The reason for the war in Iraq can be summed up in one word – oil. It’s the reason President Bush wants to go to war. Just look at the way gas prices have increased in the last week. Who gets rich from the gas prices going up? The same people who were behind the financing of the Bush presidential election – his friends, the oilmen.
Since the Bush administration has been in office, unemployment rates have soared, funding for social services have been cut, hard working Americans are struggling every day, losing their homes, food banks barely have enough food on the shelves to keep with the needs. On every street corner, people are begging for money, there aren’t enough shelters for the homeless. The environment is suffering; the Bush solution is to cut down trees in the forest to help prevent the forest fires and to decrease EPA standards for air quality.
This is also the same president who refused to help extend unemployment benefits in December until January and he saw his popularity go down. President Bush has only been in office for two years and I have the feeling the worst is yet to come.
.Americans need jobs, not a war. Instead of focusing on a war to make the rich richer and to make up for what his father couldn’t accomplish in getting rid of Hussein, the president needs to focus on this country and its struggles. In all the speeches that Secretary of State Powell and President Bush have given, I have never heard them say a simple five-letter word – peace. No one in the administration appears to be working toward a peaceful solution. How much longer can America afford to have George Bush as president? Don’t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors of this administration.
Arlington
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