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Udall, vote against impeachment? No!

Rep. Tom Udall's vote on HR 333, the impeachment resolution, makes us feel like the kid whose sports hero was caught in a scandal. With that kid, we're crying, "Say it ain't so, Tom! So it ain't so!"

Unfortunately, we are forced to existentially acknowledge that it is so, that Udall not only failed to co-sponsor the resolution but also voted against it.

But, fortunately, it isn't too late for Udall to redeem himself. He can take leadership to press to get the impeachment resolution out of committee and vote for it. The majority of Americans would like him to do this.

I just returned from Turkmenistan, where people are trembling in fear that the United States will nuke Iran and that they, their children and their grandchildren will be in the fallout path.

I had a conversation with Murad Nazarov, Turkmen ambassador to Iran. He is pessimistic regarding Iran. He said the president of Iran is irresponsible, but implied that that shouldn't sentence the Iranians to destruction by an American invasion. We have a highly irresponsible president, too. Should we be sentenced to a nuclear strike for this unfortunate circumstance?

I hope Udall is not going to take our support for granted and appeal for the votes of the far right by continuing to condone the illegal and immoral war in Iraq and the invasion of Iran. I hope Udall will not be seduced into continuing to support human sacrifice to the great god Power. Remember the biblical quotation, "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

I am writing on my own behalf and that of the Albuquerque Chapter of Veterans for Peace. We, like Udall, each took an oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. We are honoring that oath. We want to hold accountable the people in Washington, domestic enemies who are decimating our Constitution - the very foundation of America's uniqueness.

Please don't wait until after Iran is, like Iraq, destroyed. Don't eventually resort to the whiny plea: I didn't know; if I had known what I know now, I would have done differently. It's Udall's business to know.

Dennis Kucinich knows. Gary Trudeau, "Doonesbury" cartoonist, knows. Writers for the Nation know. Demonstrators on the street and members of the New Mexico Democratic Central Committee know.

Udall pays himself big bucks from our tax money, and it's his business to know. And it's his business to acknowledge that the continental United States is not threatened by Iran. Of course, if we continue the naval buildup in the strait, eventually there will be an incident.

We are not going to be taken for granted any longer. We demand that Udall listen. If Udall insists on protecting the criminal regime and its illegal, immoral wars, he has lost the support of patriot protectors of the American Constitution.

Sally-Alice Thompson

Corresponding secretary

Albuquerque chapter,

Veterans for Peace

Albuquerque

$260,000 for new APS supe? No way

(Re: "Next APS leader's super salary: $260,000," Tribune, Nov. 13.)

I am totally outraged at the decision to offer our next Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent a $260,000 salary package. The money should be going to our schools, teachers and principals - not to a bloated and overpaid administrative bureaucracy.

It makes absolutely no sense, in light of how our city councilors, our mayor, our state officers, our U.S. senators and representatives, and on and on, are compensated.

How can the Board of Education justify such a terrible decision? Does it honestly believe that the talent, education and skills to manage APS are not available at a much lower cost?

Although I have always supported APS funding requests, if this ridiculous offer proceeds, I, for one, will turn down any further school requests of any kind for any kind of funds, and I will do my best to persuade everyone who will listen to do the same.

The school board needs to look for better advice than what it got from its "search consultant."

Phil Brubaker

Albuquerque