Having lived during the Vietnam era, I was fairly certain that anti-war protesters would never become morally inferior to the leadership which they protested. But, alas, the stench of grotesque hypocrisy surrounds the current anti-war movement.

The protesters, mainly active in the more affluent areas of Maine and of the country as a whole, believe strongly that the Iraq war is about oil, oil and oil.

Oddly, however, these people have made no, repeat no, effort to publicly denounce their greedy oil consumption, to divest themselves of oil related investments, to renounce their SUVs. Indeed, they remain totally mute about all gas guzzling devices, even such blatant aids to obesity as snowmobiles, personal watercraft, ATVs and, of course, riding lawnmowers.

The net result of the protesters’ hypocritical failure to address the central issue of Americans’ thoughtless over-consumption of oil has self defeatingly been to award President Bush the moral high ground. He is only doing well that which a responsible national leader should do: fulfill the needs and wants of his fellow Americans.

In brief, he’s bringing home the oil.

Stuart G. Hardy, Strong