Letter Of The Day

In his speech President Bush said, "I urge Congress to act responsibly and make the tax cuts permanent." The interest on the debt right now is equivalent to 40 percent of all the personal income taxes paid each year.

("But the responsible thing is to make the cuts for the wealthy permanent and borrow even more billions to do it. Because I'm the president and I can tell you up is down or down is up or we don't torture and what are you going to do about it? Heh, heh, heh.")

Bush also said, "Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy." ("So please don't criticize me for cutting short my vacation and flying back to Washington to save Terri Schiavo, but not when I was given a report titled 'Osama bin Laden Determined To Strike Inside the United States.' " With Schiavo, I was relying on Majority Leader Bill Frist's tele-diagnosis that she was not brain-dead. With bin Laden, all I had to go on was the CIA.")

-Alan L. Light, Iowa City.

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