Teleconference was transparent ploy

Editor,

The latest attempt by our President Bush to create a quite false impression among the American public on what is happening in Iraq is particularly offensive to me. On Oct. 13 he held a "teleconferencing" with 10 soldiers from the Army's 42nd Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq. It was staged, scripted, rehearsed, and a totally transparent propaganda ploy to, once again, hoodwink the American public and paint a picture which defies the facts.

This choreographed teleconferencing was staged to simply match President Bush's goals for war in Iraq and the vote on a new Iraq constitution.

Constitutions do not bring a nation together. People bring nations together. And it is quite clear, regardless of how much paper they spew out with this forced Iraqi "constitution," the deep divisions in this part of the world will continue.

I resent being toyed with and thought to be thoroughly gullible by our administration. I have been consistent, lo these many months since 9/11, in criticizing our administration's policies and approaches to international terrorism. It is not because of my politics. It is because of my deeply held beliefs in good communication, truth telling and putting what is good for America and the world ahead of politics.

A house of cards will ultimately fall. The "cards" are dishonesty, deceit, politics above true patriotism, financial scheming above the good for our people, and abusing the center of power in America.

Many doors to many rooms in this 'house of cards' are beginning to be opened revealing chicanery at its most dangerous and far reaching levels.

Bob McClellan

Polson