Give it a chance????

Dear editor:

In defense of his “new way forward” and his troop surge, President Bush is asking the Congress and the nation to “give it a chance”. He and his administration, especially the vice-president, have stated that anyone who opposes this action is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They also claim that getting out of Iraq will cause a catastrophe. What they leave out is the fact that they caused it by invading and occupying.

Let’s see. In actuality he is following the advice of generals he fired, is relying on an Iraqi leader he can’t trust, and launching a plan he really can’t explain. All he asks for is our confidence, based upon his role as “the decider.”

This from the president who based his pre-emptive attack on Iraq: on “intelligence” (fabricated to reflect his goals) that Iraq had WMDs, and we couldn’t wait for a mushroom cloud over our country to question cost; bought tubing for atomic weapons, tried to buy “yellow cake” from Africa for uranium enrichment; claimed that there was a meeting between al-Queda and Osama ben Laden, and “Mission Accomplished”. His vice-president has had his whoppers too, especially when he declared the insurgency was in its “last throes” and time would show that the WMDs existed. Not one has shown up after almost four years of inspecting, searching and fighting. For this we are supposed to show confidence? We are supposed to trust him?

Face it. The horrible position that the United States, and the rest of the Western world is in, is due mainly (not exclusively) to his half truths, his obstinacy, his arrogance, and his decisions as the “decider”. He has taken a poor situation that existed before the invasion, and turned it into a growing, horrendous, dangerous world problem.

Of course this has no connection whatsoever with the invasion of Afghanistan which harbored the base for the terrorists of 9/11. That situation was never finished and the Taliban is once again on the rise in that country.

How many Americans have to die in support of HIS war? How many hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent in order to try to solve a sectarian situation that has existed for over a thousand years, with no solution in sight no matter what we do today, next month or twenty-five years from now. Our actions, deaths, and money will not put an end to that civil war, and the dangers spreading throughout that region of the world.

Emperor Bush Opens Our Mail

This is a scary item from the Washington Post. It should enrage all Americans. He has learned nothing from the election last year.
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Bush Claims Right to Open Mail
Thursday, January 4, 2007

The New York Daily News today reports on a signing statement President Bush quietly issued two weeks ago, in which he asserts his right to open mail without a warrant. "The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a 'signing statement' that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

"That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it. . . ."Most of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act deals with mundane reform measures. But it also explicitly reinforced protections of first-class mail from searches without a court's approval."
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Of course none of this means anything to Mr. Bush, who evidently feels that the Bill of Rights and laws passed by the United States Congress do not apply to anything he wants to do.