Re "Bush Warns of Vetoes Over Abortion Issue" (news article, May 4):

President Bush has threatened to veto "any measures that 'allow taxpayer dollars to be used for the destruction of human life.' "

You did not note the irony of such a threat from a man who pursues the destruction of human life relentlessly in Iraq.

Why shouldn't his sound-bite rationale apply equally to war financing?

Chase Chiasson
Boston, May 4, 2007