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Dear Mr. Limbaugh:

While discussing charges -- on your nationally syndicated radio show of March 14, 2006 -- that President Bush is a "liar" and that the war in Iraq is "unjust," you wondered aloud: "How many Iraqi women and children have been killed by insurgents who have been emboldened by the American left?" Moments later you asked: "What do you think this is doing for the morale of these insurgents who are probably in their last gasp over there or close to it?"

Mr. Limbaugh, I served in the U. S. Army and currently am a civil servant in the Department of Defense. I've studied defense issues for years and have written extensively about them. In a word, I know quite a bit more about national security matters than you. (By the way -- when, where, and in which uniform did you serve your country?)

Having read and written extensively about the run-up to war, I have no doubt that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, and especially Feith are all liars. Moreover, you're among the world's extremely small minority, if you believe the Iraq war to be "just." It's precisely the "unjust" nature of the America''s invasion of Iraq that has turned most of the world against us, thereby further jeopardizing our national security. Bush's war of choice has created a new worldwide growth industry. It's called "international terrorism."

But, I was especially offended to learn that you delimited patriotic criticism of our immoral, illegal and incompetently planned invasion/occupation of Iraq to "emboldening" Iraq's insurgents. Besides indicating flaccid thinking in the service of bias, such tunnel vision smacks of McCarthyism.

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