and it rests on all of our consciences.

Bob Gent,

Lawrence