Letter: Bush needs to admit the truth

Sunday, April 2, 2006 | 7:22 a.m.

How can our commander-in-chief accuse the media of not telling the whole story in Iraq when his administration won't allow photos of the dead returning to Dover Air Force Base?

Why can't President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney simply stand in front of a microphone and admit that the generals and advisers who warned them up front that securing the peace in Iraq would take at least 500,000 soldiers (and who were sent packing) were, guess what, right?

And why does the FBI still employ the two inept, negligent bureaucrats who failed to act on tips brought to them by two separate agents who were on the trail of the impending 9/11 horror? Lesser incompetence would earn them a visit to a firing squad in some countries.

Furthermore, why is our satellite technology and high-altitude, aircraft-based photography capabilities unable to (or not being used to) do a better job detecting the placement of IEDs along Iraq's roadways? And remember, we had man-detecting infrared capabilities back in Vietnam, so "they're doing it at night" may be true but it's no excuse.

Maybe the geniuses who have figured out how to make a Mazda self-drive to a Jack-In-The-Box should be hired by our military to better use our satellites.

Bob Coffman, Las Vegas