Costly war errors mount

With tears I watched the last combat troops leave Iraq. Bush and the GOP said it would last not six months, but it has cost $1 trillion, which they could never justify our blood and treasure.

Hannity yelled about rape rooms. Officially it was WMD (on fabricated intel). Wolfowitz’s white paper during Bush-I, asserting that we could establish a democracy to ensure affordable oil, made sense, but was morally wrong and has failed.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and her GOP passed legislation making us more dependent on oil and Dick Cheney more rich, while other industrialized nations converted to non-petroleum-dependent revitalized economies, rebuilding their infrastructures.

In a few years we will fall from being the world’s strongest economy, traced to Bush-II’s war, eight years of our brave and true men and women dying after he declared, “mission accomplished.” Rep. McMorris Rodgers supported every policy of Bush, and every one failed, miserably. Now someone wants to re-elect her, so she can oppose every policy to correct the factual Bush failures. No single person is at fault, but every member of the GOP who still supports already failed policies that left the middle class financially devastated and the corporations more rich (factually) is.

Ed Terhaar

Spokane