' Given the horrific reality of what the GOP is now doing to America and the world, we should be profoundly thankful that the public is uneasy. If Team Bush objects to being compared with the Nazi elite, perhaps it should act less like it.

' Too much sad history has been told over the centuries by those who failed to speak plainly and forcefully when the times demanded it.

' What the Republicans are doing to America and the world has been seen before. And, it's been stopped before, but only by facing reality.  '

I certainly agree with you on "outing" the Bush administration for what it is.

I also believe that nothing will be accomplished in the "war on terrorism" unless the Likud is similarly "outed", for it is as similar to the "Nazi elite" as the Bush administration is.

It is now fashionable to draw the parallels that Senator Byrd has drawn, but the Likud is still protected by the "criticize Israel and you are an anti-Semite and comparable to the Nazi elite" tonic.

It is the Likud, not its critics that are comparable to the Nazis, and folks like yourselves, able to affect the public debate, must make that point as strongly.

As long as the government of Israel is in the hands of the Likud Palestinians will be the object of their genocidal warfare and Israelis and Americans will be the victims of terrorists.

The Likud is supported by the government of the United States. That support must end for their genocidal war to end. That support cannot end until folks like yourselves "speak plainly and forcefully" against it.

The times demand it.