DUBYA'S LACK OF LEGACY

If George Bush has a legacy it will be the shame of a failed president who wanted to see how much he could get away with to pave his way to power at our expense. When he found out there was little he could do without becoming the butt of critical ridicule and condemnation, he started to fiddle with the Constitution and gave the fear of terrorism as justification for his actions.

When the terrorist tactic failed to justify his veiled rejection of the nation's traditional values of freedom and individuality, he belittled his opponents, called them unpatriotic, disloyal to friends, neighbors and loved ones during times of constant threat from foreign enemies and ethnic sympathizers.

This fear technique, as predicted, was widely rejected, as expected, and he, not the loyal citizenry, was accused of aiding and abetting the enemy at the expense of an unthreatening foreign-born minority. He stands, at the sunset of a discredited regime, a president of low esteem, an enemy of the very values he claimed to be the champion of in the land of freedom he claims he loves.

Bush is branded as the modern version of a Republican of yesteryears, Joseph McCarthy, who spread fears that Russian "commies" planned an atomic attack. It proved just as false as claims of WMDs in the arsenals of Iraq.

Both events caused America great expense, billions spent on national defense that proved to be a waste of wealth that will haunt our nation for generations. Similarities between ambitions of these two politicians should make us realize lies can be the keys to power, can destroy our free democracy.

We said no to Joe years ago. Our vow: say no to Dubya here and now!