To the editor:

I am uncomfortable writing this in this pre-election, politically charged environment, but my conscience compels me to do so.

Contrary to the Saturday Column statement about those of us who disagree or oppose policies of our president, especially the pre-emptive strike on Iraq, we do not hate Mr. Bush! We do our president no favor if we let slide by bad policy when many of us ordinary citizens are insightful enough to recognize what might or will happen down the road. Isn’t even that our responsibility?

Since childhood, I have equated the word hate with murder. Did not the Great Teacher teach us thus?

I would like to ask the respected editor of our daily newspaper to reserve the use of the word hate to things more applicable than his opinion of some of his fellow citizens.

Sally Van Tassel,

Lawrence