Donald Trump and maga Republicans are enabling war crimes and must be held accountable with Nuremburg trials

Echo opinion letter published in the Virginian Pilot newspaper

Donald Trump posted a message on his (Fake ❗)Truth Social threatening Iran with what can be described as civilization genocide: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” No American president in history has ever uttered anything even vaguely comparable. Even in the light of its past misdeeds, Iran has done nothing to warrant such shocking bombast, much less unilateral destructive action against a nation of 93 million people. Fortunately, at least for now, Trump backed away from his apocalyptic threat. (Nevertheless, Trump has not abandoned these destructive and dangerously crazy notions.  Rumors are he is in conflict with senior officers in the Pentagon who are upholding the Uniform Code of Military Justice and not willing to follow illegal orders.)

Iran posed no material threat to the U.S. before Trump, in concert with Israel, started a war with that nation. So far the monthlong attacks have failed to achieve any of its stated objectives, including regime change, halting Iran’s nuclear program, exhausting its weapons stockpile, loosening its grip on the Strait of Hormuz or ending its ability to attack other nations.

If his threat held any actual intent, then shame on him. If the American public views his threat as somehow acceptable or within bounds, then shame on us.

Robert Spitzer, James City County,Virginia 

Antivaxxers are not pro-life- what are they thinking?

Certainly makes no sense to me, but conservatives who obsess about being pro-life and who turn toxic in opposition to abortion are completely deaf about how COVID vaccines save lives. Even the risk of death cannot bring them to realize how vaccines save lives.

Dick Farrel, a longtime conservative radio host based in Palm Beach County, Florida, who was skeptical of the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and refused to get vaccinated, has died of COVID-19.

COVID vaccine confidence is the real "pro-life" health policy.

Echo opinion letter published in the Virginia Gazette

Is it just a coincidence that the same people who support Trump are now catching COVID-19 at a stunning rate because they refuse to get a shot?

How can any intelligent citizen of this country vote for a man who lied over 30,000 times in four years? Trump’s mismanagement of COVID has cost at least half of the COVID deaths.

How can any responsible citizen refuse to get a couple of shots to best protect his fellow citizens? If they aren’t idiots, then they are lazy for not informing themselves better.

The irony is that those same people may be committing suicide.

Zan Cartwright,  James City County, Virginia