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For once Michael Ramirez got it right (editorial cartoon, Commentary, May 16). In my suburban neighborhood I watch SUVs and high-powered trucks with single drivers breaking the speed limit driving up the hill, sucking down gas at a rate of probably 2 miles per gallon. For this, our nation has invaded a country on the flimsiest of grounds, squandered our international goodwill and caused the deaths of untold U.S. servicemen and -women as well as innocent Iraqis. Not to mention Colombia.
Alison M. Grimes
Yorba Linda
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