Posted: Tuesday, Oct 17, 2006 - 04:19:52 pm CDT Jefferson City, MO News Tribune Your Opinion
GOP is party of weakness
Dear Editor: A common Republican tactic uses a word like “weakness” to condemn opponents when your own party is actually weak.
I believe President Bush, his administration, and the Republican-controlled Congress have been:
- Weak on fighting real terrorists;
- weak on protecting us from the 9/11 attack by ignoring serious threats;
- weak by diverting attention from bin Laden and Afghanistan to Iraq;
- weak by not listening to the advice of those involved in the first Gulf War;
- weak by intentionally misleading the American people about WMDs in Iraq;
- weak by not allowing the UN inspections to be completed before invading Iraq and thus losing broad coalition support;
- weak by not listening to the military leaders on troop strength needed in Iraq;
- weak by dismissing Gen. Jay Garner's smart plan for post-invasion Iraq in favor of the Bremer plan which disbanded the entire Iraqi Army shortly after the invasion;
- weak by intentionally destroying the Iraqi infrastructure as part of the invasion;
- weak by not giving our soldiers safe, effective equipment for fighting;
- weak by weakening our troops with deadly extensions and redeployments;
- weak by relying on our National Guard troops to fight a war in Iraq;
- weak by allowing Donald Rumsfeld to lead us into this quagmire;
- weak by breaking our own laws to allow eavesdropping on Americans;
- weak by breaking rules of the Geneva Accords by torturing prisoners;
- weak by lying to the American people about “progress” in Iraq;
- weak and immoral by building up an eight-plus trillion dollar debt;
- weak by cutting funding for local law enforcement;
- weak by focusing more on toothpaste tubes than ship cargo containers;
- etc; etc.
Let's call a spade a spade. Let's call the weak Party weak.
