Moody Amphitheater
Does Bush Really Feel Our Pain?
RECEIVED Tue., March 9, 2004
Dear Editor,
The Bush campaign is using images and events of 9/11 in their first campaign ad. Is anyone really surprised that this tragic event is being spun for political gain? Let's not forget our esteemed leader in his flight suit under a "Mission Accomplished" banner in May of last year. Five hundred fifty American lives and thousands of Iraqi lives later, we have no credible exit strategy for Iraq. We have no proof that Iraq posed the "imminent threat" that Bush told the American public it did. WMDs are nowhere to be found.
While billions of dollars are being spent to stabilize Iraq, millions of Americans are going without health care, a roof over their heads, and even a steady job. Our schools are suffering from underfunding, and our first responders, like our firefighters, are having their budgets cut.
Leadership, that's what we keep hearing from Bush. Do I believe it? No. Neither should you. He has yet to take any responsibly for anything that has happened under his watch, not the loss of lives, the loss of jobs, the loss of the surplus, and certainly not the loss of his credibility. This is another mission he failed to accomplish, and it's time he joined the ranks of unemployed in the country. Maybe then he can really feel our pain.
The Bush campaign is using images and events of 9/11 in their first campaign ad. Is anyone really surprised that this tragic event is being spun for political gain? Let's not forget our esteemed leader in his flight suit under a "Mission Accomplished" banner in May of last year. Five hundred fifty American lives and thousands of Iraqi lives later, we have no credible exit strategy for Iraq. We have no proof that Iraq posed the "imminent threat" that Bush told the American public it did. WMDs are nowhere to be found.
While billions of dollars are being spent to stabilize Iraq, millions of Americans are going without health care, a roof over their heads, and even a steady job. Our schools are suffering from underfunding, and our first responders, like our firefighters, are having their budgets cut.
Leadership, that's what we keep hearing from Bush. Do I believe it? No. Neither should you. He has yet to take any responsibly for anything that has happened under his watch, not the loss of lives, the loss of jobs, the loss of the surplus, and certainly not the loss of his credibility. This is another mission he failed to accomplish, and it's time he joined the ranks of unemployed in the country. Maybe then he can really feel our pain.
Sonia Santana