Letter: American citizens can’t trust White House

Monday, July 23, 2007 | 7:08 a.m.

In response to Terry Cox's July 19 letter - "Bush respects, fears no one except Cheney" - Cheney and the Bush administration should be in fear of the American citizenry. Now with further regard to Mark Ferraro's July 20 letter - "Bush, Cheney have been a disaster" - disaster is an understatement, particularly when everything they have touched or tried to do, as he astutely made the point, has failed.

The fact that thousands of Americans are dying because of the mess Bush (Cheney) has gotten us into is the benchmark statement for capital crime.

Now after many weeks of reading the angry letters and the readers' responses to them in the Las Vegas Sun, and after weeks of contemplation about the Bush-Cheney disinformation strategies, more and more I asked myself how can this be allowed? I was reluctant, of course, to express my viewpoint on the matter of capital crimes.

The letters, day after day, characterized the breach of trust - to have the president of the United States commute the prison sentence of a jury-convicted felon, who happened to be the chief of staff for the vice president of the United States, is the ultimate undermining of our American system of justice.

Truth is the true and actual state of a matter, the indisputable fact. Quite frankly that is not the principle of this executive branch for the administration of our federal government. Trust is what we, the people, must have in our reliance on the integrity of our government; the uncompromising adherence to moral and ethical principles, soundness of moral character: honesty.

We have a problem with "truth" and "trust" in our government. The readers' response in the letters to the editor is synonymous with the citizenry of America. Impeach Bush-Cheney. What do you think?

Victor Lyons, Las Vegas