Math ‘mistakes’ alleged in column on Mideast wars 

In (Carl) Mumpower’s recent column — “Vets are fast becoming another selfish interest group” — there are mistakes.

He said that “thanks to ill-advised military adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan…. over the past five years.”

Well, yes, these wars were ill-advised, but it has been much longer than five years. The war on Afghanistan is 13 years old now, and the war on Iraq was (technically) from 2003 to 2011.

I say “technically” because we have recently started bombing them again. 

So, Mr. Mumpower either cannot subtract or he does not know recent history, which is interesting because if my memory serves correctly, he was very much a supporter of both ill-advised wars and even stated that anti-war protests should stop once the invasion of Iraq commenced.

And those statements convinced me that Mr. Mumpower is not much of a supporter of the First Amendment of our Constitution.

Who would Photoshop City Hall with a swastika?

I happened to read the Asheville Daily Planet today (Nov. 11) and noticed the article about the flag.

I have to agree with Dr. Carl Mumpower, it is, indeed, Hitler all over again.

For the ones under you who do not know who Adolf Hitler was, he was a right-winged politician who hated same-sex-oriented people, people who were not Christian (Jews, for example).

He draped public buildings with the Nazi swastika.

He basically hated everybody who was not like him and who did not follow his (often weird ) state of mind.

And he also had his own doctor, Doctor Mengele...

So yes, Mr. Mumpower, you are absolutely right, you are indeed just like Hitler ....

And it is not because some narrowminded person Photoshops City Hall, that a newspaper has to follow him in his bigotry by printing it in that same newspaper.