ABQjournal: Readers Say Keeping America Safe Isn’t Only About Money

THE RAVINGS of John Dendahl illustrate why he was demoted by his own party. He says that “the Left refuses to expel” those who suggest “America had it coming on Sept. 11, 2001.” Give me a break.
Is “the Left” some organization that can expel people? Did anyone ever say “America had it coming”? I never heard anyone say it. However, it is true that the CIA trained Osama bin Laden and unleashed him on the Soviets. Then, when the Soviets left Afghanistan, the U.S. abandoned the Afghans, providing fertile ground for the growth of the Taliban.
One thing leads to another. Is it traitorous to say so? Sept. 11 was one tragic day in a sequence of tragic U.S. policy decisions.
George Bush’s victory was the slimmest by a sitting president since 1916. Bush ran a fear-mongering and smearing campaign just as he did against John McCain four years ago. He fooled a lot of honest people into hating and fearing John Kerry. He has nothing for which to be proud.
Bush has never done “the people’s work.” He is child of privilege, the “folksiest” of the Bush Dynasty but not one of us folks who work for a living. The rich will get richer during the next four years and the poor will die in Iraq.
B.W. THOMPSON
Albuquerque