In the Sun Journal May 4, there appeared a deeply moving and heartrending photo under the heading “Tragic moment.”

It shows an American soldier comforting and cradling a blood-soaked Iraqi child in his arms. The child later died. She was a victim of a terrorist car bombing.

Comes now Suzanne Dunham of Greenwood commenting on this picture with her letter of May 13 headlined “Chipped away.”

Here is the response: “What in God’s name are we doing in Iraq? What have we become? This innocent child epitomizes what is wrong and perverse with our invasion and continued presence in Iraq.”

She then continues, “It is up to the American people to say, Enough.'”

Has Ms. Dunham forgotten the horrific pictures showing the barbarism and atrocities of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen and the Islamist terrorists?

The pictures of gassed children, women and old men in Kurdish villages, the mass graves and unimaginable tortures in Saddam’s Iraq, the torn bodies of women, children and teenagers in Israel, the savage mass murder of innocent citizens in the Sept. 11 attack on our country by Islamist terrorists, the gruesome beheadings?

This is the face of the enemy we are fighting in Iraq.

Contrary to Ms. Dunham’s twisted logic, that great photo of an American GI comforting a bloodied and dying Iraqi child in his arms epitomizes everything that is right and good with our military men and women and our cause in liberated Iraq.

Dr. Klaus D. Kuck, Lewiston