BUSH'S HYPOCRISY

Re: "Government seeks limit on medical privacy rights," March 22.

After reading that the Bush regime is dropping the requirement at the
heart of federal rules protecting the privacy of medical records,
something now has to be done to curtail this hypocrisy.

This ruling, favored by the insurance companies, greatly decreases
the public's ability to control dissemination of their personal
medical records. This is hypocritical considering that George W. Bush
sent the papers he generated as Texas governor to his daddy's library
so the papers fall under tighter federal disclosure regulations
instead of Texas law. He also ordered keeping Ronald Reagan's
presidential papers from public disclosure, including those covering
Mr. Bush's father and members of the current administration's senior
staff.

Mr. Bush runs anti-drug ads on TV showing a link between illegal drug
usage and terrorism. I don't condone the use of illegal drugs, but
since most of the Sept. 11 hijackers came from wealthy Saudi Arabian
families, the question must be asked, what is the source of that
wealth? (Answer: Oil purchased by the United States.) So why isn't
the Bush administration linking use of gas-guzzling vehicles with
terrorism? Check out daddy Bush's connection with the Carlyle Group
and Dubya's oil ties.

There's more to being a president than dropping bombs on a Third World nation.

William Miller, Duncanville