Why doesn't Mr. Suarez del Solar just cut to the chase and say that his son was stupid and that he died for nothing? That's basically what he is doing by involving himself in anti-Iraq war activism.
Well, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it was because if he did that he wouldn't be collecting many any more of those nice, fat, tax-free donations to that new peace activist "foundation" of his ... the one the underwrites those frequent "peace missions" of his to the Middle East ... the ones that appear to make up his primary "job" these days.
The lady who wrote that letter to the editor had the intestinal fortitude to publicly call him on what he's been up to for the last several months.