The American people realize that President Bush has the most secret administration in recent memory. In fact, I go back to the WWII generation and can't remember a more secretive one. That is the way he and V.P. Chaney operate; it is part of their culture. They don't believe in the checks and balances of a Democracy and they use the tragic events of 9-11 and fear to deceive the country.
The problem is compounded by the news media in general and more specifically by T.V. journalists and their networks. They have been intimidated by Bush and Chaney and have failed to investigate and report the many misdeeds by them. They failed to seek the truth about the so called threat from Iraq prior to the invasion and occupation of that country. They actually promoted Iraq as having WMD on their own with out asking or seeking proof. And now we know that those weapons did not exist.
Journalists only started to report the falsehoods and the facts after several books were written about the failures of Mr. Bush especially concerning Iraq. Then the election of Democrats to congress in the November 2006 elections opened them up a little more.
The news media, the President, and the Vice President failed the American people. The following is a statement made by President John F. Kennedy in February 1962 on the twentieth anniversary of the Voice of America.
"You are obliged to tell our story in a truthful way, to tell it, as Oliver Cromwell said about his portrait, 'Paint us with all our blemishes and warts, all those things about us that may not be so immediately attractive.'
We compete with those who are our adversaries who tell only the good stories. But the things that go bad in America, you must tell that also. And we hope that the bad and the good is sifted together by people of judgment and discretion and taste and discrimination, that they will realize what we are trying to do here.
We seek a free flow of information. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
Those words of President Kennedy over 40 years ago are more timely and relevant today than ever before. If Mr. Bush and the news media followed his words America and its people would be much safer and better off today.
