Stars & Stripes letter: Bush’s decisions disastrous

Bush’s decisions disastrous

George W. Bush said, “I’m the decider, and I decide what is best.”

Bush’s decisions on political appointees, including Donald Rumsfeld, Michael Chertoff, Michael Brown and former CIA Director Porter Goss, have been undisputed disasters. Gen. Michael Hayden, deputy director of national intelligence, may replace Goss, who quit without explanation. Hayden is a staunch defender of Bush’s illegal, warrantless domestic spying and a likely advocate for Bush’s decision to ignore more than 750 laws if they conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution.

These events coincide with defense contractor Halliburton/KBR’s $385 million award to build immigrant detention centers “or to support the rapid development of new programs” still undefined. Bush prefers to debate the language in which the national anthem is sung rather than Made in America concentration camps for those singing it.

Bush isn’t the only one expanding his power outside the executive branch. Rumsfeld’s “most ambitious plan yet” widens America’s pre-emption policy beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2002 Rumsfeld said the war against Iraq would be short. He told troops in Aviano, Italy, “It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”

Cakewalk, Dick Cheney told “Meet the Press.” The U.S. is entering Phase Two of Bush’s plan “to fight and win multiple simultaneous major theater wars” per its blueprint “Project for a New American Century.” Iraq, Iran and North Korea comprise “The Long War” the conservative CATO Institute informed CNNI about in 2003.

For this administration’s duration, troops will force at gunpoint Bush’s interpretation of democracy abroad while Americans struggle against a constitutional crisis stateside. A group of West Point Academy graduates recently concluded, “The deceitful connivances of the current administration have resulted in a war catastrophic to our nation’s interests: politically, economically, militarily, and morally.” I agree.

Michele Winter
Würzburg, Germany

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=37071

Their goals are anything but American.

I think it's absolutely wonderful that a letter like this can be published in Stars and Stripes.

Apparently the military still believes in the Constitution, including the part about free speech. It was still very brave of Ms. Winter to write this letter, but I'm happy to see that it got printed.

Ms. Winter and the editor of Stars and Stripes, I thank you.
:patriot:

It is just hard to think that these far right nuts can forever run a party that was a real American party for so long. I can recall my father who thought wars were a waste of men and money and the country should be with out debt. Tell me that their are still people like that left in that party?

Folks,

Stars & Stripes has never had so many negative letters against any acting president, and I do mean "acting." How many letters does it take before Bush realizes that the military community thinks he's one dial short of an attitude gauge?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/18/45138/421