An 80 plus year old veteran of two wars views Iraq's insurgency as freedom fighters and here is why.

Stanley O. Buckmaster of Bellingham, Washington minced no words in his letter published in the August 10 Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

"Having survived an unjustified war and more than four years of occupation, I could not view any insurgent organization as just anything except `freedom fighters', just as we classified the French underground during world war Two when it resisted the German occupation of their country.  I am neither opposed to nor in favor of impeaching George Bush but I would like very much to see him tried as a war criminal (which he obviously is)."

David P. Barash, Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, in a column appearing in the Seattle Times August 10, makes some interesting observations regarding why Congress has failed to call a halt to Bush's Iraq War.  He puts it this way: