Re “Don’t Ask, Don’t Know, Don’t Help” (column, March 7):

Thomas L. Friedman gets it exactly right when he decries President Bush’s failure to call for widespread sacrifice in a time of war. The administration’s coming emergency financing request for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is a good place to change this.

Congress should tie approval of this request to an increase in the marginal tax rate for all Americans.

Scott A. Birnbaum
Boston, March 7, 2007

Note from KBJ: Progressives say that President Bush was hell-bent on invading Iraq and used any reason he could to justify it. Progressives are hell-bent on raising taxes and use any reason they can to justify it. There’s a war on? Raise taxes! We’re at peace? Raise taxes!