I read with no small surprise Clay Miller’s summary of the growing protests and disillusionment to the quagmire that is administration’s illegal war with Iraq.

Mr. Miller, I recall, was the same levelheaded fellow who pulled his car up onto the curb at the intersection of Highway 20 and Main Street in Coupeville when he thought he saw a protestor with an American flag. After endangering several, no longer nimble, elderly people there, he then proceeded to park his car in the busy intersection, while he wrestled away the flag from the disabled woman carrying it. He then proceeded to drive away with the rather determined woman draped over the hood of his car. Police were called and coolheaded Clay was cited for reckless endangerment. What he mistook for “Old Glory” was actually a peace flag with the peace symbol clearly emblazoned upon it.

His “Sound Off” piece (News-Times, Feb. 10) is fraught with the same type of ill conceived ideations. He states that “every liberal politician” knew Saddam was a threat. He is apparently unaware that our own politicians clearly did not hold that view. It is a matter of record our own Rep. Rick Larsen and Sen. Patty Murray were among those who voted against the war! Equally unfounded is his equating of the American Revolution with Iraq disaster! I won’t dignify his diatribe further by pointing out his other exceptional misconceptions, suffice to say that in evaluating the wisdom of Mr. Miller’s assessment of people, history, world events, etc., one ought to consider his rather linear and subjective interpretation of reality.

Dianne Deseck-Piazzon

Coupeville