Warped Responsibility
Dear Editor:
President Bush has responded to the firings at CBS News, caused by the sloppy journalism that questioned his National Guard service, by stating, ”CBS said they would act. They did. And I hope their actions are such that this doesn’t happen again.” Well said. But strange coming from a man who got everything wrong about going to war with Iraq and did nothing about getting rid of the people who were just as sloppy and responsible for that farce.
Look at the record: George Tenet, head of the CIA, who assured the president that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Fired? No, he received a graceful retirement and the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, who approved a battle plan for a war that shows no sign of ending. Fired? No, he stays in the Cabinet; Condi Rice, National Security Advisor, who advised the president to tell the world of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program when it had none. Fired? No, she is nominated to be Secretary of State; Vice President Cheney, who to this day has insisted that sooner or later WMD would be found and that there was a link between Saddam Husssein and Osama bin Laden. Fired? No, he stayed on the ticket and is a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Mr. Bush’s view on the firings at CBS once again proves that others should do what he will not. Responsibility is evidently not his responsibility.
What amazes me is the ability of the majority of Americans who voted in the last election to accept this poor performance and warped view of responsibility, and allow more and more of our youth to be killed and maimed in a pre-emptive war that never should have been. All this just because a man’s undefined “moral values”, suddenly found religiosity, and phony aw-shucks down home appearance is the act they want to see and hear.
President Bush has responded to the firings at CBS News, caused by the sloppy journalism that questioned his National Guard service, by stating, ”CBS said they would act. They did. And I hope their actions are such that this doesn’t happen again.” Well said. But strange coming from a man who got everything wrong about going to war with Iraq and did nothing about getting rid of the people who were just as sloppy and responsible for that farce.
Look at the record: George Tenet, head of the CIA, who assured the president that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Fired? No, he received a graceful retirement and the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, who approved a battle plan for a war that shows no sign of ending. Fired? No, he stays in the Cabinet; Condi Rice, National Security Advisor, who advised the president to tell the world of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program when it had none. Fired? No, she is nominated to be Secretary of State; Vice President Cheney, who to this day has insisted that sooner or later WMD would be found and that there was a link between Saddam Husssein and Osama bin Laden. Fired? No, he stayed on the ticket and is a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Mr. Bush’s view on the firings at CBS once again proves that others should do what he will not. Responsibility is evidently not his responsibility.
What amazes me is the ability of the majority of Americans who voted in the last election to accept this poor performance and warped view of responsibility, and allow more and more of our youth to be killed and maimed in a pre-emptive war that never should have been. All this just because a man’s undefined “moral values”, suddenly found religiosity, and phony aw-shucks down home appearance is the act they want to see and hear.
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 11:18 AM
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