For many Democrats, there is both sadness and vindication in Bush’s imploding presidency. No Democrat wishes anything but the best for America. However, from the beginning Bush showed himself to be a rigid ideologue, a president driven by the hard-right of America who talked of “activist judges” but who was basically appointed to office by judges who stopped the Florida recount in 2000.

The indictment of I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, is only the beginning of scandal that will likely envelop and ultimately define this corrupt administration. Democrats and Republicans have argued over whether Bush makes every decision based on politics, not national security. Time and circumstance are proving Democrats to have been prophetic.

Our national debt is enormous and ticking like a bomb, the poor response to Katrina is directly due to the fact that Bush downgraded FEMA from cabinet level to a subset of the unorganized “Homeland Security” behemoth, and still the Republican propaganda machine claims the “liberal media” is behind it all. When Iran is ever more radical and its president recently said that Israel must be “wiped from the face of the earth,” it is questionable how much progress has been made in Bush’s ill-conceived war in Iraq.

Iraq teeters on the verge of civil war. Its blood feud factions had been held together only by Saddam Hussein’s brutality, and now we’re told to swallow Bush’s “noble” reasons justifying the cost of more than 2,000 American lives?

Mark Tardif, Waterville

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