Bush should explain his critiques of Israel

We ask you, Mr. President, to explain to the American people why sending U.S. troops across the globe to fight Islamic terror and conducting regime changes is a right only you possess.

Indeed, Saddam was evil, but did he commit mass murder and launch over 18,000 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 2000? No! Yet, Israel is suffered 1000's of casualties and over 18,000 terrorist attacks and the Administration has only criticism for Israel!

With murderers lurking only nine miles away, Israel must attack with impunity. In fact, if anyone has a right to attack, it is Israel. Mr. President, your critique of Israel is unjustifiable and unexplainable.

Mark Alan
Los Angeles

Bush is putting public health in jeopardy

The Bush Administration is conducting a quiet war on the American public through the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Using this little known executive office department, the White House has withdrawn or watered down over 100 of life and health saving regulations from the agendas of the EPA, OSHA, FDA and the National Transportation Safety Board.

People would be concerned and appalled if the administration were repealing criminal laws and letting felons go unpunished for lack of resources. The suffering from street crime is staggering: 20,000 lives and 850,000 injuries annually. Compare this to the human costs of safety violations and environmental damage: 14,000 workers die in preventable accidents each year, 100,000 workers die from diseases contracted from their work, 2 million workers are injured because of unsafe working conditions, over 40,000 people die annually in traffic accidents, 140,000 persons die each year from air pollution alone, and defective merchandise causes 30,000 deaths and 20 million serious injuries each year. As Bush kills new regulations and hobbles

enforcement efforts of our regulatory agencies, he is choosing theoretical efficiencies for business over the very real lives and health of the American people.

Michael Bryan
Law Student

Bursar's office needs a lesson in geography

When I used the Web to pay my tuition, I noticed that the country code for Taiwan is written as Taiwan, Province of China. As a Taiwanese, I felt deeply insulted, so I wrote an e-mail to ask the Bursar's Office to correct it to Taiwan on June 10. The Bursar's Office promised me that they would check this as soon as possible. A week has past, and nothing has been done. Therefore, I feel that it is necessary to express my concern on this issue.

Taiwan, just like the U.S. or Canada, is an independent democratic country. No one can deny this reality. Taiwan has a population of 21 million people, is the 15th biggest economy in the world and directly votes for the president. My country has never been ruled by the Communist Chinese government any single day, though China has been claiming Taiwan as part of its territory and threatening Taiwan with its overwhelming military power. I believe that most of you would feel humiliated if the country code for the U.S. is purposely or wrongly put as America, A State of Britain; or America, A State of Russia.

I do not know why it takes the Bursar's Office such a long time to correct a small entry of this student link after numbers of Taiwanese students protested to them. As a computer science student, I know it only takes a few minutes to fix this. If the Web master of Web pay needs more than a week to do this easy job, then I would suggest the Bursar's Office find someone else to do it.

Finally, I would like to ask the Bursar's Office delete this insulting phrase from Web pay as soon as possible, and explain why you hesitated to put the correct country code for Taiwan.

Kelly Hsu
Computer Science/Senior