Letter to the editor:

Bush betrayed U.S. out of self-interest

Tom Harper, Henderson

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | 2:04 a.m.

I read with incredulity the Monday column by Dan K. Thomasson, headlined “Ultimate betrayal,” wherein he questions former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s loyalty and describes McClellan’s expose of the Bush administration as being “detestable” and showing a “lack of political judgment.”

What is more detestable and lacking in political judgment: McClellan’s lack of loyalty and blind partisanship or President Bush’s sending our soldiers to be killed or maimed because of rationalizations and ideological self-interests?

Did the Bush administration show loyalty to this nation by going to war and placing our soldiers in peril, not because it was a necessary war but to satisfy his ideological self-interests, including Bush’s admission to McClellan that all of the great presidents were war presidents? There is no more sacred duty of a president than to set aside self-interests and make decisions in the best interest of the nation.

Though Mr. McClellan betrayed a loyalty to Bush, the Bush administration betrayed this nation by starting and continuing a war based on propaganda and self-interests. President Kennedy, in his commencement address at American University on June 10, 1963, stated: “The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war.”

Likewise President Carter, upon receiving the Nobel Prize on Dec. 10, 2002, stated: “War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

Democrats, independents and Republicans must come together to support the Democratic presidential nominee and prevent John McCain from serving a third term of the Bush administration — an administration that will certainly prolong a war that shouldn’t have been started and one that has tragically killed and maimed so many of our brave soldiers.

Discussion: 4 comments so far…

By NVMakz

6/4/08 at 6:48 a.m.

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I guess reality IS incredulous to this writer, offering up another form letter eagerly lapped up by the Socialist Sun.

I'll take the third term of Bush over the second (and maybe third) of Jimmy Carter.

Remember, The main reason Carter won his NPP (the "agreed framework" eliminating the No. Korean nuke program, lol), was repudiated BY No. Korea three days before the acceptance ceremony. Carter, ever the liberal hypocrite, accepted it anyway.

As we all know, this situation was "left" for Bush to confront, another reason why Carter was, and Obama might take his place as, THE worst president of modern times.

This bald-faced LIE of a LTE typifies the tenor of the "failing newspaper since 1989" which the Socialist Sun leeches their poison on we all. Shame on the Sun..............
By JohnF

6/4/08 at 8:42 a.m.

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NVMakz,

What does one have to do with the other? You're saying that Jimmy Carter's having done something wrong means GW Bush did not do anything wrong. If you want to justify Bush, then try and justify him. Don't say that Bush is good because a Democratic President of 30 years ago was bad.

It's like saying that Nixon was right to cover up the Watergate burglary because Harding was involved in Teapot Dome.
By DavidMorgan

6/7/08 at 9:49 p.m.

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Hey guys, how about some common sense observations without resorting straight-away to political labels and hacknied cliches to drive your opinions. Bush and his political lackeys have trashed this country, our reputation in the world and it'll take 50 years for any clear headed group of foreigners to believe a word we say. And we've caused the mass slaughter of many of our children a half a world away. Dems da facts...
By jojameson

6/8/08 at 7:01 a.m.

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Too bad it took McClellan so long to discover what those of us outside the administration figured out a long time ago. Better late than never.