A chance to vote out inept leaders

What an interesting photo-op on March 3rd of the pals, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Nouri al-Maliki, taken in Baghdad.

Then the quote, in a separate article, from the person in Texas who wants to vote for someone who does not "cut and run."

What is wrong with people in this country? How can people be so ill-informed to support such a disastrous war?

Accolades should go to all who questioned the rationale for pulling troops out of Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda was, and sending them to Iraq, where al-Qaeda was not.

But on May 1, 2003, George W. Bush proclaimed the U.S. "prevailed" in the battle of Iraq.

We have Iraq and Iran now pursuing what a lot of us knew would happen, i.e. that their Shi'a majorities would pursue a mutually beneficial relationship. This should come as no surprise.

And our troops are still there?

But the catastrophe goes far beyond this war. Our federal debt has gone past $9 trillion and now W. has proposed a 2009 budget with a half-billion dollar deficit?

Jim Oberweis, what is this "wasteful spending" that you are promising to relieve us of?

Your party, courtesy of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, have brought fiscal irresponsibility to heights that many of us never thought were possible.

Out of the last four Republican presidents, Nixon was impeached while Reagan and Bush Jr. should have been impeached. Before this, excluding Eisenhower, the Republicans gave us another sorry group of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.

It's been a long time since we've had leadership that worked for and believed in "we the people." In the meantime, we the people will have the chance this year to vote out of office all of these politicians, the vast majority of which are Republican, who continue to support these catastrophic policies and the continued trashing of our Constitution.

Kevin Martin

Schaumburg