This is in response to Jack McKee’s letter to the editor (7/18) in which he calls for the impeachment of President Bush. McKee states, “Our accidental president has set a track record for ineptitude.” By “accidental,” McKee must be referring to the presidential election in which the Florida Supreme Court thwarted the Democrats’ attempt at stealing the election by insisting that all votes would be counted in the recounts rather than counting only the Democrat votes. Some accident.
The “ineptitude” part of McKee’s statement is puzzling. When considering double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, American hostages in Iran for over a year, and giving up America’s control of the Panama Canal, it is difficult to imagine that George Bush could reach that level of ineptitude, even if he tried. But, Democrat Jimmy Carter seemed to have no trouble wallowing in it.
McKee suggests that the president sent troops to Iraq based on false information. Fact: He did so on the strength of United Nations resolution 1441, approved and authorized by the Congress of the United States. Not an impeachable act. Bill Clinton committed perjury, quite possibly among the least of his misdeeds. That is why he was impeached, and justly so.
McKee closes his letter with, “Impeachment is more than appropriate. Let’s get the truth”. One must wonder if truth is still reality or has it simply been reduced to being whatever a person perceives it to be.
Paul St. Jean, Lewiston
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