Letters to the Editor
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The First Clue That Something Was Badly Wrong With The Bush Administration
OK, I'll ignore the whole point of the Supreme Court stopping the Florida recount and summarily appointing Bush as president. I hope this will be thoroughly investigated someday.
When the Bush Administration first dragged its feet and then fought tooth-and-nail against having a commission investigate 9/11, it should have set off alarm bells throughout the country. Instead, our shocked psyches, having been redirected after the attack to cheering our troops chasing will-o'the-wisps on the other side of the planet, barely registered the anomaly. Only after Bush/Cheney/Rove were assured complete control of the commission via their loyal stooge Philip Zelikow and got the commission to accept their version of events as axiomatic did they agree to cooperate. The commission's conclusions were, consequently, worthless. No person in a position of responsibility who messed up on 9/11 has ever been so much as reprimanded.
A nation priding itself for "freedom" and "government by, for, and of the people" has submitted to an exploitive group of ruthless, mass murdering criminals with barely a whimper of protest. Even in view of the current unpopularity of the administration and its leader, the Congress seems to be paralyzed in dealing effectively with this situation. If you ever wondered how a democratic society could be transformed into an authoritarian state, just look around you.