Harley Sorenson's column in the San Francisco Chronicle wove in a couple of letters which deserve to be individually noted. Here's the second.

A second e-mailer, who said he was from Europe, had an unusual point of view: He is a liberal happy that Bush won reelection. Read on:

"As I am against the American empire, I am happy that George W. Bush won the election, whatever frauds there might have been.

"The U.S. seems to be going the same way the U.S.S.R. did. If, hopefully Bush will be followed by someone like Perle or Cheney, it will not take very long.

"It is only sad to see all the ones tortured and murdered in Iraq, Palestine and other places, but hopefully the U.S. regime will attack Iran and Syria, so the empire can fall in less then a decade."