| Letters to the editor Sunday, December 24, 2006 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This Christmas should be no holiday for Mr. Bush I am looking at the stack of books that need my attention over winter break. In my 36 years of teaching I never left my building for break without some work. Last week, I picked up my daughter at the airport. She came home for Christmas but needs to e-mail three term papers to her professors while she is home. No one will die if we do not do our work over break, but do it we will. People will die if George W. Bush does not do his homework over his Christmas break. He may sit down with his family and enjoy a holiday meal and open presents, but while he is doing that, people will die in Iraq -- innocent people. Somewhere in America at least one family, maybe more, will respond to the knock on the door to find an officer in dress uniform and a chaplain. While we are having our holiday meal, there will be an empty chair with a picture and a candle in front of it. This is our third Christmas since our son died in Iraq. There will be almost 3,000 empty chairs. So when George W. Bush is done with his meal, he had better sit down with the best minds possible -- not the Rumsfeld "yes men," but the best minds, the ones who left the military rather than command this misbegotten mission. He needs to sit and work, and work and work. No play breaks to ride his mountain bike or photo ops cutting brush. Forget pretending to be a "good ole boy cowboy." Forget trying to salvage his legacy. Just find a way to bring our troops out of the quagmire of his creation. America must not turn on the TV on Dec. 26 to see the ersatz cowboy "a cuttin' brush, nursing his a thumpin'." They need to see a grown man trying to fix his mistakes. DIANE SANTORIELLO Penn http://pittsburghpost-gazette.com/pg/06358/748418-110.stm |
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This Christmas should be no holiday for Mr. Bush