Letter: Bush, once again, compounds a disaster
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007 | 7:14 a.m.
Letter writer Tom Smith wrote in the Oct. 25 edition that he was surprised not one "hate Bush" letter writer has blamed President Bush for the California fires. Well, since he asked for it, I'll give it to him.
Bush may not have started the fires, but it was predicted as far back as May that even the smallest wildfire could turn disastrous as a result of Bush sending half our National Guardsmen and their equipment to Iraq. Those predictions now seem prophetic.
Had those men and equipment been here, where they belong, the fires would have been contained long before they escalated to the point they are at now, with thousands of homes burned out and nearly a million residents evacuated.
This is Hurricane Katrina all over again (which was also predicted before it happened), and at least some of the blame can certainly be placed on Bush's shoulders. His mismanagement of every single aspect of American life is now the joke of world history.
I only wonder how Bush's "base," the top 1 percent of income earners, feel about him now that some of their own homes have been destroyed.
William Bruchert, Las Vegas
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