Dear editor, The Washington Post

I certainly appreciate how your newspaper, along with the New York Times, is finally being reflective of the potential damage you may have done by publishing front page stories which were essentially Department of Defense press releases. But it's not too late! The story is still out there, waiting to be told. This is how I see it:

The whole “Weapons of Mass Destruction” charade fills me with despair not only because they were never found, but because they were spun into a wild tale which really, in the end, was unnecessary. The real story doesn’t need to be covered up: it is simply that Bush and his team are neoconservatives. They believe in an aggressive foreign policy which will establish American might and economic power across the globe.

As your own neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer writes, "The fact is, no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the late Roman Empire."+ Ok then! We’re an empire! We should take over the world! Don’t you think that a lot people in the U.S. would have gotten down with this if you had just told it like it was? Then, at least, we citizens could have had a REAL debate about our respective values, instead of arguing about whether or not Saddam Hussein was a threat to the free world.

Of course, as a liberal citizen, neoconservatives scare me. I’m wondering, for example, how they got voted into office as Republicans. Shouldn’t they have their own third party and get elected in by the people, just like everybody else? (Oh, right...they weren’t elected in.) Well, anyway, I’m thinking that perhaps you could do some investigating into why neoconservatives like George Bush and Dick Cheney feel the need to pretend like they are Republicans. I just think Republicans have the right to know who they’re voting for.

Sincerely,
Citizen Kay

+ This quote comes from the very informative article, "The Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy" by BRUCE MURPHY.

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