Goooood Morning Pakistan

Dear editor:

During the Vietnam War the United States expanded the fighting and bombing to Cambodia. The government kept it a secret from the American public, the Congress and the Media, and hid the financing for this illegal action from everyone. Nothing had been legally authorized, and the executive branch of our government pulled a curtain over their actions until that cover was blown and the bombing stopped.

Hidden actions such as this are not happening today thanks to our hard working media following the war, but with American Special Forces “advising and training” Pakistani forces it leads one to wonder how many additional countries President Bush intends to spread his war to, without specific permission from Congress. Yes, it may be necessary to fight Al-Queda there now, but who authorized the President to do so? There are now 50 such advisors in Pakistan and it looks like we are going to add another 50. Isn’t this how Vietnam started? It’s called slowly drowning.

And by the way, wouldn’t this all (Iraq and Pakistan) not have been necessary if the President had put a full continuous push with enough forces into searching out Osama ben Laden in Afghanistan? Instead he chose to pull back, leave the fight to Afghani troops, and once again repeated the mistake and sent not enough troops into Iraq. Now he talks about the war on terror and how we can’t ignore Pakistan. Doesn’t he realize that it was all from his bad judgment and personal bias against Iraq and its leader? Doesn’t he see the blunders that VP Cheney and Sect. of Defense Rumsfeld pulled to get an inexperienced, unqualified man to follow? Where does it all end? When will he admit responsibility for almost 3,900 American troop deaths and over 25,000 wounded? And that’s just in Iraq. It’s time for him to be held accountable, and not just a mea-culpa.