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Hold On There, Mr. President!
by NHARS BENDIR
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
DALLAS, TX
Mr.President, get your butt in here. I’ve had enough.
First,Iraq.
Everyone understands that your father was handcuffed byAmerica’s coalition partners in the Gulf War of ‘91. We were free to kick Saddam out of Kuwait, but we were prohibited from going after him.
Your dad didn’t like it, but that was the deal. He took it knowing that he would suffer for it later at the polls, and he did.
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Now you want to “finish the job.” Taking out Saddam jibed perfectly with your administration’s anti-terrorism objectives, and no good American could argue otherwise. The problem is that that argument doesn't fly. Yes, Saddam was a tyrant, a murderer and an armed terrorist. For those reasons and a long list of others, he should have been taken out, and so you did. Except, you didn’t think enough about reconstruction. You were told it would be a difficult, expensive and long-term project. You didn’t want to hear it. Now you hear it every day, and so do I.
Now to this lunatic declaration of war on terrorism. Instead of declaring war on the perpetrators, sponsors and supporters of the 9/11 attacks, you declared war on every terrorist, every terrorist organization, every terrorist sponsor and every nutball everywhere in the world.
Have you lost your mind?
You have dared them to come after us, and that's precisely what they are preparing to do. They now practice their deadly craft on innocents in other countries –Yemen, Kuwait, Indonesia, the Middle East, even Moscow. They are rehearsing for the next coordinated attack on theUnited States, and you can bet that it will be a doozey.
We are certainly vulnerable. Our borders leak like a sieve, our ports are impossibly open, our power grids teeter on disaster (as we have seen), and our water supplies are wide open to sabotage. And about these weaknesses you have done what?
As I feared at the time, your declaration of war on terrorism has unnecessarily endangered the U.S. Trying to carry out such a worldwide mission has stretched our intelligence and other assets so thin that this country is now in greater danger than it was before 9/11. Even North Korea kicks sand in our face because it knows it can. Regardless of what Rumsfeld says, theU.S.can not prosecute two wars simultaneously and we both know it.
Mr. President, you have tried to justify this war on Iraq, but so far you have not. I don’t care that many of our allies are unconvinced; they are not Americans.
I am an American; I am the one you must convince, because you work for me. And you are not telling me the truth.
Here’s a truth for you: if you screw this up, so help me I will fire your ass.
Dismissed.
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