As I sat watching President George Bush make his State of the Union speech the other night, I kept wishing he would say what he should have said from the start:
We've got this catastrophe on our hands because of the hurricanes that have been hitting our shores and whether the Iraqi people are ready or not, we are ending our three-year stay in their country. We are bringing our troops home to help in recovery from these disasters. We have hundreds of thousands of citizens who have lost everything in these storms and all our time and energy must be concentrated in a great effort to relieve the suffering of these folks as soon as possible. Our people and our country must come first. The world will just have to carry on without us until we get through this crisis.
If the president had said something like this, we all would have awakened from our boredom and the world would have breathed a huge sigh of relief. Bush might even have become the great man he so wants to be!
Warren R. Crackel
Willmar
