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Demand peace from leaders

On the third day, there’s Michael Ramirez. He followed letters from Joseph Harari and Hal Dixon, Feb. 14 and Feb. 13, respectively, who could be expected to distort and denigrate views of Dr. Bruce Amundsen and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

But someone must say their cherished views on war and peace would have assured destruction of civilization in the 1980s without mitigation from groups like PSR and the former Hanford Education Action League.

The Spokesman-Review didn’t have to publish Ramirez on Sunday. The cartoonist is a caricature of hatred for President Obama and put misleading words under three presidents not to explain 100 years of global terror, but to justify his relentless beating of a lame horse.

On one thing I disagree with Amundsen: “This is not who we (Americans) are.” It is who we are because leaders and pundits insist we continue killings, arming and alienating to gain power, prosperity and peace. We fought and failed with the realists. Get your dream on. Demand peace.

Rusty Nelson

Rockford

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