Pubdate: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 Source: Columbia Daily Tribune (MO) Copyright: 2004 Columbia Daily Tribune Contact: http://www.columbiatribune.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/91 Note: Prints the street address of LTE writers. Author: Kirk Muse Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine) IF ROLES WERE REVERSED, WE WOULDN'T SEE WAR AS JUSTIFIED *Editor, the Tribune:* I'm writing about the thoughtful Open Column by Henry Liu published Dec. 1: "War in Iraq is not justified because Bush instigated it." I'd like to add that none of bombs we have dropped on Iraq hit Saddam Hussein. Instead, our bombs and bullets have killed and maimed Iraqi men, women, children and babies who have done us no harm. To most Muslims, the only legitimate laws are made by God. The Iraqi citizens did not ask for and do not want our form of "democracy." How would we react if another country invaded the United States and attempted to install its form of government and its religious values upon us? Would our attitude change if the invaders called themselves "liberators"? I don't think so. How would we react if another country invaded the United States and sprayed our tobacco fields with poisons because our tobacco products were killing some of that country's citizens? Yet this is exactly what we are doing to the Colombian cocaine fields. Kirk Muse Mesa, Ariz.