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Name:Jim O'Leary
Location:Delhi, N.Y., United States

The author and his webmaster, summer of 1965.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

People Unlike Me

In the letter posted on 3/19, the anonymous writer expressed concerned that people like me were responsible for the downfall of our country.

President George H.W. Bush, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency said: “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”

People like me had nothing to do with revealing Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as a covert CIA officer, nor are we responsible for the millions of middle class families, that are struggling and 37 million Americans living in poverty.

Congressional Republicans are responsible for the decline of our country. They looked out for the interests of multinational corporations, big oil, pharmaceutical companies and defense contractors with huge tax cuts. These corporations hide money overseas to avoid paying taxes and nothing has been done to end special tax giveaways to companies that out source jobs overseas.

Bush has commandeered our military to be gangsters for capitalism, and they’re being used as economic cannon fodder by the military industrial complex to ensure outrageous profits for multinational oil corporations.

Michael Scheuer, former head of the bin Laden unit, predicted on MSNBC, that al Qaeda is “going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States and we’re going to have absolutely nothing to respond against. It will be a unique situation for a great power, and we’re going to have no one to blame but ourselves".

Billions are being wasted in Iraq by Halliburton, KBR and Bechtel. These Republican-run firms are regularly charged with cheating our government. The “War on Terror” should be called the “Looting of America” by the Bush regime.

Nobel laureate economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University professor of public policy Linda Bilmes estimate the total cost of the war in Iraq has reached more than $1 trillion.

An end to the occupation of Iraq would allow our nation to focus on rebuilding our military and on problems such as corporate outsourcing of jobs, schools, the environment, the elderly and affordable quality health care for all.

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