Cheney Defends Bush and Sounds the Alarm

Re “Cheney Says Bush Handled Hijack Warning Correctly,” May 20: Isn’t it curious how things work in this administration? Questions are being raised about the competence of that whole crowd in light of the information it had about possible terrorist attacks, and now, paraphrasing Vice President Dick Cheney, he’s saying that we’re about to be attacked again, it’s just a matter of time, it’s almost inevitable, and boy, we’d all better get behind our commander in chief, because after all, this is war--not the time to criticize or investigate, that’s not patriotic, and besides, it wasn’t our fault, we didn’t have enough specific information to act on. Give me a break!

Every time someone raises an issue the White House doesn’t like, just trot out the war banners and put on a verbal parade, scare the hell out of them, let them think that the only thing that stands between them and certain destruction is the Republican Party with its guns, its morality and its resolve. Well, folks, it may be working this time, but someday the people will notice that the emperor not only doesn’t have clothes, he doesn’t have any brains either.

Robert Carrelli

Thousand Oaks

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About the reports of several failures to connect Al Qaeda terrorists’ dots: My feeling is that Cheney has now failed two Bushes, in the Gulf War and with the World Trade Center. Wasn’t his claim to fame, and to the second Bush’s vice presidency, his expertise in the field of intelligence?

Beverly Simons-Morse

Manhattan Beach

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I personally wish to thank Bush for making me laugh for the first time in memory, thanks to his remarks to Republican senators that there was a “sniff of politics in the air” (May 17). Since Bush’s chief political hack, Karl Rove, told the Republican National Committee several months ago that the GOP “could take this [the war] to the country” in the midterm elections, one would think that Bush and Rove think the American people are fools.

Howard Cohen

North Hills

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What on the face of this Earth ever happened to the words “the buck stops here”?

Jean Thorpe

Big Bear Lake