If top officials of the Bush administration ousted eight federal prosecutors for purely political motives, they should be held accountable. And the topic should receive some attention in the mass media.

But members of our armed forces continue to face death and dismemberment both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is this not a more important topic? Why aren't members of the House and Senate issuing meaningful condemnations of the individuals who misled them and the American people into this war? Shouldn't there be pressure to end this conflict immediately? Why do the daily deaths of two, three or six U.S. soldiers merit mention only on page eight of the newspapers and hardly any mention at all on most network news programs?

Further, the very people who misled Congress and the American people into the Iraq War are busily at work with plans to merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico in a North American Union by the year 2010. If not blocked, these plans will bring about a complete termination of our nation's hard-won independence. Why isn't this headline news? Why does it take the efforts of a few citizen organizations to bring information about this treachery to fellow Americans?

Network news and the print media have given the American people intense and nauseating coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith and its consequences. They are now dwelling on whether Congress has the right to investigate the firings of these federally appointed lawyers. But men are still dying in a war that, according to Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul and a growing number of others, ought to be ended immediately.

To date, very few in Congress have even mentioned the planned merger of the three nations. Isn't retention of U.S. sovereignty a worthy topic?

The flap over the prosecutors being fired isn't totally unimportant. But the title of Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing" comes to mind when so much attention is given to the prosecutor firings and less is given to numerous far more important issues. Perhaps the emphasis given the treatment accorded the prosecutors and the reluctance of Bush administration's key operatives to discuss the topic openly is serving a useful purpose.