The following is a letter to the editor that I submitted to the Richmond Times Dispatch on October 1, 2004 and was published on October 8. Editor, Times Dispatch: John Kerry feels that the war on terror should be treated as a law enforcement operation where America will not act preemptively but will only defend itself after an attack (presumably, with the appropriate resolutions passed by the UN). When he has not been criticizing Iraq’s interim prime minister and other US allies as “puppets”, Kerry talks about how he will get us out of Iraq – not how to win, but how to “get out”. Richard Holbrooke, a former US diplomat at the UN, is a close advisor of the Kerry campaign and recently stated that Iraq is “worse than Vietnam”. George Bush is a big-government conservative who has not fought the Islamists as aggressively as he should. However, the stigma of Vietnam has paralyzed the left. They cannot be trusted to fight at all. During the 1972 presidential campaign, Ayn Rand wrote: “The choice is between a flawed candidate representing Western civilization—and the perfect candidate of its primordial enemies. If there were some campaign organization called ‘Anti-Nixonites for Nixon,’ it would name my position. The worst thing said about Nixon is that he cannot be trusted, which is true: he cannot be trusted to save this country. But one thing is certain: McGovern can be trusted to destroy it.” If you substitute “Bush” for Nixon and “Kerry” for McGovern, Miss Rand’s wisdom rings true today. I am an “Anti-Bushite for Bush.” -Bob Murphy. Richmond