To George W. Bush
White House,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I saw some of your final press conference today. I wasn't able to see all of it, because l am one of those lucky Americans who had a job to go to this morning. But I got the impression that this was one more attempt to burnish your eight-year record.

Your efforts to polish that sorry record is a pathetic attempt to -- borrowing a phrase from another Republican -- put lipstick on a pig. Your eight years in office has done more harm to this country than Herbert Hoover could ever dream of doing.

Your miserable behavior in office began just before September 11, 2001. We have since learned that you were warned about the attack in a briefing paper entitled, "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." You ignored it. What was missing--Bin Laden on YouTube with model airplanes and little buildings demonstrating what he was about to do?

You followed that performance with your war. You should be prosecuted for war crimes for invading a country that was no threat to the United States. This is exactly what Hitler did with Poland in 1939 and he was justly condemned by the international community for it. Your war has cost nearly 5,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. You should apologize to us all for using 9 / 11 to start a war that many of us all suspect you started so you could be "Commander in Chief" and strut around at least once in a flight suit after your jet fighter landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln. Fact is, you looked ridiculous. Many of us remembered that you bugged out on Vietnam with the help of your daddy's influence getting you into the Texas Air National Guard. And then you even bugged out on that. Some Commander in Chief, sending young men and women to die in a war after your performance in the sixties. You gave new life to the term "chickenhawk."

You should also be prosecuted for war crimes for your policy of torture and secret prisons. You should be condemned by history for illegally wiretapping American citizens by the thousands with your secret program. No, revise that. You should not be condemned by history. You should be indicted by a federal grand jury.

And you should apologize to the American people for letting a major American city drown. Again, you ignored warnings that Katrina threatened the levies. You didn't send help for almost a week while American citizens gathered in the Louisiana Superdome without food or water. You didn't even know about the devastation until some aides put together a DVD for you to look at.

And I haven't even mentioned that this country is now suffering the worst economic cataclysm, debacle, catastrophe since the Great Depression. Millions of us have lost our homes and our retirement accounts. Congratulations, $2 billion pounded into the sand in Iraq every WEEK, and total deregulation of the financial markets and you didn't think something BAD was going to happen? Or were you too busy clearing brush on your "ranch" to notice?

I could go on, but I don't have the time. You lied to us repeatedly. You let a CIA agent get outed to satisfy a political vendetta. You called the United States Constitution "just a goddamn piece of paper" at a meeting of Congressional Republicans, and you acted on that belief. You keep saying history will judge your administration. Well, I would be willing to bet that you will go down in history as not just the WORST president this country has ever had. You will be remembered in the history books as a disaster.

Seven more days.

Yours truly,
Newsguy