OPEN LETTER TO BUSH
by: logistic_regressor (58/M/Location, Location, Locat) 02/10/04 11:41 am
Msg: 3115 of 33072
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Sir;

My beloved and patriotic life-long Republican father, once wore a REAL flight suit, and, now approaching the age of 90, he suffers to this very day from the physical and psychic after-effects of the leg he left behind in Europe during World War II while serving as an Army Air Corps aviator. One of my uncles came ashore in France off a landing craft during D-Day. Another I would never get to meet disappeared MIA, never to be found, over the skies of Burma. For me, the film “Saving Private Ryan” was not entertainment.

Given that YOU have never personally faced a bullet nor a bayonet nor a bombardment — nor indeed any sort of hardship, in light of what we know of your “someone-with-juice-always-to-the rescue” life, I find your bellicose, arrogant, and narcissistic statements such as “bring ’em on” and “I’ve gone to war; I’ve raised twins; given a choice I’d rather go to war” to constitute the absolute pinnacle of insult to the sacrifices made by millions of actual courageous warriors who gave so much in defense of the nation you seem so eager to sell out to the highest bidder, and whose Constitution you and your administration seem so bent on soiling in pursuit of the oligopoly so amenable to the ends of your self-interested, well-heeled crony contributors.

A year ago, with all the faux-gravitas you could muster, you ominously inveighed against the putative hundreds of tons, the tens of thousands of warheads and canisters of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction incontrovertibly poised on a hair-trigger toward our nation. The “grave and growing threat,” in your exact words. One year later your dismissive rhetoric decays tragicomically in shake-’n-bake fashion to that of (again in your exact words) alleged “evidence of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities.”

Your own hand-picked WMD gumshoe, David Kay, now publicly concludes that Hussein’s Iraq in fact had no WMD of any sort of quantity or consequence.

This comes after you stated on July 17, 2003 that "we based our decisions on good, sound intelligence. And the -- our people are going to find out the truth, and the truth will say that this intelligence was good intelligence. There's no doubt in my mind." [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030717-10.html]

Now all your spinmeisters are saying the intel wasn't so "darn good" after all. In fact, they're tripping all over each other trying to lay responsibility off to "weak intelligence."

But the buck stops with YOU, sir. The "weak intelligence" looks like it resides between your ears.

Only two possible rational conclusions obtain: [1] you and your subordinates are utterly incompetent to lead this nation, or; [2] you LIED. The upshot of either is comprised of the deaths and maiming of untold thousands and the enervation of a true and just war against terrorists. Osama remains at large—and curiously absent from your my-way-or-the-highway scolding preachments of late.

Your smug, phony Top Gun “Mission Accomplished” photo-op preening atop a carrier deck notwithstanding, you are a disgrace to this nation. Short of impeachment and indictment, I wish for you and your duplicitous and venal cabal an early aggregate retirement at year’s end.

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