Letter to The Decider

Dear ‘President’ Bush,

Have we the people not been patient enough with you, your administration and your great misadventure in the Middle East? After all, once we ‘liberated’ the people of Iraq from their evil tyrant of a dictator (sound at all familiar, Mr. ‘President’?), our troops were supposed to be greeted with flowers and chocolates, certainly not gunfire and roadside bombs! The people were supposed to be chanting your name, certainly not the name of radical clerics like Muqtada al-Sadr.

I don’t mean to be picky sir, but when little to no progress has been made over the course of four bloody years, stay the course is just a tad trite, even if you said those words would no longer be used – it’s still exactly what you’re doing! Bad and tragic ideas are bad and tragic however you want to phrase it. Maybe if you had treated Colin Powell a little nicer, he would still be in your cabinet and actually give at least some credibility to your cabal. Now he’s lost a considerable amount of his own credibility, but at least he was man enough to fess up and admit he screwed up; quite a concept isn’t it Mr. ‘President’, admitting you’re wrong when you’re wrong, eh?

I feel as though I should not have to lecture you on matters as pedestrian as these, but for God’s sake man! Certain things must be said and obviously no one on your end is telling you as much। You continue on with such vague statements as “some hopeful signs” on the ground regarding the January troop surge, but to quote Neil Young: “everybody knows this is nowhere.” It is all but clear at this point that you have no intentions of ever pulling our troops out of Afghanistan or Iraq; I mean you take the Green Zone out of Baghdad and it could be turned into a resort-town! Perhaps some developers in Dubai are looking for that kind of ingenuity! You could even take the proceeds and buy your beloved troops some body armor for god’s sake! Uh, I’m sorry sir; I meant that all proceeds go to Halliburton, my mistake.

Very 'sincerely' yours,

P.R. Weeks