First, let me congratulate this paper for publishing reporter Douglas Wright's excellent, balanced presentation of local opinions about our country's pre-emptive initiation of war on Iraq and the endless continuation of the conflict. It's important that we hear what our neighbors feel about such important national issues, even in a regional paper. Getting news of the war from national media sources removes it from our personal experience, and allows us to dismiss it from the realm of our personal responsibility.

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