I have honestly had enough of people telling me how being bombed and slaughtered is in the best interests of the Iraqi people. Granted, these individuals do not represent the best of American society, but their closed-minded racist mentality is a shame for the American education system. Last Thursday, Matthew Clark ("Iraq war to benefit well-being of people" Thurs. Oct., 21) wrote that "Iraq is a war for humanity." However, before I had a chance to laugh, I realized he was serious. Is there not a limit to naiveté? I'd like to invite Clark to come with me to Baghdad next year and to tell that to some of the families of the innocent civilians killed in Iraq so far. Or perhaps I can take him to Palestine and introduce him to some of the parents whose children have been killed by Israeli bullets, funded by our government. Some of us Americans have been so brainwashed with this "patriotic" garbage that they ignore the blood on our hands and continue these acts of terror. If Clark wants a war of humanity, then he needs to wage it on his own self. This kind of mentality, which has led to so much evil in the past, is the true enemy of humanity. Such racism has in the past been used to justify the extermination of the American Indian, the enslavement of the black, and the holocaust of the Jew. Today, it is a shame to see us, at the peak of world civilization, harboring the notion that being a Muslim makes one inferior to everyone else, "fair game" for oppression and "liberation." Such a mentality is not only offensive and disturbing, it is downright un-American.