At our regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 19, with a quorum present, we the members of Colin Hyde Post No. 172 of the American Legion voted unanimously to support a continued military housing presence on Bainbridge Island. Bainbridge will continue to enjoy the diversity that Navy families bring to an increasingly upscale, urban and predominately white community. Gadhafi responded by blowing an airliner filled with innocent passengers out of the sky over Scotland in 1988.
Terrorists generally strike at innocent citizens.
We've been clobbering Iraq's infrastructure for 10 years, and the leadership there is untouched, while the civilian population suffers. Hackworth's plan would only draw a lot of fire on our non-combatants, and not punish the terrorists. In the past months of fighting in Israel, the number of Palestinians killed in the fighting has not been published. I can only get the real numbers by reading the London Times on the Internet. When you write about the Oklahoma City bombing the numbers are exact to include the number of children killed.