Irony

© Patrick T. Power

A recent letter to my home town paper ranted about the New York Times' decision to run a story about the Bush administration's activities with regards to monitoring banking transactions (purportedly in search of terrorists) — a program (SWIFT) which has hardly been keep a secret for the past several years.

I find it ironic that words such as "morally reprehensible" were used, especially when one stops to consider that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice lied — yes, knowingly and willingly lied — to the American people as a matter of precipitating war on a sovereign nation, and murdering — yes, murdering — over 2500 of our fine servicepeople and tens of thousands of Iraqis in the process.

I find it interesting, too, that -- during the whole Hurricane Katrina debacle -- not once did we see an indignant President Bush stand at a podium and rant about the less-than-stellar job his administration was doing in New Orleans and elsewhere. Not once! He offered only excuses and words of praise for "good job, Brownie." Not once did he show disgust over the fact that people were losing their homes (possibly permanently) or dying. Oh, but he did speak out against looting! That was courageous!

Yes... let's show our indignance about a newspaper finally getting around to doing its job and exposing this administration for what it truly is — the worst, most vile, cunning administration this country has ever seen. We the people of the United States of America are this administration's last concern.

In the words of my late father: Puh-thetic!

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