We won't get fooled again by Bush

Once again we have learned that President Bush has lied to the American people. So what else is new?

In September he had the audacity to tell us that World War III was imminent unless we stopped Iran from building a nuclear bomb that could destroy the world as we knew it. And at that same time, as we have learned now, he already knew that our intelligence sources had assured him Iran had stopped its nuclear program at least two years earlier.

Then he lied again in a news conference this month by saying he had only received this intelligence "last week," although his own National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said Bush was first told in "August or September" that Iran had halted its weapon program.

Doesn't this sound familiar? Remember the concern about the "yellow cake" that Saddam Hussein was attempting to buy from Africa? Bush included that little gem in his State of the Union speech after his intelligence sources tried their best to remove it, and that remark became the basis for suspected WMD and the president's excuse for us to begin war with Iraq.

We have to break out of our complacency and write to our Congress people on both sides of the aisle making it clear that (1) we won't accept this rhetoric any more, and that (2) President Bush's attempts to scare us into submission no longer can have the effect it once had.

Then it is up to the Congress to decide what to do about this man that no one can trust any longer in any way. Impeach him? Cite him for his contempt of the American people? Make him realize that he has no authority to order strikes on Iran?

Let us remember the words of our chief executive and throw them back in his face: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . . uh . . . uh .. I can't be fooled again!

Jan Bach

St. Charles