Letter: Republicans jump ship to save selves

Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006 | 8:02 a.m.

As the midterm elections get closer, more and more Republican politicians are jumping ship and criticizing the president for his mishandling of the war in Iraq. What hypocrisy!

After blindly supporting George Bush and the numerous failed initiatives of his administration for six years, these bootlickers suddenly discovered how bad the war is going only after their pink slips are being drawn up. Job security is the motivation. They think voters should overlook the fact that they stood behind George Bush 100 percent while he stripped America of world respect, emptied our treasury at the cost of our poor, and needlessly sacrificed thousands of young American troops because he didn't listen to the commanders of our armed forces about how the war should have been conducted.

These hypocrites didn't care much as the world watched Americans dying on worldwide television after a violent storm while our federal government, laden with ineptness due to cronyism, was so slow to act to save them.

Every senator or representative who is up for re-election this November and who has blindly supported the policies of the Bush administration should be swept from office. They can't tell right from wrong.

Phil Ventura, Las Vegas