Undone by a Simple, Age-Old Crime

Martha Stewart has now been sentenced to serve prison time and is being hung out as an example, which is correct. But we must remember the reason for her downfall was not lying to investigators or unlawfully selling her ImClone stock. Her crime was a very simple one -- greed!

Jack Wolf

Westwood

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How come Stewart gets five months for lying to federal agents, yet President Bush has never been charged or tried for lying to the world about Iraq.

The financial costs of Stewart’s discretion versus Bush’s wrongful investment in this ongoing war, both monetarily and in thousands of innocent lives, is beyond compare.

David Lynn

Wauna, Wash.

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Unlike Stewart, I must admit my guilt. I am guilty of taking a perverse bit of pleasure out of watching the wheels of justice slowly grind their way over a defiant Stewart. Why? Because like most Americans I recognize that there are two separate and unequal legal systems in the United States, one for the rich and one for the rest of us.

But on those bittersweet occasions when one of the elite can’t beat the system, I’m inclined to sit back in my worn recliner while a smug smile creeps across my face.

Kevin K. VanGundy

Grand Junction, Colo.