Arrogance
Dear Editor:
In an interview aboard Air Force One last week, Mr. Bush stated that the public’s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath. “We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections. The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.”
What unmitigated, bald faced arrogance and gall. Is that what he tells the families of the over 1,300 American members of the armed forces that were killed in Iraq? Or what about the tens of thousands of Americans maimed in the war’s hostilities? Or what about the billions of dollars that have been, and will continue to be, spent because of those mistakes and misjudgments? All this is not accountable because the American people “chose me?”
Does this mean that Adolph Hitler was not guilty for the atrocities of the Second World War because he was legally elected (chosen) by the German people? Does this mean that the murderer, who watches a wrongly convicted man go to the electric chair, is now innocent because the people “chose” the wrong person?
What ever happened to the difference between right and wrong? Is this “moral leadership”? Is this truly a religious man? Does he really believe that God, who he refers to all the time, does not hold him accountable? How are we now to trust his judgment and word on anything?
In an interview aboard Air Force One last week, Mr. Bush stated that the public’s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath. “We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections. The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.”
What unmitigated, bald faced arrogance and gall. Is that what he tells the families of the over 1,300 American members of the armed forces that were killed in Iraq? Or what about the tens of thousands of Americans maimed in the war’s hostilities? Or what about the billions of dollars that have been, and will continue to be, spent because of those mistakes and misjudgments? All this is not accountable because the American people “chose me?”
Does this mean that Adolph Hitler was not guilty for the atrocities of the Second World War because he was legally elected (chosen) by the German people? Does this mean that the murderer, who watches a wrongly convicted man go to the electric chair, is now innocent because the people “chose” the wrong person?
What ever happened to the difference between right and wrong? Is this “moral leadership”? Is this truly a religious man? Does he really believe that God, who he refers to all the time, does not hold him accountable? How are we now to trust his judgment and word on anything?
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 8:52 AM
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