In response to Josh Pontrelli's column ("London bombings should serve as a mirror to Iraq," July 8) let us remember that we did not bring Sept. 11 to ourselves. Let us not forget that terrorists don't need provocation or reason. They are Islamic fascists who are intent on killing us. The only ones to blame for the attacks in London are the terrorist thugs who carried out the bombings, not ourselves, President Bush or Prime Minister Blair.

Is Josh Pontrelli a terrorist sympathizer? In the opening of his editorial, he equated the terrorists to the innocent Londoners who were savagely killed; both being unnamed individuals. I hope that I am not the only one sickened by such prose.

As for Iraq, the U.S. and its coalition is fighting to protect and advance the country out of the throes of decades of brutal and repressive rule by Saddam Hussein who murdered men, women and children.

And now terrorists are murdering innocent Iraqis who are volunteering for the police and other professions to protect their country, not from us, but from the terrorists.

Wake up and stop trying to find a moral equivalence between the actions of terrorists and the United States. There is none.