I am urging my fellow citizens when they cast their votes for president on Nov. 2 to reflect upon what George W. Bush has accomplished in his four years of leadership.
If you like the fact that the citizens who have benefited from his economic policies are the richest 2 percent, vote for him. If you like his leadership as a war president (waging a war based on false information, sending our military in with no plan for peace, stubbornly staying the course even though more than 800 of our soldiers and untold hundreds of innocent Iraqis have died since he declared “victory”), vote for him. If you agree that our own freedoms fought and died for by soldiers in former wars should be severely lessened through the Patriot Act, vote for him.
If you like Bush’s leadership in foreign policy, which has alienated most of our traditional allies so that we carry the multi-billion dollar cost of the war in Iraq almost alone, vote for him. If you like the way that his unfunded “No Child Left Behind” education policy is threatening the basis of our public schools which are the strength of our democracy, vote for him. If you agree with Bush’s continual weakening of environmental protections in order to financially benefit his political supporters, vote for him. If you want to see people continue to suffer from diseases that perhaps could be cured through stem cell research, vote for him.
However, if you disagree about any of these and so many more of President Bush’s actions over the past four years, please look at John Kerry’s plans to take us in another direction. It is time to change the course that this country has taken the past four years.
ANNE SHABEL
Everett
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