It was sort of gratifying at the time to read that my president took full responsibility for the outright lie exhorted by the CIA regarding the Iraqi purchase of uranium from Niger. But after thinking about it, I wasn’t sure just what “taking full responsibility” really meant.

So, just for fun and games and for a better understanding, I decided I would take full responsibility myself since I was a U.S.Air Force intelligence agent associated with the CIA in my earlier years, my thinking being that it might remove some of the burdensome load from our president’s brain.

Even though I have a mental deficiency, sore shoulders and a bad back, I now find out that “taking full responsibility” is really no load at all – mental or physical.

I encourage all of you government-believing and civic-minded Americans to take “full responsibility.” Then you’ll find out, just as I did, that the president’s statement is just empty political rhetoric and nothing else.

Bill Randall, Winthrop