Today's episode... Mobile, Alabama!

Can't take three more years of Bush

It appears that President Bush believes that he is infallible. He refuses to admit that he has made any mistakes. Where is the accountability that Republicans always talk about?

If the president, because of his ego and arrogance, refuses to recognize and admit mistakes, then we will never solve the problems of America. Here are just a few of the major problems.

He failed to respond effectively to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For example, a report by government auditors discloses that our government spent $3 million for 4,000 beds which were never used. We spent thousands for trailers which were never used. In 2003 and 2004, our government awarded more than $10 billion in contracts to Halliburton and its subsidiaries, most of them no-bid contracts.

Bush has given us photo-ops, but little action. While the people of the Gulf Coast continue to suffer, our Congressman Jo Bonner says, "We have done enough."

While our government puts a Band-Aid on the Gulf Coast, we spend billions of dollars on reconstruction of Iraq as a result of damage we caused in a questionable war. We blow it up. Then we repair it.

Who is profiting from the major part of the billions being spent in Iraq? Halliburton and other big Republican money campaign contributors. Recently, Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary making obscene profits in Iraq, was accused of overcharging the government $222 million, but after a questionable audit the company will only be required to pay back $9 million.

Is there any wonder that Dick Cheney (former Halliburton CEO) and Bush do not want to talk about leaving Iraq? While we have spent $500 billion in Iraq and lost some of our best and bravest men and women, Bush says, "My successor will have to solve this problem."

We have the nuclear threat from North Korea and Iran while Bush plays the tough cowboy. We have the continuation of outsourcing of jobs. We have the lack of security for our country that we need.

We have obscene gas prices (and Bush blames the American people while Exxon made $36 billion in profits last year).

Retired generals and others are calling for Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign, but Bush claims Rumsfeld is doing a good job.

Do you think America can stand three more years of this kind of leadership? I don't. It's time for a change now. Impeachment is the answer.

MARION COLLOM
Mobile

Thanks for standing up, Marion! We've got to get you together with like-minded folks and get an impeachment resolution out of Alabama, next!