(Hubert Flottz, you're going to love what you read below.)
These letters are direct hits, which will be obvious after reading through the facts presented. Kudos to those who wrote them. One day the bulk of Congress will catch up to what the military family already knows.
Columnist’s errors, mistruth
“Using left’s logic, expelling Feingold also acceptable” (Opinion: Jay Ambrose, March 21 print edition) is full of errors and mistruth.
Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, the junior senator from Wisconsin, proposed censure for the president of the United States for breaking the law. Almost everyone on all ends of the political spectrum agree that the president did, in fact, break the law. Some just believe that the president has become above a law.
The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Security Act set up a court to oversee the National Security Agency’s use of electronic surveillance to ensure that citizens were not subject to unconstitutional searches. The court may issue warrants to conduct searches and has turned down only a handful of applications in nearly 30 years. That was not enough for the president.
President Bush has publicly acknowledged that he did not comply with this law, and justified it under the broad war powers he was given by Congress to respond to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
His justification is legally laughable, but that has not stopped writers and commentators such as Ambrose from repeating. Feingold’s proposal to censure the president is one option among many that the Senate has to address the president’s illegal actions. Many Republican lawmakers want to now change the FISA law to retroactively make the president’s behavior legal. That is not how the law works. If you break a law, you can’t get away with it by changing the law afterward.
As I am working in Iraq, helping to establish a society that is governed by the rule of law instead of the rule of a dictator who is above the law, I am glad that some senators, like Feingold, are protecting the home front and ensuring everyone, even the president, follows the law.
Capt. Will Dockry
Camp Victory, Iraq
Many facts exist to bash Bush
Re: Maj. Jeff Thornton’s March 17 letter “Where are the facts?”
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=35783: George W. Bush’s own military records and history shows him to be unfit for the title of commander in chief. That Mr. Bush “allowed himself” to be placed in front of many others in line for a slot in a Texas Air National Guard unit should have been enough to keep him out of the White House. Let’s not concern ourselves with the fact that he did not complete his own military obligation. By right, he should have been placed on active duty after missing the number of meetings he missed.
But, for something a little more recent: On Jan. 14, 2003, I heard Mr. Bush say on national television that he had not made up his mind about invading Iraq. We all know now that that statement was a lie and many of us knew it then. I’ll always remember that date, because the next day my son left home to begin basic training.
Mr. Bush has given many different reasons as to why he invaded Iraq. He will not acknowledge he went into Afghanistan with too few troops, boots on the ground. He is responsible for those of us not supporting the decision to go into Iraq being labeled “unpatriotic.” He was directly responsible for the display of the banner reading “Mission Accomplished” on the ship. Mr. Bush was directly responsible for sending too few troops into Iraq and without the equipment needed to fight the war.
More recently Mr. Bush lied about not knowing that the damage from Hurricane Katrina would be as bad as it was. Now what else would Maj. Thornton and those who think like he does about their beloved George W. Bush want to know? I served in the military during five different administrations and never was I ashamed to call any of our presidents during that time my commander in chief. I’m glad I departed the military before George W. Bush took office.
Sgt. 1st Class Bobby McGill (retired)
Valrico, Fla.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=36003
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