This is an open letter to all of you who collectively wet your pants when they flew those airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon back in September of 2001. You know who you are. The ones who turned unprecedented power over to that stuttering moron named George W. Bush.
Yeah, we're talking to you, Niagara Gazette, and you, Buffalo News. And you, Sen. Clinton, and even you, Sen. Schumer. Cheerleaders for this carnage, so you were.
Three thousand people got killed that day. It was a lousy day. But not lousy enough for the rest of us to lie down willingly as the guarantees of the Constitution of the United States were usurped by a gang of thugs no better than those who brought us that sorrow in the first place.
Let's put things in perspective. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, around 80,000 Americans have been killed in ordinary homicides. Home invasions, friends getting into an argument at a party, people not wanting to wait for a divorce, and the like. A similar number have been killed on our nation's highways.
Has our chickenhawk president moved boldly to curtail our civil liberties based on these body counts? Of course not.
But he did tell us that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Which was a lie. And he did tell us that Saddam was in cahoots with the guys who brought down the World Trade Center, also a lie. And finally, he told us that our brave American men and women would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq -- greeted with flowers, he said, which was the biggest lie of all.
A lot of Americans got killed in Iraq during the last quarter of 2005. According to the Department of Defense, the number was 247. More than 6,000 were maimed. And those are the worst numbers posted in any three-month period since the war began. Progress indeed.
This president -- of "Mission Accomplished" fame -- likes to tell you why he should be able to tap your phone without a warrant, why he needs to know what books you check out of the public library, and why oil companies should be cut a break.
And all of you who wet your pants after Sept. 11 let him get away with it. We're down about 2,200 brave patriots now, for no reason at all.
| Niagara Falls Reporter | www.niagarafallsreporter.com | Jan. 10 2006 |