Mr. Juve was right, stop painting rosy picture of our wars in Asia

To the editor,

Thank you Lynn Rudman Chong for your letter supporting Richard Juve, who in my opinion was treated with great disrespect here in Meredith at the 9/11 gathering. I do not know Mr. Juve that well, but with what I have learned about him over the years through the news media, he is one to step up to the plate and speak out when he feels an injustice is being carried out.

Our country is no longer the country that we knew when we were growing up and the country that our parents generation fought for in WWII. We have become a country of self-centered, money making entrepreneurs, who have one goal and one goal alone and that is their own personal wealth. This is evidenced throughout this country as jobs have been lost to many while their jobs were sent overseas to cheaper labor and increased wealth to the wealthiest Americans. Homes and propertys are destroyed as these sick individuals are allowed to run over those who get in the way of their profit making endeavors. America now believes that it has the right to go beyond it's shores and destroy and take whatever resources other countries have. Our children are being brought up to be sent into harms way to help pave the way for these demented individuals to continue their pursuit of "Their American Dream", at the expense of everyone but themselves.

Mr. Juve is so right about the Saudi's. It has been proven that Bush ordered planes to be provided to the bin Laden family to leave our country after the 9/11 attack in New York, along with an armed escort to ensure their safety. If Mr. Juve had been a Republican who had stood there at the podium here in Meredith and chose that particular ceremony to express his thoughts and "Rant and Rave" as has been described so disrespectfully of Mr. Juve, not a sound would have been heard of displeasure. This is America Mr. King and Mr. Kennely, not everyone thinks just like you. Stop trying to paint this rosy picture about Iraq and Afghanistan. Bring our troops home and stop trying to make every country in the world think just like we do. They have rights too.

Carolyn Pillsbury

Meredith