Letter Of The Day

comes today from my hometown newspaper.

President Bush has unveiled his “National Strategy For Victory In Iraq.” I am tempted to ask, shouldn’t he have had a strategy for victory before he started his war? He’s almost three years late.

But he did have a Plan A, it just didn’t work out so well. Remember Plan A? It was something about 30,000 troops, about throwing flowers, being greeted as liberators and being carried through the streets to George W. Bush Square.

Now comes his “National Strategy For Victory In Iraq.” It has an impressive title, but it’s just for public relations and damage control. It’s another PR stunt for the TV cameras, like “Mission Accomplished.” These things never live up to their impressive titles.

This administration relies on a constant parade of PR stunts and lies to hide the fact that, behind the facade, a bunch of incompetents are running the show.

Here’s Bush’s real “Plan For Victory”: Distract and mislead the American public long enough to get Republicans re-elected next November.

--ALAN L. LIGHT, Iowa City
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