Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane
Bush Should Fire Cheney and Rumsfeld
RECEIVED Thu., June 22, 2006
Dear Editor,
If George Bush is a true president of the United States of America, he will fire Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld immediately. Those two are directly responsible for the behind-the-scenes coup that has left our country less safe than at any time of 9/11. By putting their political allies in various positions of power in our government. By undercutting the CIA when they were the ones that had located Bin Laden at Tora Bora while Rumsfeld sat on his laurels for a month. Which, if Rumsfeld was doing his job by putting troops on the ground, might have led to the capture of al Qaeda’s leader. By twisting intelligence to feed their obsolete notion of a "policy for a new American way." A little history lesson: Those two hacks were responsible for another behind the scenes coup during the Ford administration, which probably led to the Republican loss of the White House to Carter in ‘76. A new book suggests that crucial information about national security was even withheld from the president so that Cheney and Rumsfeld’s false case for an Iraqi invasion would be unhindered by the president knowing too much. These two have polluted our government with such individuals as "Scooter" Libby and various other neo-cons who subscribe to their notions of United States hegemony. President Bush would gain a measure of respect by finally acting on his own and sacking those in his government who have led him astray and betrayed our country to feed their own hunger for power.
If George Bush is a true president of the United States of America, he will fire Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld immediately. Those two are directly responsible for the behind-the-scenes coup that has left our country less safe than at any time of 9/11. By putting their political allies in various positions of power in our government. By undercutting the CIA when they were the ones that had located Bin Laden at Tora Bora while Rumsfeld sat on his laurels for a month. Which, if Rumsfeld was doing his job by putting troops on the ground, might have led to the capture of al Qaeda’s leader. By twisting intelligence to feed their obsolete notion of a "policy for a new American way." A little history lesson: Those two hacks were responsible for another behind the scenes coup during the Ford administration, which probably led to the Republican loss of the White House to Carter in ‘76. A new book suggests that crucial information about national security was even withheld from the president so that Cheney and Rumsfeld’s false case for an Iraqi invasion would be unhindered by the president knowing too much. These two have polluted our government with such individuals as "Scooter" Libby and various other neo-cons who subscribe to their notions of United States hegemony. President Bush would gain a measure of respect by finally acting on his own and sacking those in his government who have led him astray and betrayed our country to feed their own hunger for power.
Paul Chavera
