One letter writer questions whether clergymen have demanded that a politician who supported the war in Iraq be asked to confess his or her sins. I would remind the letter writer that prior to the US initiative in Iraq the brutalization of innocent men, women and children was commonplace, rape rooms were sanctified by the regime, and parents were routinely separated from their children to be slaughtered in anonymity. Innocents were pushed off buildings, shoved into acid baths, electrocuted, and tortured in ways that are unimaginable to the sane mind. Saddam Hussein's sons had plans to continue his reign of terror for generations to come. It's my hope that those American's who are so blatantly misinformed regarding the situation in Iraq prior to American intervention find a way to expand their sources of information, and their minds, in the coming year. Politicians who supported the Iraq effort have the moral high ground, misinformation and discombobulated thinking aside.