Letter: President has not lived up to his promises

Monday, Oct. 2, 2006 | 7:37 a.m.

Trapped in Iraq, George W. Bush and his administration headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have got us mired down in an unwinnable war.

A war sold to the world by the use of smoke and mirrors, cherry-picked intelligence and conniving by nefarious scoundrels with inside passes to the White House like Ahmed Chalabi. And undoubtedly supported by those who met with Cheney to secretly establish the nation's energy policy and who had lustful eyes on the Iraqi oil reserves.

Bush stubbornly maintains he knows best while screaming that he will stay the course and not be a cut-and-runner. We are going to be mired down in Iraq for generations, with the lifeblood of America being drained more each day. The cost of the human toll, both of Iraqis and Americans, continues to mount. The economic costs have skyrocketed and our national debt continues to balloon. All reports indicate that our military is being depleted daily.

This raises the question, with China sitting on the sidelines, how would the USA fare in a war with a major power?

I, for one, feel that George W. Bush has no conscience. He proclaimed he was a "compassionate conservative." But I have yet to see any compassion. He claimed he was a uniter, not a divider. But I have seen nothing but divisiveness emanating from the White House. He is no deep thinker and I question his leadership skills.

Where is Bush's and his administration's plan to win the war and get us out of this entangled mess?

Ray Harbert, Las Vegas