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Agents of order and justice?

The editorial "The mailed fist... where necessary" (Friday) claims, "As agents of order and justice," we must apply "the mailed fist... in cold blood" as part of a "measured response" to the attacks last week in Fallujah.

Lest we forget, the United States attacked Iraq without provocation and now occupies it, a brutal, coldblooded act in itself. What order and justice are we agents for if we flaunt international law by invading a sovereign nation?

The analogy of a mailed fist is apt only if we are speaking of medieval retribution and not liberating the people of Iraq, which is what we were all told this war was all about. (Never mind those missing weapons of mass destruction.)

MARK FEEHAN

Washington

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