Pentagon is watching

Re “Pentagon May Be Tracking

Activists,” Dec. 14

I am grateful to The Times for warning me that I may be in serious trouble. The Pentagon is apparently collecting information on Americans who oppose the Iraq war, and gosh, I think I fit the description.

As the Pentagon probably knows by this time, I borrow books from the library explaining America’s real (as opposed to professed) reasons for pursuing our confused and largely dishonest objectives in Iraq -- at a cost of thousands of Iraqi and American lives. Listen, you guys, if you’re going to come and get me, you better hurry: I’m going to be 86 in a few minutes.

JUDITH BAILEY

Woodland Hills