Someone got us into this mess

When election time rolls around, the fingers start pointing about lack of knowledge and experience necessary to run the country.

The following figures are from the July 26 Herald. The war in Iraq thus far has cost $648 billion and counting; our nation’s mortgage foreclosure rate has more than doubled in the last quarter to 739,714. Not to mention the $4 plus gas that affects the cost of everything else.

Disregarding all the mud slinging from both parties (I personally don’t trust either of them), however, somebody got us into this mess during the last eight years. Harry Truman was right when he said, “The buck stops here.” It’s ridiculous for one party’s candidate to say the other does not have the necessary knowledge to pull this nation back from the brink of depression.

My apology, I forgot the most important part of this message: more than 4,000 our fine men and women who will never come home for another Christmas dinner. As a veteran of World War II, I pray for them and their families every night.

George W. Horton