Pensamientos

The U.S. administration is scapegoating lower-ranked enlisted men and women for abusing Iraqi prisoners. Where are charges and trials of supervising officers? These abuses were not unknown to the higher powers. To prosecute privates and sergeants is a farce and a travesty of justice. It is a gross miscalculation and a cowardly path to blame the common soldier, while allowing the responsible higher echelon to escape responsibility for their neferious decions to extract information by questionable practices from prisioners and terrorists. The parade of poor decisions by our leaders continues to demoralize U.S troops and erode its credibility with the American people. The upcoming Presidential election results will reveal this country's sentiments, graphically. My support of the President and his advisors weakens day-by-day. No longer do the pithy statements of Mr. Bush stir me to patriotic pride, they sicken my spirit and shake my confidence. The horror of 9-11 has surely changed America, but George Bush's response to this terror is a scenario fraught with far greater dangers for our country than the destruction and deaths of the Pentagon and the twin towers of the World Trade Center. How a single term presidency weakened America in four short years is a colossal phenomena that we'll never recover from. Only God's intervention will save us from this tortuous path.