DESTROYING THEOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN, CREATING ONE HERE

President Bush did what he had to do with the security information made
available to him before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The attack gave him
the support he needed from the American people and Congress to generate the
war on terror that consumed our budget surplus and Social Security funds.
If the devastating Sept. 11 attack had happened during President Clinton's
term, there would have been a cry for impeachment and more special
prosecutors. Court-appointed President Bush came out a hero smelling like a
rose. Why?

In addition to World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and a number
of other military engagements, we now have domestic wars on poverty, drugs
and terrorists. The war on poverty increased the number of unwed mothers
and welfare recipients. The war on drugs generated a need for more prisons
to house our confiscated youth without stopping the flow of drugs or
hurting the wealthy drug lords. The war on terrorism has turned this nation
into a police state.

President Bush used our armed forces to eliminate bin Laden's evil Taliban
theocracy in Afghanistan. However, he is busy creating one.

ADAM G. THOMPSON