To the editor:

I would like to comment on the glowing praise the editor had for Bush’s record of preventing any attacks on the U.S. since 9/11. While I agree that Bush should receive credit for this, I have a disturbing question that has greatly bothered me since 9/11: Where was the Bush administration on the morning of 9/11? We all watched in horror as people jumped to their deaths from the burning twin towers and I wondered: Where was the CIA? Where was the FBI? The ATF?

How was it that a handful of Arabs armed only with a 99-cent box knife outsmarted the most powerful nation on Earth? With all of our billions of dollars spent on our massive defense industry, spy satellites, wiretapping, spies around the globe, the entire Pentagon, etc., did no one person think of this scenario as a threat? It isn’t like planes have not been hijacked before. Why didn’t the all-powerful Bush administration think of this scenario?

When you combine this fiasco with the stock market meltdown, banking meltdown, energy meltdown and starting a war based on incorrect WMD information, I truly believe that praising the Bush administration is an astronomical stretch. Indeed, I think Bush will go down in history as one of our worst presidents ever.

Rick Baker,
Eudora