It is a sad but true fact that our foreign policy, our credibility and our money have been severely damaged by the failed Bush administration. They have lied to us and the world for their own personal gain. They have caused the deaths of many of our young people and many Iraqis as well. They have taken billions of our tax dollars for their cronies and thise while we suffer here at home and poor children don't even have health care in this land of plenty. How cruel is that?

They turned their backs on those same brave veterans when they came home wounded as if they were throwaway pieces of meat. They were asleep at the switch, supposedly watching over homeland security and let over a thousand Southern citizens die during Katrina. Now they are devaluing that same money they have lied to get their grimy little hands on.

In other parts of the world tribunals are hunting down members of murderous regimes for war crimes they committed against their countrymen and other nations. Yet Bush and his cohorts have orchestrated this debacle and are getting away with murder and treason if you ask me. Is it any wonder why people of the world hate us so with our leaders' lies and double standards?

They caused bombs to drop on innocent people and it's a mistake. Saddam killed his own people and no longer has a head to carry with him to Hell or wherever he went. Not that he didn't deserve it. Many of them probably believe that he is in paradise having at those 70 virgins, but they had better think again.

Frankly I don't see any difference between George W. Bush and his Republican Party and Saddam and his Baath party. Both parties seemed to be out for personal gain and cared nothing about the rules of engagement or the lives that stood in their way. If party affiliation causes our elected officials to do anything under the sun for the good of the party, I wish we could get rid of parties. Let's just do what is fair and equitable for all of our people and the people of the world.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that our money is worthless paper and I almost agree with him. It now takes nearly a truckload of that stuff to go into a grocery store to buy food. Then at the gas pumps a 50-dollar bill is now chump change, which it takes most people a full days work to earn. But you can fill up your gas tank with a 50 if you drive two-door, three-cylinder vehicles. Where does it all end?

Once the richest of the rich have all of the money, is the game over? What then? Or will you wait until total chaos breaks out so you can shoot the poor folks down in the streets who are trying to survive? It has happened in other counties recently.

Do you want to know what will stop this OPEC/Bush oilmen manipulation of oil prices and wrecking our lives? A fully electric vehicle will put a stop to their foolishness quickly. No gas tank to fill or anywhere to be seen. Plus no emissions into the air, no spills of gas into our rivers and streams from runoff due to accidents and ruptured gas tanks or radiators spilling anti-freeze. Less noise pollution as well from the internal combustion engines. It's a win-win formula for all of us, except the oil cartels. If we put a fleet of electric cars on the road and in commercials the world over, that alone will change the price of a barrel of oil. Besides, oil and other natural resources are running out. They won't last forever. Think about it!

-- Harry Coles Jr. St. Matthews

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