Sick of it all
I'm going to pull my hair out if I have to hear any of the following phrases one more time: "George Bush is the worst president ever," "We need to save the libraries," and "global warming."
To many people George Bush is many different things, but I don't believe he is responsible for every problem on the face of the planet Earth. Although some people think so. He is a human being and makes decisions according to the information he has available at the time.
The libraries issue is a simple one for me. The last time I stepped foot in a public library was at least 10 years ago. Now I get my information from the Internet, talk radio, the newspaper and forming a personal opinion from the facts or opinions I have read and heard.
Last but not least, everyone and their mother has an opinion on the subject of global warming. This is the catch phrase of the day that makes my stomach turn. No matter what your opinion is on this subject, "How is it that there have been several ice ages before there was a modern society driving around SUVs"? — Aaron Jacobsen, Medford
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There's just no end to it. In just one day (April 4), the Mail Tribune reported:
- The FBI and CIA have been transferring people, secretly and illegally, to prisons in Ethiopia that are notorious for torture and abuse.
- Bush was "adding conditions" to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the EPA must regulate greenhouse gases. Next time a judge makes a ruling in a case of yours, try "adding conditions."
- Bush's General Services Administration administrator hosted a meeting (in violation of the Hatch Act), complete with Power Point presentation, on how the GSA could help Republican candidates.
Just add these to the hundreds of other outrages committed by this administration (example: firing the U.S. attorney who put Duke Cunningham in prison for accepting bribes).
I hope the voters remember these incredible excesses in November 2008. Congressional oversight is absolutely essential. — William G. Carter Medford
A fair trial will do
While it is appropriate to argue for Bush, Cheney and company to be tried as war criminals and prosecuted in full accordance of law, to argue that Bush should then be executed is completely inappropriate. Capital punishment, state-sanctioned murder, is immoral.
The U.S. is losing the Iraq War simply because Bush chose to engage in a war that would end in guerilla warfare. The U.S. lost the Vietnam War because of the inherent difficulty, and near impossibility, of defeating a guerilla army.
It is accurate to state that Bush has engaged in an unnecessary war and that he is responsible for tens of thousands of dead and injured soldiers and civilians. Bush has turned the record surplus he inherited into a record deficit while wasting taxpayer money that could be used to support Jackson County services.
Bush and his cronies have grown very wealthy from the corporate support he has levied in office while the poor and middle class have suffered.
He has also waged a war on the environment by altering laws that protect clean air and water and public forests.
A fair trial and rehabilitation for any Bush conviction will do. — Derek Volkart, Ashland
