Dear Mr. Bush: We Know TRAGEDY.

[IdaBriggs]

Thanks for the history rewrite in your speech on the eve of September 11, 2004. You were quoted on http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=696&e=7&u=/afp/20040910/pl_afp/us_vote_bush as saying "I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people" which really begs the question "WHAT DID YOU THINK YOUR JOB WAS PRIOR TO 9/11?" You know, when your Vice President wouldn't convene the anti-terrorism group, you were vacationing for the entire month of August while ignoring the CIA memos entitled "Bin Ladin determined to strike in US," and cutting the terrorism budget on September 10, 2001?

What did you think your job was ON September 11? When the first plane crashed at 8:46 a.m., and you went into an elementary school at 9:00 a.m. anyway? Or, more importantly, at 9:06 a.m. when your Chief of Staff whispered in your ear "A second plane hit the other tower, and America's under attack"? Just what did you think you were doing STILL AT THE SCHOOL nearly half an hour later?

Well, its three years later, and you've made a complete mess of things. Al-Quaida is comfortably ensconced back in Afghanistan, and apparently doing so well they've got time for professionally staged public statements. Iraq is an ongoing disaster with over a thousand dead, no "weapons of mass destruction", no ties to Al-Quaida or 9/11, and the troops we've been training to "help" us with the situation keep defecting to the other side with the weapons we provide. 95% of the containers coming into our country still aren't being inspected, our border crossings security is a joke, and 80% of the world thinks you are either mentally unstable and/or more dangerous than Saddam and Osama combined. (Good public relations work there!) Oh, and NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in your administration has been held accountable for the deaths of over 3,000 of our citizens, including the airport screeners who let the hijackers board with "box cutters."

"If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This isn't going to happen on my watch," you said in your little speech that wasn't about turning a national disaster into a political opportunity for you and your brethren.

The problem, Mr. Bush, is that WE KNOW TRAGEDY ALREADY, and IT ALREADY HAPPENED ON YOUR WATCH.

On November 2, 2004, in the famous words of Donald Trump, YOU'RE FIRED!!!

Regards,
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[CrispyQ]

1. Great letter. Send it to your local paper's editorial section.

[IdaBriggs]

6. I'll do that.

I get SO MAD whenever I realize "some people" seem to think this moron is doing "a good job." Its like ARE WE ON THE SAME PLANET????

[cthrumatrix]

2. send it to CBS they seem to be the HONEST journalist who will ask

the questions

[JimmyJazz]

3. wow -

It really does boggle the mind that some people out there think Bush is doing a great job, especially after reading a piece like that. Wow, again.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi 101er!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JimmyJazz]

7. thanks

[A_Possum]

5. Excellent

[grasswire]

8. excellent, excellent

Too bad we don't have the funds to print this as an ad in the NYT. It says it all, Ida.

[babylonsister]

10. Succinct and powerful!

Well done!!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in your administration has been held accountable

Whom do you think was responsible for spiking the investigations into Osama's brothers here in the states??

http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=1
Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11
by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

[Spazito]

11. Wow!

Excellent!