Bush's actions are more serious

How ironic that the Bush Administration in its governance of this country for the last 8 years will virtually escape incrimination for its murderous rampage in the Middle East, emptying the war chest of the American treasury of billions of dollars, and trashing what's left of this democracy while the governor in Illinois will go off to jail, if indicted and convicted, for bribery in office for a comparative mere pittance of tens of thousands of dollars. Has this country irreversibly lost its perspective?

Have we forgotten the meaning of equal balance on the scales of justice?

Both the president and governor have been caught on tape, one blatantly on television and in public, the other on wiretapped telephone calls and not so secret memos, each admitting violations of their oath of office. So far evidence has shown that both should be brought to trial.

Only then will we find their motivations and possible criminality in violating legal statutes and constitutions of both the federal government and the state of Illinois.

If we don't address their affront to ethics, legality, and morality today, everything we do in government will be blemished because we, the public, are complicit in the failures of both principals for our lack of oversight, our complacency, and our indifference to governance. And sometime later in the dark thereafter our children's children will then ask this question: "Grampa, how did this happen"?

One answer, embarrassingly, might be: "When the moment arrived we threw the book at the governor in Illinois but kept it on the shelf, away from the president when he was in office at the time. For reasons I can't explain, our voices were sadly and hopelessly mute. We all should have shouted from the rooftops"!

James D. Cook

Streamwood