Dennis Kucinich, presidential candidate, was quoted making the following contrast in a story that ran in the Sun Journal on Jan. 15: “… fearlessness that fueled the Revolutionary War leaders and the Bush administration’s politics of fear as justification for invading foreign nations ‘illegally.”‘

Why did “illegally” have quotation marks around it? Was it to infer that there is a question about the war being illegal? Before the war was ever launched, more than 300 law professors from more than 80 law schools from all over this nation advised that the war was illegal. I’ve never heard anyone question that illegality. It violates both U.S. and international law.

When we needed quotation marks was when the president was speaking of “weapons of mass destruction.” I’m not against quotation marks. And of course, there are things that Dennis Kucinich says that do need to be quoted, “Hundreds of years ago they used to treat patients by bleeding them with leeches. Well, you know, the insurance companies do that very well today.”

Tom Bulger, Wilton