We need a leader who tells the truth

Following are two statements by two politicians regarding the recent National Intelligence Estimate declaring Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization; see if you can guess who made each of the statements.

1) To me, the NIE provides an opportunity for us to rally the international community — to continue to rally the community — to pressure the Iranian regime to suspend its program.

2) The Kyl-Lieberman amendment is responsible for bolstering “aggressive diplomacy” with Iran and the latest NIE demonstrates it is working.

They sound like they came from the same dim-wit, don’t they?

Actually, the first is by our intellectually void president. (Uh, how do we suspend a program that has already been suspended, Mr. Bush?)

The second is from the say-anything-to-get-yourself-elected Hillary Clinton. (Just how does an amendment signed in 2007 have anything to do with the halt of the nuclear weapons program in Iran in 2003, Mrs. Clinton?)

This country cannot afford to have another executive in the Oval Office who tells blatant lies in order to get things his or her own way at our expense.

I suggest the voters in this country take a good hard look at all the candidates for the 2008 presidential race. If they are lying now, they’ll lie when they win. This includes Clinton, Obama, Giuliani and Romney — all of whom have been caught in lies designed to deceive the American people in order to win support. We’ve had enough lies. It’s time for the truth to prevail and time for Americans to wise up and elect some fresh and honest voices to represent us and take our country back from the self-serving elitists on both sides of the aisle.

Kevin Wruck

Marysville