I am so angry!
Why can’t the Bush administration get its plans and estimates right? In the beginning, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the war would last less than six months. It’s been 28 months.
Vice President Dick Cheney said a few days ago that the insurgency is “in its last throes,” but coalition casualties have been steadily climbing over just the past four months.
And now the last straw: They underestimated the number of veterans who would return this year from Iraq and Afghanistan needing medical treatment, and not just by a little bit. They were off by a huge amount. The new estimate is more than four times the old one — from 23,553 to 103,000. Are they all amateurs?
This latest mistake will cost us another $2.6 billion. We need to get that money from somewhere and stop adding to the deficit. It is time to rescind the tax cuts and bring back estate taxes. It’s mainly the poor who are fighting this war, and it’s time for the rich to hurt a bit, too. Maybe then they’ll think carefully before they elect another amateur.
We all need to write to our senators and representative and demand that they rescind these tax cuts to help pay for the war and hold the administration accountable for their incredible ineptitude.
— Lynne Nuibe, Camarillo
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