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Letter: Superpower status lost by the president

Friday, May 19, 2006 | 7:23 a.m.

Most Americans, it appears, are delusional in thinking that we are the only superpower in the world. We used to be until Jan. 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office. Clinton turned over to Bush a budget surplus, which now is a staggering deficit that increases by the year.

Clinton turned over a government that defeated Milosevic in Kosovo during which not one single GI was killed in combat. Clinton inherited from George H.W. Bush a national debt of $4.2 trillion, which rose to $5.5 trillion when young Bush took over. Today young Bush's national debt is $8.9 trillion, or a 61 percent increase in just five years.

Republicans have always conned us into thinking they were anti-Communist, yet Bush is now borrowing billions from a communist country, China. Superpower borrowing money from communists?

Bush's superpower America cannot even win a war of choice against the tiny nation led by a pipsqueak dictator, Saddam, and now cannot defeat 10,000 insurgents.

If Americans still believe we are a superpower they should look carefully at which party took us off that pedestal.

James J. Poupard, Henderson

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