Here we go again! Lyndon Baines Johnson, who is quoted as having said, “I don’t want to be the first president to have lost a war,� kept sending our boys to the quagmire in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of them ended up dying for a cause, which makes no sense when you look at it now.
President Bush has stated the final solution in Iraq will be in the hands of those who follow him in office. So more boys get ground up in the mess of Iraq.
Neither Johnson nor Bush experienced the immediate horrors of war. Johnson finally realized it was a lost cause, announced he would not run for a second term, retired to his ranch in Texas, grew his hair long and lived for a while to regret his continued escalation.
This nation is now serving Bush’s vanity. In his conversations with God, it’s hard to imagine that he is getting instructions to continue to lead the herd over the cliff. There are ample grounds for impeachment.
—Howard Landon, Ojai
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