Bush administration
clueless on state of Iraq

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A comment on the Bush administration's claim that most of Iraq is calm and peaceful: That would be the equivalent of President Abe Lincoln saying during the U.S. Civil War that "Our great country is largely at peace. It is only in a few of the eastern states where we have a problem."

Also, when Vice President "last throes" Dick Cheney was asked why the Iraqis were taking so long to set up their new government, he replied "Well, it also took a while for our forefathers to establish our government." I would like to point that we didn't depend on a foreign country to fight the British for us. If we had, it might have taken even longer. I find President Bush's statement very disturbing when he says "My decision to invade Iraq was absolutely right and I would do it again." He considers himself the police chief of the world, which doesn't really make us any safer.

Anyway, he occasionally provides us with some comic relief with his nucular Bushisms.

Mahlon Bickford

Clinton