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Letter: Voters filled with fear

The Columbian
Published: July 7, 2014, 12:00am

Charles Krauthammer’s June 26 op-ed column “Obama’s abdication in Iraq has extremely high price” is typical of the strategy on the part of the Republican Party and their apologists to blame President Obama for the disastrous problems created by the George W. Bush administration and the current refusal of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to do anything resembling governing.

Krauthammer concedes the responsibility of the Bush administration for the unnecessary invasion of Iraq and its consequences; a borrowed expenditure of a trillion dollars; and the creation of the terrorist organization, ISIL, that now threatens to turn Iraq into its own stronghold. And then he blithely dismisses all that as water under the bridge. He goes on to blame President Obama for the Status of Forces agreement whereby no American troops were left stationed in Iraq, an agreement negotiated by Bush, not Obama.

The fact that congressional Republicans currently are the ones sabotaging government, the environment, immigration reform, health care and the economy is irrelevant to their propaganda machine. They blame Obama for it all.

And yet these masters of disaster are predicted to win a majority, possibly in both houses of Congress. How can that be? After Bush’s re-election, a British newspaper headline asked “Are Americans stupid?” The answer is no, we’re not. But Republican voters are a fear-filled people. Religious and political demagogues keep them constantly alarmed. We all should be alarmed — over the prospect of a Republican-controlled government.

Joel Littauer

Vancouver

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