Here is letter I sent to my local newspaper here in Canada.

The incompetence of the Bush Administration and its failed war in Iraq.

I've been reading a book called, The End of Iraq by Peter Galbraith that hit the book stores recently and I'm about mid-way through. What I find astounding is the level of corruption and incompetence of the Bush Administration in prosecuting the war in Iraq. It is simply incredible. Bush didn't even know the difference between a Sunni and a Shia was before invading the country but yet he was going to remake Iraq and the entire Middle East as part of his "freedom" agenda. What a joke. This has nothing to do about "freedom" but about getting and securing the largest sources of oil and gas in the world.

Al-Qaida, which probably number around a few hundred to a few thousand at most, is simply the bogey man to scare the US public in supporting the Military-Industrial Complex and it's wars in the Middle East. If you look up the companies that make up the Military-Industrial Complex, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon...etc., you'll see that their stock prices have skyrocketed ever since the Iraq war started in 2003. The oil companies have also profited handsomely since the Iraq war started too.

Now that the Iraq war is failing and has become unpopular in the US, with Afghanistan also falling into chaos, I'm beginning to think whether the US should even be called a superpower anymore. Sure they have a lot of nukes, military toys and 800 bases stretched across the globe but yet it can't seem to win wars. US foreign policy has become so impotent under the Bush Administration that instead of reducing the threat of terrorism, Bush has only made it worse according to his own spy agencies. Americans have a chance to change course in these upcoming elections and kick out the ineffective Republicans in Congress. If not, they'll continue down this dangerous path that Bush has taken the US and the world on.

One has to wonder the criteria of a super-power. Military power? (we got it) financial strength? (not so much anymore) Intellectual superiority (we've fallen way down) Superior health care of our citizens (we have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world) Integrity (now that's where we are truly flaying around at the bottom of the pit) Honesty, integrity, compassion, fairness, justice all those things have kind of gone by the wayside.

Good letter.