In his letter Feb. 18, Bill Baker DiGiulio said the United States is “smeared with the same muck as Hitler’s Germany.” Evidently he can’t or won’t distinguish between an imperfect United States, where he has the right to criticize his government, and the hellish nightmare of the Third Reich, where he would have been consigned to a camp, or worse, for such criticism.

He is not alone.

The mainstream media have fastened on this issue like a junkyard dog on a T-bone and, by doing so, have become a larger part of the story than any perceived abuse ever was.

There has been abuse by all sides in every war in which we have been involved. The difference now is the media, alert 24/7 to report any news in the worst possible light, all because of their raw hatred of George W. Bush.

While equating Alberto Gonzales to Heinrich Himmler, DiGiulio neglected to mention the similarity between the media and another famous Nazi. Josef Goebbels would easily recognize what’s going on: propaganda.

Most of the world is watching us closely and hoping that this willful narrow-mindedness takes over and drags our country down to their level.

Two quotes fit well here, both from Zell Miller’s speech at the Republican convention last year. To the media: “It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.”

To Mr. DiGiulio: “It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.”

Michael LeBlanc, East Wilton

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