http://web17.websitesource.net/index.htmlMy letters to President Bushenrobertg6@earthlink.netCopyright 2008 Thomas Guzman2009-01-01T21:30:14-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:20:59 -0600robertg6@earthlink.netNone2009-01-01T21:30:14-06:00http://web17.websitesource.net/page35/files/2ac0d15dacb478951203b1c7af68d9dc-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://web17.websitesource.net/page35/files/2ac0d15dacb478951203b1c7af68d9dc-2.html#unique-entry-id-2
Life is getting tougher for many of us not-rich people. Coupons are much mored seductive as they have become the most important part of the paper, next to the classified jobs section.

Despite what everyone is saying about the demise of newspapers, we are finding that they provide an important use in our daily lives and as an insulation layer under our coats when we go to the warming shelters.

Newspapers are also good tinder for starting a small fire under the bridges and overpasses.

How is life in that rarefied air where the most important item on your list is to make sure you don't miss your last vacation at the ranch?

I heard you are moving to Dallas and the neighbors are already edgy about having you move into their neighborhood. I guess there is no need for pretenses after you leave office so your Crawford ranch will just be a memory. It served its purpose as a prop for your bush clearing pickup driving photo ops.

After eight years of inept leadership,you have one final mission to accomplish, rewrite history as quickly as possible. If you are as good at this as you were with everything else, publishers might as well print those history books now.

Cheney has come out swinging. Not only has he admitted to sanctioning torture and wiretapping Americans, he is actually proud of it.

Poor Alberto Gonzalez is besides himself that no one wants to hire someone who may be convicted for his crimes. He is thinking about writing an autobiography to explain why he should not be hated so much.
Maybe you and the rest of your cabinet can get together and form some kind of self-help group after Obama takes office?

I feel especially sorry for Laura. she gets sent to the front of the line and she has so little to offer except for her Stepford-wife smile and a single talking point; "My husband was a great president."

I am not sure where to send my e-mails after today. Can you send me your new e-mail address so I can keep in touch? (Right!) I’ll keep writing to you at this address once in a while just to keep in touch.

In the meantime I started a new website about your good friend Rush Lumball. So you can go to www.rushlumball.com to see if I can channel one of your main worshipers.

Good Bye, from your favorite pen pal and may our paths never cross.


From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: January 1, 2009 11:04:55 PM CST
To: guzmatom@mac.com

On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.

We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.

Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message.

Thank you again for taking the time to write.
]]>robertg6@earthlink.netDec 20082008-12-14T21:24:39-06:00http://web17.websitesource.net/page35/files/d24f25e88584e3820cc3ff45a73e5662-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://web17.websitesource.net/page35/files/d24f25e88584e3820cc3ff45a73e5662-1.html#unique-entry-id-1robertg6@earthlink.netDec 20082008-12-01T21:29:26-06:00http://web17.websitesource.net/page35/files/e8ba8266c33d522133c2c0a9b3d886f8-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://web17.websitesource.net/page35/files/e8ba8266c33d522133c2c0a9b3d886f8-0.html#unique-entry-id-0Mr. President,
As your days in office dwindle down, many people think you are less and less relevant. I disagree, you have plenty of venom left in your poison sack.

You have promoted Bush-loyalists throughout the government to remain as civil servants. And you are now contemplating more assaults against nature and our country. Some of your neo-con friends are even advocating that you pardon everyone who tortured in your name. What torture? You said we didn't torture.

Anytime someone mentions Bush and torture in the same sentence it evokes a comparison to other leaders in history that have tortured like Hitler.

So I understand the temptation to compare you to Hitler. Hitler is evil perfected without any redeeming qualities. I guess people could use Pinochet from Chile as well although he is not as well known in the States.

Still, Auschwitz and Birkenau rang a bell with people around the world after you established secret prisons and Guantanimo.

As a human race we want to believe that by looking back at the death camps we would never allow it to happen again, and yet the Israelis and your administration have both been a party to some of the same behavior that was a staple for the Nazis throughout Hitler's reign, torture.

Psychologists have long proven that ordinary people, given the right set of circumstances can and will inflict serious pain on others. Right-wing nationalism patriotism and fear are key elements to rationalize torture. Sound familiar?

There are many blogs that detail many damning similarities between you and Hitler.

As tempting as it is to find an answer for your behavior, you are not Hitler. You ARE responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths, but you did it without the same focused efficiency as Hitler's administration. Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, you read The Pet Goat while America was under attack. Hitler was planning for a thousand-year reich, You were only looking for a twenty year GOP reign. Hitler's speeches could motivate hundreds of thousands of people to follow him into war. Your speeches only make some people want to follow you to a bar.

I firmly believe that you didn't plan to kill so many people when you invaded Iraq. You just didn't care how many people would die to create your neo-con's view of what Iraq should be.

You were blissfully ignorant, and your lack of intellectually curiosity guaranteed Rumsfirld, Gonzalez, and Cheney a free hand without worrying about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Convention or human rights in general.

Rumsfield Gonzalez and Cheney were especially good at running amuck especially when it came to eliminating habeas corpus and torturing suspects caught in sweeps across Iraq and Afghanistan.

Take General Geoffrey Miller, the commander from Guantanimo, for example. He was considered an expert in interrogation, so he was sent to Abu Gharib to "improve the flow of information" and instructed interrogators about how to make suspects talk.

Other experts such as doctors and psychiatrists who had sworn an oath to first do no harm were very involved in torture. Psychiatrists were used to break people down with a combination of psychological techniques and overt torture.

Rather than use them to help U.S. Army Gen. Michael Oates and others like him who are significantly short of psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health personnel, you choose to use them to help torture suspects to extract information which is historically considered as unreliable.

Since the expose on the treatment of our soldiers at Walter Reed demonstrated how much you care for soldiers, it was no surprise that thousands of soldiers with serious traumatic brain injuries and many thousands of other soldiers with mental trauma injuries would come in second to torturing suspects.

This week in The Washington Post, a Special Operations interrogator who has served 14 years and became part of an elite team of interrogators in Iraq wrote about his bitter disappointment with the torture techniques used by your military.

He called the interrogator's use of torture as "deeply flawed; ineffective and un-American." I think he was being kind. He also credits your use of torture as directly contributing to thousands of American soldier's deaths.

Your interview with Charlie Gibson this week confirmed that you finally admitted how incompetently you prosecuted the war and the economy.

You may want to be remembered as the man who liberated the people of Iraq, but Guantanimo and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, jailed, and tortured will always come to the minds of people around the world throughout history junior and that stain just won't wash off junior.

On the positive side, your interview with Gibson shows that you may finally passed the denial phase.
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: December 1, 2008 9:02:07 PM CST
To: guzmatom@mac.com

On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.

We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.

Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message.

Thank you again for taking the time to write.]]>