dear dubya…

19Jan09

Dear Dubya,

I will keep this simple, I know you have a difficult time with language. How dare you! How dare you tear this nation apart playing both destroyer and martyr for 8 horrific years and then when the end is neigh, decide you need another 15 minutes to say goodbye to America. We said goodbye to you years ago. We lost our faith years ago. Remember Sept. 11? You were reading to children. You continued reading to said children while hundreds of Americans jumped to their deaths as raging fires enveloped their offices and eventually crumpled their buildings and then our spirit. But you kept on reading…even as death knocked on Americas doorstep and was allowed in because she had no protector. YOU were supposed to protect her. The masses spoke in 2000 and called upon you to perform the duty you promised us all you were capable of doing.

You failed. 

Remember Hurricane Katrina? I know you have at least heard of it b/c you mentioned it in you sad “goodbye”. America was not angry at you for not landing Airforce One in Baton Rouge. America was angry with you b/c again you allowed more Americans to waste away and die, leaving them without food or water for a week. Those 3000 or so in the Superdome were Americans Dubya. Not the dreaded harborers of WMDs, they were the people you were sworn to protect. You spent four days posing for cameras before you even went to New Orleans. FOUR DAYS.

You failed.

You called an end to the Iraq War in 2003. To date, 4,000 plus soldiers have died as well as thousands of civilians. Wars do not end just b/c you say they do. They continue until troops are called out of theater and brought home, to their families and not in coffins. Calling a soldier a hero during a press conference does not bring back his or her limb. It does not erase the screeching, bloodstained memories they have from living war. There were no WMDS. We may have found Osama by now, had you concentrated your efforts in Afghanistan, going after the real threat instead of finishing Daddy’s war. Thousands could still be alive to watch their children marry, to hold their spouses’ hands into old age.

You failed. 

The national deficit, the economy, the housing crisis, lack of quality education, race relations, stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion, fair pay for teachers, torture.

You failed.

You’re a failure, both as a president and as a human being.

Peace,

Stephanie L Coward

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