An Open Letter to President Bush

I guess if I had to write a letter to President Bush, this is what it would say:

January 4, 2004

Dear President Bush:

I am sure that as a father, husband and friend you would be referred to as one of the best. But as a president, and more specifically the President of the United States, you are sadly, one of the worst in our nation’s history.

Yesterday our country mourned as we laid to rest our 38^th Commander-in-Chief. Both you and your father, George Herbert Walker Bush, our country’s 41^st president spoke highly of Gerald R. Ford at his funereal services. You should have, because neither one of you will ever be compared to him in history. His integrity, intelligence and guidance led our country through a time of indifference, a time when our nation needed a true leader, a time when being a leader meant more than living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

He left a legacy Mr. President, a legacy that you, and the Republican Party should have tried to equal; and as yet have failed to do so.

I realize that the plans and goals of your administration were drastically changed on September 11, 2001. And for this your ideals, your goals, and sadly the history of your presidency was written differently than both you and your party intended. However, the fact remains that both you and your political party have no one to blame but yourselves.

When our country demanded justice for nine-eleven, you sent troops to Afghanistan, and we supported you. When you told us of a man named Osama bin-Laden, and his bid to terrorize the world, and the need for him to be stopped, we supported you, and when you told us of a tyrant leader in Iraq who should be subjected to world justice, we supported you there too.

And now that chapter of your administration is complete. Thanks to the good folks at Nextel, Cellular One, Alltel, and You Tube, we have seen the proof of the fall and execution of a madman. We are thankful for that. We have seen the justice of your administration. But it is time for our country to put that behind us. It is time we move forward.

Mr. President, where is Osama bin-Laden? Isn’t it about time to get back to the matter at hand? Or has your administration gotten so turned around that that is not a possibility? Maybe at this point, with a Democratic Party majority in both the House and Senate, you should start acting like the president that you are, a lame duck.

You have let your poor foreign policy govern your presidency at the expense of your domestic policy. You and the Republican Party should consider it a sad day in American history when the voters of states such as Florida and Michigan take it upon themselves to raise the minimum wage, because they as voters knew your administration, and your party would not come to their aide.

Mr. President, over three thousand men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice during your presidency. Bring our troops home.

Then start working on your book and your post-presidency lecture tour speeches and quietly fade into history.

Sincerely

Brian C. Noell