Send your letters to the Free Press, PMB #178, 1463 E Republican St,Seattle 98112, or WAfreepress@gmail.com. Please include your full nameand phone number for verification. Keep them short. Letters may beedited for length, spelling and grammar. Letters do not necessarilyreflect the opinion of the Free Press. Letters which respond to FreePress articles will be given precedence. What's With Americans?So I ask myself, "What's with Americans? Why aren't they hopping madabout the devastation by the Bush Administration?" Bush eitherexaggerated reports of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction or wasfed fabricated information by the Defense Department's intelligencenetwork. Regardless, we invaded a sovereign nation after weakening itwith 10 years of embargoes. The latest spin is that it really doesn'tmatter about the missing weapons of mass destruction because America dida good deed by getting rid of that rat Saddam. Of course Americasupported Saddam in the past when he was useful to us and has supportednumerous other tyrants as bad or worse than Saddam. So what's withAmericans? Bush has passed two tax cuts which will transfer dollars fromyou and me to the wealthy and is now working on another tax cut whichwill transfer even more dollars to the wealthy. His administration isslashing social services, threatening to privatize Social Security andMedicare, cutting aid to education and dumping the bill for themilitary/industrial complex on our kids and grand children. So what'swith Americans? At risk is women's right to chose which is underconstant assault by our "compassionate conservative" president. He'sruining our environment and deregulating corporate villains who willpick our pockets and leave us destitute without properly fundedregulators. And what about the economy? When will Bush stop posturingand pay attention to the economy? The list of outrages against Americagoes on and on. What's with Americans?
--Howard Pellett
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