[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: From Today's *New York Times*

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
>From Today's *New York Times*
http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1121287670.shtml


   To the Editor:

   "At White House, a Day of Silence on Role of Rove" (front page, July
   12) reveals another example of the despicable conduct of high
   officials in the Bush White House.

   First, they fixed the intelligence and facts to further their agenda
   for war. Then they punished patriotic public servants who disagreed
   with them, including Gen. Eric K. Shinseki; Paul H. O'Neill, the
   former Treasury secretary; and Richard A. Clarke, a former
   counterterrorism official.

   Then they attacked Iraq without provocation, killing tens of thousands
   of people who did us no harm and posed us no danger.

   Finally, in violation of signed treaties and contrary to long-held
   values, they besmirched the moral authority of our country by
   approving, justifying and carrying out torture.

   Not since the days of Richard M. Nixon has the White House been in the
   hands of such dishonorable people.

   Kenneth J. Kahn
   Long Beach, N.Y., July 12, 2005