Bush/Cheney a disastrous team

Regarding Daryl Pratt's Jan. 1 letter, I would point out the fact Bush/Cheney are the most unpopular, disastrous duo in polling history and there are reasons. Since this is a letter I'll be brief.

In 2000 while campaigning for president, Bush said his would be the "Responsibility presidency." Bush kept harping about "people's behavior and actions (meaning Clinton) have consequences." Bush said people "should be held accountable for those consequences."

He has done quite the opposite and instead has dishonored the United States and the Office of President of the United States. His criminality, insensitivity and waste are unparalleled in U.S. history.

Bush and Cheney come from the corporate world and by their actions they see no conflict of interest in ramming through tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, which involve tax cuts for themselves. Bush and Cheney have made hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves alone, just by signing those tax cuts.

George W. Bush has diverted trillions of dollars for war-for-waste and away from repairing American infrastructure, which would have created jobs in communities throughout our nation that could not be exported overseas by our global corporations.

Mr. Pratt, you got hooked and dragged into Asia by lies of the U.S. government (Gulf of Tonken). Iraq war veterans were also lied to, and historians have already written about "The White Papers" (our version of your Pentagon Papers). I wish to conclude further by informing you that my family came to this continent in 1753 and have fought in every major conflict since the Revolutionary War and my nephew came home from Iraq last year in one piece.

As Smedley D. Butler had regrettably observed, there is a difference from what our forefathers fought for and the police actions of current times. I would recommend Smedley D. Butler's "I Was a Gangster for Capitalism" for every American to read and understand. The murky doublespeak on the TV will make a lot more "cents" and you will be richer in knowledge at least.

Diana Skipworth

Geneva