Editor: President Bush has vowed that the U.S. will not attack and invade North Korea. Does anyone have a grain of salt? This president has lied to the American people and to the world on so many occasions about so many things, that it has become commonplace. How anyone can put faith in anything he says is beyond me.
Let’s start with his 2000 election campaign promises for non-partisan politics. His current campaign contribution collections are approaching $90 million, and yet he has no opponent for the Republican nomination for the 2004 presidential election. During the mid-term elections in 2002, he could not find anything positive to say about any non-republican candidate for any office anywhere in the land.
Before becoming president, he concealed the truth about education improvements in the state of Texas during his reign as governor. Since then, he has lied about his relationship with Enron CEO, Ken Lay. He has lied about EPA reports, and pooh-poohed the EPA as bureaucracy. He lied to us about pre-9/11 intelligence of al Queda using hijacked airliners for an attack on the United States stating, "We had no idea."
He has lied about the economy and the impact of his tax cuts on the federal deficit, indicating that the war on terror has been the primary source of the drain of the $236 billion federal surplus amassed as of fiscal year 2000, when in fact the tax cuts cost over $360 billion while we have yet to come anywhere near that for military and security operations in the wake of 9/11. Although the latest $87 billion – double what has been spent already – will close the gap considerably. Meanwhile, the federal deficit will approach a half trillion dollars next year.
He has lied about Iraq-al Queda connections, yellow cake uranium, and Iraqi WMDs – not to mention the "welcome" as liberators that U.S. forces would receive in Iraq. Some welcome! Perhaps the Iraqi people should work on their Austrian accents and better imitate Arnold Schwarzenegger when they say, "Get OUT!" Maybe then he would listen – then again, maybe not.
Bush has vowed that the U.S. will not attack North Korea, but has stated that a formal treaty, which would hold him accountable, is “off the table.” A vow is a word of honor. Honor is rarely bestowed upon individuals who bear false witness. If I were North Korean president, Kim Jong Il, I wouldn’t go near this vow with a 10-foot WMD – or for that matter, even a large salted pretzel.
Daniel Wells
Tracy