Soldiers are murderers

Loren Steinfeld’s letter to the editor, “Soldiers not Terrorists” (July 5), supporting the slaughter of civilians in Iraq is a typical opinion of those who think the end justifies the means. We have a monster in the White House who is of the same opinion. He doesn’t care how many human beings are slaughtered, doesn’t care how many families are shattered, doesn’t care about anything but fulfilling his lust for power and money.\nIt is hilarious that Steinfeld mentions the Geneva Convention. The Iraq war is totally illegal from an international, worldwide perspective, but that is not a concern? Loren, yes, it is our fault that seven more kids are dead. That is established fact. Our highly trained, well-paid murderers did the killing. I know it isn’t politically correct to call our soldiers murderers, but that is what most of them are, what we train them to be.\nThe American government has been exporting horror, murder, and terror for years now while encouraging fear and hate within our own country. We continue to manufacture murderers in our military because, after all, that is what we are best at, isn’t it? Our economics, our philosophies, our educational and scientific institutions pale before our ability to kill. America truly is a world leader in terrorism. There is no justification for our actions. No wonder that many call us the Great Satan. Our actions are usually evil these days, it seems. Long gone are the days when we were actually interested in helping others.\nWe all need to wake up and smell the blood. Just because we are killing and mutilating Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghanis, (insert other nationalities at will!), doesn’t make it OK. Just because our government says it is OK to slaughter children (as long as they are “foreigners”) doesn’t make it OK. Someday in the future, possibly even the next generation, enough good people will be heartsick enough to say “no more,” and this will all end. Perhaps the new America, after the revolution, will be more compassionate, less fearful and less paranoid.