Letter: This war is not about politics

Monday, Oct. 29, 2001 | 8:50 a.m.

Warren Willis Sr.'s Oct. 23 letter to the editor makes many statements that are a little off center. For one, he writes that Al Gore tried to steal the last election. Well, 500,000 more Americans thought Gore would have been a better president than George Bush, and the verdict of what happened in Florida is not in yet.

And Mr. Willis makes it sound like drilling for oil in Alaska is a good thing. As for Social Security, Bush wants to privatize it. Does this mean turn it over to a for-profit company so it can go the way of HMOs?

And to say Gore would not have declared war on terrorism is ludicrous. This is not a Republican war or a Democratic war, it's an American war. And I support Bush 100 percent in his efforts against terrorism, but on domestic issues there are many differences.

FRANK A. MILES

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