Letter: Three strikes — Bush should be out
Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 | 8:57 a.m.
Prior to 9/11 the administration had specific warnings about the planned attack. But Bush ran, spending an unprecedented entire summer away from Washington, ducking danger. No surprise. He'd run before, into the Texas Air National Guard, playing pilot. Way too precious for combat. But while his head was in the sand, the terrorists struck. Over 3,000 of us died, victims of scandalous incompetence.
Then came Iraq, with the lies about weapons of mass destruction and terrorist connections, and the big contracts for Halliburton. Many tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in this illegal and immoral war, as have almost 2,000 of our troops. Also, thousands of troops have been wounded, many of them seriously. The war is costing nearly $6 billion a month, enough to build levees, combat hunger and research myriad killer diseases.
Then came Hurricane Katrina. Bush had warnings, specific and particular, about the dangers. But, like 9/11, he stuck his head in the sand. As before, civilians died because of his ineptness. To save ourselves from further disasters we need to dump the Democrats and Republicans and elect a labor government.
Bill Perdue Las Vegas
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