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Letters to the Editor...Energy Conservation Now; Bush's people
Thursday 11 August @ 04:31:01 |
 We need real energy conservation now
The energy bill, with its leave no oil or coal company behind, is of course, an abomination, but what more can we expect from this oil-friendly administration.
When all nations, and especially the United States, should start at once a serious conservation program to drastically reduce their use of fossil and nuclear fuels, this president gives billions of dollars to the coal, oil and nuclear industries to plunder further and deeper.
If you liked the wisdom of going to war in Iraq you should love this energy legislation.
This president is determined to lead us to the gates of Hell. Let’s hope
and pray that the warming of our planet is not too much of a geometric progression.
Don Johnson
Minneapolis
Bush’s people divide and conquer Americans
Without doubt George W. Bush is the worst president in the last 100 years (but
better than the excuses nominated by the Democrats in 2000 and 2004). He’s
lied to us about the War on Terrorism; he’s lied to us about Iraq; he’s
lied to us about his Christian beliefs; and now he’s lying to us about Social
Security.
But what concerns me most are news reports that 42 percent of Americans favor
impeaching Bush. Our Republic can easily survive eight years of a bunch of twits
like the Bush-Cheney Administration; but it will not survive if the American public
gets so polarized that it turns away from the Republic in frustration and disgust.
 Calls
for impeachment are expressions of that frustration and disgust. They are the
result of the divide-and-conquer game being played by the Bush-Cheney folks against
the American public. Liberals and progressives feel it already, and the so-called
Christian Right will eventually feel it when they realize that Bush-Cheney privately
laugh at them for their Faith and at how easy it has been to manipulate them.
The problem is not liberals versus Christians; the problem is not Democrats versus
Republicans; the problem is an administration that quite cynically uses wedge
issues to exploit our differences—to motivate (scare) its core followers
into “standing up against” imagined, immoral hordes —against
atheists and God-haters.
This is a good time for Americans to step back from partisan rhetoric and to reflect
on what really matters to us. Americans share many beliefs. We agree on many more
issues than we disagree. We might disagree with what our neighbor says or believes,
but we all know that abridging his rights of speech and belief will eventually
abridge our own, too. Our country depends on tolerance of our differences, as
well as, on our common heritage.
The Bush-Cheney folks, of course, don’t want us to think about what we have
in common. They’re about power at any cost. Clearly, they do not care if
that cost includes damaging the Republic.
What Americans need to decide is whether to sacrifice our common values, our common
heritages and our national unity for the brief satisfaction of being patted on
the head and told what we want to hear. What will history say about us? Did we
let them sow the seeds of our Republic’s destruction?
Creigh Shank
West St. Paul
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