I might for one second listen to Doug Morris' claim in his letter ("U.S. should re-evaluate its actions as 'terrorist'" Wed., Nov. 17) that the United States is causing atrocities in Iraq, if I had any evidence that he has also made the same statements about Islamic terrorists and their atrocities. Of course, he has not nor has any of his hate-America ilk. These people will run and proclaim the United States as the most evil force on the planet but refuse to recognize the horror that Islamic terrorism has wrought on this country and throughout the world. Not once will you hear Morris decry the taking of hostages, filming their cries for mercy and then cutting off their heads. You hear nothing of mass graves, rapes, severed limbs nor any mention of the 3,000 of his own countrymen who were killed on Sept. 11. This is all ignored in the delusional world Morris creates to paint the United States as the source of evil in the world. The United States did not start this war; it was brought to us by a fanatical enemy who hates our way of life. We have been attacked for years by terrorist bombings at the Khobar Towers, USS Cole, the World Trade Center in 1993 and culminating in the attacks of Sept. 11. We did not choose this war, and we have no choice but to fight back. If Iraqis must die as unfortunate collateral damage in order to secure the future of the United States, than so be it.