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Use GOP standards to measure Bush
The Downing Street Memo is finally beginning to get some traction, and hurray for that. How is it possible since the day Bill Clinton took office, certain Republicans were hell-bent on impeaching him, no matter how trivial or relevant the charge?
But here we have George W. Bush: honest-to-goodness military escapist using Daddy's influence; huge questions behind his "win" in Florida in 2000 (we won't mention Ohio in 2004); and now a boatload of questions behind his seeming need to prove his macho cowboyhood by dethroning Saddam, even if that meant multiple and persistent lies to the American nation.
We all know when Clinton lied, no one died. It's time to look critically and objectively at Bush, using the Republicans' own standards applied to Clinton just a few years ago. Be brave! Be fair! Investigate!

Roberta S. Wright
Tucson


Memo proves wrongdoing
The Downing Street Memo isn't just a smoking gun: It's a DNA match, a confession, a positive fingerprint match and an eye-witness identification all rolled up into one.
It is clear George W. Bush committed the worst crime ever by any political leader in the history of the nation, yet the media keeps acting as if it's no big deal. It's a huge deal. Simply to ignore it is a sin.
The years of the Bush presidency will be remembered as a time when American media practiced stenography to power - and when once-great newspapers became little more than "the kept press."
What do we do when thousands of people are dying because of a president's deceit? How we answer that question today has a lot to do with what sort of country we become tomorrow.

Robert Woodruff
Architect, Tucson