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4 of my immediate family members are current military, or retired, 2 have served in the 'desert' and I felt a MASSIVE wave of urgency on me last night to write an open letter to Mr. Bush. I pray for our democracy during this tyranny and 'near theocracy' were suffering under. Let me know what you think gals & guys, where should I send it? -------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Mr. President,
In the great name of God, GO! Go back to the ranch and enjoy your privileged retirement. As we approach Christmas and other religious holidays, I cannot help but feel great remorse for my elected leader's actions this past year. You have worn out any welcome you had, and frankly, are a sorry blight on American history, and have soiled our GREAT reputation of being a caring society to the world, let alone your ignoring and harming citizens with your apathetic behavior not ever seen in the annals of American political history!
Your lack of action and poor decisions when you do 'act', are SO disturbing, I am amazed how you allow yourself to stay in office and still are able to sleep at night?
In this letter, even if I ignore the CIA leak, Iraq invasion and military deaths, prisoner abuse, and the hunt for Osama being incredulously 'replaced' with this Saddam character, I cannot get the plight of those poor people who drowned to death in the days after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke and the thousands who still suffer, out of my caring heart.
At least Nixon resigned, you stick around stubbornly as if you are ORDAINED by God (no, God does not speak THROUGH you as you say, that's heresy) to inflict more harm on the citizens of this great democracy. I plead with you to realize you are a horrible president, who cannot make rational decisions, and you continue to allow those below you (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.) to make HORRIBLE decisions FOR you while we suffer.
We all know how you don't read the daily White House briefings and simply go with whatever your staffers tell you they feel should be done (and if most don't know this, that's just another example of why you barely got back in office).
Remember that day Mr. President, when you stood there smiling for the cameras and cut BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR "Bush Apologist #1!", Senator John McCain? You stayed on vacation while thousands screamed and pleaded for mercy and help, and only found it in the kindness of strangers who themselves were victimized by your grievous indifference! You also CLEARED BRUSH on your ranch while a coast line was in total and complete misery in those first few days after Katrina? Yeah, I want to go before God with that on me! You left thousands of people's hopes on FEMA bumbler-extraordinaires Mike Brown and his top two officials below him (both had NO emergency management experience, just like Brown, and were previously involved in aiding Bush's campaign and advertising decisions, BIG surprise!)
You chose a guy who you knew had been fired from a Horse Association at his previous employer, to be the head of the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION. He wrote he didn't even want to be there (in emails released recently) to help, Mr. President. The guy you left in charge, as usual, didn't care about the people. That is disgusting, Sir.
And where was our dear Vice President, the ever reclusive sad excuse for a VP, Mr. Dick Cheney? He was on vacation himself, fly-fishing all week, while citizens were fighting bravely to save other citizens who were abandoned by their government. He finally appeared with you for a photo-op on the Thursday after the storm! Where was our Secretary of State Condi Rice? Oh, that's right, she was shopping for $700 pumps at Ferragamo! Gotta keep the shoe industry going in the midst of a CRISIS of this level. WHEW! I am SO SO glad they're in that capacity as VP & Sec. of State!
To say you care about those people is a lie, and surely, is something that even your staunchest supporters have an indelibly hard time swallowing, without taking a few gulps of 'right-wing fanaticism' kool-aid to make them stick with you through this heinous attempt at acting like a president!
ALL previous Presidents would have jumped to aide a Governor who asked them for help the day BEFORE this kind of disaster was going to hit, and hit hard, but not you, you stood there smiling for the TV evening news with birthday boy John McCain and ate the sweet cake of your power while people were drowning to death. I weep for them and their screams, and can only imagine, the incredible FEAR and CHAOS that came with the rising of waters that you were warned about long before this ever happened.
You were told the levees of New Orleans were one of the top 3 disasters facing the U.S. if a level 5 hurricane were to occur, and yet you thought vacationing a little longer clearing out brush, and having a party, was more important than getting in a control room guaranteeing EVERY AVAILABLE ARMY HELICOPTER, NAVY SHIP, NATIONAL GUARD TANKER TRUCK AND ABLE-BODIED MILITARY PERSONNEL THAT WASN'T IN IRAQ WAS IN ROUTE TO SAVE THOSE PEOPLE! ANY GOOD CHRISTIAN MAN WITH YOUR POWER WOULD HAVE DONE SO, AND DONE SO SWIFTLY WITH THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENCY BEHIND HIM, WHICH CUTS THROUGH RED TAPE IN A CRISIS. YOU KEPT ON RELAXING UNTIL YOUR STAFF BEGRUDGINGLY WOKE YOU UP AND LATER GAVE YOU A DVD WITH NEWS EXCERPTS ON IT, TRYING TO GET YOU TO SEE YOU HAD TO DO SOMETHING! GEORGE, IS IT GETTING THROUGH?
The bible is clear about the pushers of laws that enable the rich but hurt the poor, the dying, the downtrodden, and you will have to answer for these cruel and callous choices you've made! I've got to answer to God for my own life, and that's hard enough, but I'm so incredibly glad I do not have to answer for yours.
It'd be different if you were the assistant manager of a Dunkin Donuts and you ran that business into the ground (you have a nice resume of doing this to companies) but you have been elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES by some extremely misguided and misinformed and 'tricked' constituents who slowly but surely are joining the side of reason & compassion.
Asking you to resign in the best interest of our country is my right as a citizen, and the plausibility of you ever reading my letter is bleak, but I do not care. Your Dad stood up in a cabinet meeting in 1974 and asked Dick Nixon to resign. So in the spirit of your father knowing it was time for Nixon to resign, I ask you the same.
I love my country too much to not write you and tell you that you SUCK as Commander-In-Chief, to speak not so intellectually, but perhaps, you may just be smart enough to understand suck better than anything since you've done a bunch of it these past 5 years.
Taking out my frustrations in a letter about your horrible management skills doesn't make life better for the 10's of thousands of families you ignored who have to face this Christmas with the smell of death & destruction still lingering on their shattered hearts & minds, as it's not easy to put something that painful behind you, I'm certain. Nor does this remotely comfort those who you've left behind who are in sorrow over a child lost in war, who can't afford to clothe their children properly in a harsh winter, or have to watch a loved one suffer a horrible disease without proper medical care because it's too costly to get them treatment. No, this letter won't be able to do anything that helps them.
So, I'll just thank GOD in heaven no one I know had to suffer through being trapped for a week during Katrina, or worse, died inhumanely in the flooding from the biggest debacle of your presidency, and most of all at Christmas time, I'm thanking my Savior for the best gift given to me this year, that I'm not you.
Respecting the Office of the Presidency -
Sincerely, The Martyred
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