Letter to the Editor
Bush uses weasel words to conceal what he really means. When Bush talks about "The Program" he means
secret torture camps. When he says that he doesn't understand what the Geneva Conventions mean, it
mean he does understand them and that torture is illegal. When has asks for "clarification" he really
means redefinition of the word torture so as to pretend that torture is somehow legal. He says that
he doesn't want CIA professionals to be tried as international war criminals, but I think that he is
the one who is worried about being tried as a war criminal because he clearly understands that secret
torture camps violate international law.
Last time Bush tried to redefine torture it lead to Abu Ghraib prison where Americans were torturing
people and got caught. As a result they started chopping people heads off. Now Bush wants us to make
the same mistake again. Bush wants America to become barbarians. You don't defeat barbarians by
becoming one yourself. But that's not who we are and I urge people to call their Republican
representatives and tell them that Colin Powell and John McCain are right, torture camps are wrong.
Letter to the Editor
It seems that today's Republicans are a different party than they used to be. Republicans used to be the party of small government and keeping the government out of people's private business. Now Republicans want the government to tap you phone calls, trace your money, and watch everything you do. I remember when Republicans talked about fiscal responsibility, balancing the budget, and paying off the national debt. But you don't hear about that anymore.
Now republicans consider it a patriotic act for people to give up their freedom. Now they want to allow the government to tap our phones without warrants and set up secret CIA torture camps in foreign countries that allow concentration like camps. Now Republicans run on the fear of terrorism saying that if you don't vote for us then the terrorist will get you. It's hard for a person to say that they are a Republican now that the meaning of Republican has changed.
Letter to the Editor
Tuesday's elections were both good news and bad news for Republicans. The good news is that GOP incumbent Lincoln Chafee won the primary election. The bad news is that he is an anti-war and anti-Bush senator. Last month Senator Joe Lieberman, a pro war Democrat who was photographed kissing President Bush, lost his election to unknown novice anti-war candidate Ned Lamont. I think that the voters are sending a message that both Democrats and Republicans need to hear. That message is that we are tired of Bush, we are tired of failure, we are tired of
the lies, we aren't going to stay the course, and that we want America to recover and be a strong nation again. Voters are turning back to reality in 2006.
Letter to the Editor
Bush admits that Saddam Hussein was not behind the 9/11 attack, yet he uses 9/11 to try to justify his failed war in Iraq. Iraq had no terrorists until Bush created a place where terrorism can flourish. Why should they attack us over here when they ca beat us in their area?
We are on the wrong path, headed in the wrong direction, and America is weaker than we were 5 years ago. We are so bogged down in Iraq that we can't fight the war on real terrorism and all our enemies have to do is sit back and watch as we destroy ourselves. After all, with leaders like Bush, who needs enemies?