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President is real
Editor, The Journal."
Will the real George W. Bush
stand up or out? First there is
George H.W. Bush and Barbara,
good and honorable people trying to
raise good, civic-minded children.
Then there is Laura Bush, a school
librarian, serious and cautious in
selecting a husband. We presumed
she sought an honorable, hard-
working family man who would
help her raise a good family, and
she believes that's what she got.
Finally there is George W. Bush.
Is he a bad seed or evil incarnate
that some see? Unlike many poli-
ticians, President Bush is a "what
you see is what you get" kind of
man, like it or not. He says what he
thinks and does what he says. He
is like our local state senator, Tim
Sheldon.
Disliking all that the President
does or questioning his articulation
skills does not warrant the hatred
that appears in papers regularly.
That hatred began befbre the Iraq
war and seems to be a learned be-
havior. Some extreme partisans are
acting like Tanya Harding with an
iron bar, aiming at kneecapping, or
crats offered up a strong candi t
even ibr the top national office. e
media still occasionally talk of that
• P come d0ee
officeholders will never
to his stature It is sad Our etae
deserves better ....
Meanwhile we have pres.!de
Bush, elected twice, not reJect"
twice. The "real" G.W. Bush ,
tinues to stand up and out for will
he believes, which is winning,
losing, a war he and DemocratS
Congress agreed to pursue.
DRAGONS
i00eaders" 00ournal: a NASA astronut seeking revenge
on a rival. ORIGAMI
These same fblks helped nomi- KAZOOS
nate two mediocre presidential
candidates not worthy enough to BATMAN
i fo d pid pl be renominated, though they lost
Un n rme , stu peo e by small margins. Why? They must PIRATE SHIPS
fel a frustration so extreme that it CRIBBAGE
Editor, The Journal: grandchildren's future well-being
There are always some people
in this world who don't know their
history and are so unintbrmed as
to make their comments laugh-
able. Anyone who believes that
"Dubya" is one of the best Presi-
dents in America's history is an
absolute fool, and I do not suffer
fools gladly.
The word stupid comes to mind,
which describes people like Jack
Mallinger (January 25 letter,
"One of best in nation's history")
expressing their total ignorance
of what has happened over the
past six years. Even responsible
Republicans are tired of Bush's
mistakes! But, thanks, Jack, we
needed a good laugh!
The 11 points he makes are su-
perbly ridiculous. Historians are
already measuring the record of
this Republican puppet of the big
oil companies, and they clearly
demonstrate his total ineptness in
handling his job. (And the books
are already in print.) I don't have
the space to rebut each goofy point,
except to say that there is not one
single thing that anyone can say
he has done right, given the alter-
natives. He has so badly screwed
up this country that I fear for my
in this dangerous world he has
made his legacy.
We now have the world's total
lack of respect for our occupation
of Iraq and here at home have our
inhumane torture policies, our il-
legal wiretapping and our loss of
privacy and diminution of habeas
corpus constitutional freedoms.
Our once lofty national perch as
the "Shining City on the Hill" has
sadly slipped to the depths of the
"Muddy Village of Deceit, Despair
and Shattered Dreams." This is
not Jefferson's America!
Iraq is not now a democracy and
most likely never will be. They like
a strong-man type of government.
These Sunnis and Shiites are still
living in the Sixth Century. Wake
up, Jack! These are fierce tribes
of Islamic religious zealots who
indiscriminately kill their own
men, women and children. As a re-
sult, Iraqis are leaving their home
country by the tens of thousands
every week, and their country is a
wreck.
We have lost thr too many lives
and spent far too much. Frankly,
Jack, aren't you sick and tired
of the violence? Every day more
deaths! The so-called "surge" will
Stop cutting trees
Editor, The Journal:
By my house some people are
logging. A couple years ago Wey-
erhaeuser logged the front of the
hill. Now other people are logging
the back.
The animals that live there, like
cougars and owls, are losing their
home. Someone thought they saw
the cougar kill a golden retriever!
I'm worried it will eat some of our
animals.
I believe they should stop log-
ging. As the Lorax would say, "I am
The Lorax. I speak for the trees."
I speak for the trees, and they
say, "Stop logging; our friends are
dying!" Please don't cut down these
beautiful things, because they pro-
duce oxygen, and we need oxygen
to live, right?
Rebecca Missildine
Fourth grade
Cloquallum
risk more lives for what? The in-
surgents won't go away. They live
there!
Bush has to be held accountable
for at least 60,000 Iraqi deaths.
(And this is the guy who went
AWOL/om the Alabama Air Na-
tional Guard for 13 months during
the Vietnam War!) And don't for-
get: For every dead American who
has died, we have eight seriously
wounded. Are you happy about the
3,000 deaths and 24,000 people
without arms, legs and eyes, with
burn scars and the terrible mental
trauma of war? Support the troops
in wheelchairs? All that George W.
ever gave the women of Iraq (and
the families of America) was the
pain of burying their dead chil-
dren, husbands and friends•
Thanks to the "Decider," we will
be paying interest on this trillion-
dollar debt to China and Saudi
Arabia for 100 years. Interest rates
and gas prices are rising, while the
dollar is crashing on world mar-
kets, and we are economically and
militarily weaker now than at any
time in our history!
Osama is still alive, but King
George doesn't much care to go
after him, The torture chambers
in Guantanamo are still open, our
ports, powerlines and reservoirs
are still unprotected. Brown &
Root has been given a billion-dol-
lar contract to build detention cen-
ters within the U.S.
As far as keeping America safe,
it reminds me of the mayor who
bragged he kept his town free of
tigers. He proved this by saying,
"Well, has anyone been attacked
by a tiger?"
Greg James
Shelton
causes irrational behaviors. It has
to be the selection process that forc-
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not be "real." Words not .matching
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