Having just returned from watching the Mariners in Peoria, I did not see the coverage in the local papers regarding the current mess the Bush administration has gotten itself into.
From what I read and heard in the Phoenix media, it seems we have a parallel with Nixon’s run for a second term. Back then it dealt with what might be found on some secret tapes. Today it appears to deal with an agenda that those closest to the administration had been preparing to ensure the safety of this country.
Back then, an attorney general was at the heart of some planning of dirty tricks; today an attorney general is tearing at the heart of our Constitution with his Patriot Act.
Back then, the truth was to be revealed by the release of those carefully edited tapes; today it is to be revealed by the testimony of the president’s national security advisor’s carefully vetted responses to the Sept. 11 commission, charged with determining the facts leading to the 9/11 disaster and to the additional testimony of the president and vice president.
The report of this commission will be released to the public after it has been carefully scrutinized by this administration to ensure that no national secrets are revealed. That argument was used the previous time also. Is history about to repeat itself? The basis of all of this is so that we do not let ourselves become victim to another attack. Homeland Security has been charged with that task. But where are the funds to beef up the firefighters and police? The tax reductions that might have helped fund such modernization have prevented that. But we keep borrowing to fund an unplanned nation rebuilding with the wrong type of activity to properly address that issue.
Mill Creek
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