Clarke, Woodward may be on to somethingLAST SUNDAY I watched a "60 Minutes" segment featuring reporter Bob Woodward talking about the president. I also recently watched another "60 Minutes" program featuring Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism specialist in the White House. Sure, sure, they are selling books. Yet both men seem to be on to something.
I think not much has changed since the 1970s. After all, we are still screaming about high gas prices. And many of our cars are gas guzzlers. Woodward mentions the president's connections to the Saudi ambassador. Could all this talk about war for oil, Halliburton, Saudi connections, etc., be true? It appears that President Bush has some type of deal with his buddies the Saudis who are willing to adjust oil production to lower prices just before our upcoming election. Is asking the Saudis to increase oil production to influence our presidential election a bigger offense than the GOP bugging a Democratic Party office? When are we going to stand up and say we are sick of this and we are not taking it anymore? I am writing to judges who are deciding sentences for persons convicted of Wall Street-related crimes. I am writing to my congressman, my senator, my president to let them know what I think, and it's not easy, especially when I'm tired after a long day of work. I think people in the Middle East and other parts of the world think we are morons. After all, we just seem to keep repeating the same dumb mistakes.
MICHAEL AMARAL © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.
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