Intense bombing of Baghdad would be insane

To the editor:

I just read that the plan for invading Iraq starts with dropping more bombs on Baghdad in two days than were dropped in the whole Gulf War. This is a densely populated area, and low-end estimates are that 500,000 innocent Iraqis will die. This is insane. This is not a war. It's a massacre. Iraq has done nothing to the United States, and Saddam Hussein is under control. How can we say we're a Christian nation? Does anybody really think this will make us safer from terrorists in the long run? How can we say we're helping the Iraqi people when we're bombing them?

EDWIN BLANTON

Cape Girardeau