In recent weeks, we all have been treated to a never-ending cacophony of anti-American, Bush-hating vitriol by our ubiquitous anti-war protesters. They have every right to do so and we have the right to disagree.

The following has been said about President George W. Bush and our country: Bush is the biggest terrorist in the world, is a liar, belongs in jail, should be impeached, is an evil maniac, is committing blatant genocide, is like Hitler and because of his lies my son died. America is not worth dying for, terrorists who fight against our troops are “freedom fighters,” Iraq was not a terrorist country.

Most Americans, I am sure, find all of this despicable.

Words like this dishonor and besmirch our brave military men and women and the ultimate sacrifice of our fallen heroes.

These same words could have come out of the mouth of Osama bin Laden.

The anti-war protesters are trying to equate Vietnam with Iraq. But Vietnam was only a sideshow in the Cold War.

In Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, we find ourselves in a life-and-death struggle with Islamist totalitarianism we cannot afford to lose.

Just as this great country of ours has once saved the world from the scourge of Nazism and Communism so does America today stand between freedom, liberty, human decency and dignity and the terrorism of perverted Islamofascism, which if successful would sink mankind back into the darkest medieval barbarism the world has ever known.

Klaus D. Kuck, Lewiston