The morning newspaper in my area, which leans right more and more each passing year, published my letter to the editor today.
It's the second largest newspaper in Wisconsin.
Here it is: (after the jump)
Bush desperate as polls drop
Taking a break from riding his bicycle while on a five-week vacation in Texas, President Bush in his weekly radio address Saturday once again falsely linked Iraq to the Sept. 11 attacks. This is a pathetic and dishonest attempt to reverse his plunging poll numbers.
On Sept. 11, 2001, the people who hijacked the four airplanes that attacked our country were primarily Saudi Arabians. The number of Iraqis on those planes? Zero, none, zilch. In March 2003, President Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq based on information he and his administration knew to be false as far back as July 2002, according to the Downing Street memos. Today he speaks, bizarrely, as if Iraq invaded America.
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was no Iraqi connection to Sept. 11. Isn't it time for newspapers to start running editorial disclaimers after articles in which these lies are repeated?
And isn't it time for Bush to get off his bicycle, get back to work, and bring our troops home alive? He's the president, not a kid on summer vacation.
Keep writing those letters to the editor! In particular, I strongly suggest bypassing the more progressive newspaper in your area (if you have such a luxury) and going straight at the moderate-to-right ones.
Take the literary fight right at 'em. Bush's performance ratings are somewhere in the upper 30's.
Hit 'im hard, in his backyard. Strike while the iron's hot.