Bush has had his share recently

Recent letters to The Herald have critized Sen. John Kerry, saying he has changed his position on issues. Some of these positions changed over the course of years as situations changed. No mention has been made of President Bush and his administration’s major reversals:

n Coalition Provisional Authority chief administrator L. Paul Bremer was adamant that U.S. troops were going to arrest Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. Now, they are not.

n The administration was adamant that the United States wouldn’t seek the support of the United Nations at the expense of delegating any authority there. Now the president is going hat-in-hand to U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for assistance.

n In his 2002 State of the Union speech, Bush boldly condemned Iran along with Iraq as a fellow member of the so-called “Axis of Evil.” Yet now, Bush is eagerly courting Iran as a key facilitator in negotiations with the Shiite rebels in Iraq. These are just flip-flops on Iraq done within the last few weeks.

Over the three-plus years he has been in office, Bush has consistantly acted contrary to his environmental stance while campaigning for office, has not funded his “No Child Left Behind” education ptogram, and as for his policy of “compassionate conservatism,” there has been no compassion with cuts in funding for the least of us, and record deficits do not embody conservatism.

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