Ed Hum – 9/15/06

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Who remembers?; Edward J. Hum; Beaver County Times; September 15, 2006.

Mr. Hum led off his letter from September 2005 with, “Fellow Republicans, this is my last letter about George W. Bush.” I responded with, “Anyone taking bets?” This is Mr. Hum’s seventh anti-Bush letter since his September promise.

This letter is of the same quality we’ve come to expect from Mr. Hum.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Fellow Republicans, you have heard the president admit Iraq had nothing to do with Sept. 11, 2001, but that it is now the center in our war on terror.”

[RWC] Mr. Hum, check the record and you’ll find President Bush never claimed Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. If he had, you can bet Mr. Hum would have trotted out the quotes.

As I’ve noted before, who does Mr. Hum believe he is fooling with “Fellow Republicans?” He may be registered as a Republican (why?), but that doesn’t make him a Republican.

“OK, let’s make him answer for the 2,600-plus killed, 20,000 wounded and hundreds of thousands of civilians killed and injured in the worst planned, most incompetent military campaign in U.S. history.”

[RWC] So President Bush killed our military personnel, not terrorists and Saddamists? To folks like Mr. Hum, President Bush is the real enemy, not Islamofascists.

“Why hasn’t he fired anybody? Why doesn’t he appoint people who know what they are doing?

“Since this is the centerpiece of his war on terror and it is going to cost at least a $1 trillion instead of the few billion he predicted, why doesn’t he raise taxes to pay for it instead of piling up debt for our grandchildren?”

[RWC] “His [President Bush’s] war on terror?” Dude, Islamofascists have been attacking us since at least 1979, with two successful attacks on our own soil. Islamofascists didn’t declare war on President Bush; they declared war on all Americans.

More proof Mr. Hum is a Republican – not. Mr. Hum’s first reaction is to increase taxes, not cut spending elsewhere.