Bush critics not sheepish

Bush critics not sheepish
EDITOR:
I'm almost positive a Jan. 11 letter from a Boardman writer wasn't meant to be comedic, but it qualified as such. The gentleman wrote about a recent poll, that named President George W. Bush a villain of 2006. In disagreeing with the poll's conclusions, the letter writer did more labeling than a vendor at a flea market.
In his less than humble opinion, any American who believes Bush is not a true blue hero and the greatest president in history is an "ignorant, ill informed, ludicrous sheep. & quot; Brainwashed by leftist, liberal propaganda. He also states that these same ignoramuses, i.e. Bush critics, believe Hitler, Tojo, Stalin and Saddam were good but misunderstood men.
Where did he come up with all these & quot;facts & quot;? Who knows, but I had to read it a couple times to wade through the garbage and decipher it, especially the sheep reference. I came to the conclusion that maybe the gentleman can't remember last November's election.
Clearly the Democratic congressional takeover was a referendum on Bush, not just about Iraq but everything he has or hasn't done since taking office. Far from being ignorant sheep, the American voter finally woke up and said enough is enough. It's over. Yes, it's unfortunate that the election of 2004 didn't accomplish this ,especially for our soldiers killed or wounded in Iraq since that time. But the time has come to turn the tide and it will be turned. This is the desire of the majority that voted last fall.
Personally, I wouldn't put President Bush in the category of villain. No, he deserves his own special category. A category where an inept, egotistical, stubborn president sends soldiers to their deaths for the wrong reasons, places them in the middle of a centuries old feud, disregards the advice of the generals running the war, takes an economy from surplus to massive deficit and debt, enacts trade policies that cost millions of our jobs, weakens our unions, fails to address the health care crisis, praises Cheney and Rumsfeld, even as they lie, day after day and expects the American public to support an even more asinine Iraq policy.
What name do we give this category? Failure. This is the legacy of George W. Bush. Using the example of sheep given by the Boardman writer, the results of the election mean we are now a nation of bleating hearts. May the sheep lead us out of the darkness.
TIM O'HARA
Austintown
Sitting at traffic lights wastes time and gas
EDITOR:
Don't we all hate when we are trying to complete a project or just a simple task and we run out of something? Sure we do, because that means we have to run to the store, and it's a waste of gas. Well, that's not the only thing wasting our gas; the traffic lights we have to wait at are a waste of gas too.
Depending on the time of the year, most cars either have the heat or the air conditioning on. Using either of these requires us to use gas, leaving cars with less gas to run on. Also, accelerating from a dead stop uses more gas. So between heat and the AC, accelerating from a dead stop, and traffic lights, drivers are wasting a lot of gas.
I think that all traffic lights should be set on a timer. Yes, most traffic lights are on a timer, but there are a few that aren't. For example, the traffic light at Turner Road and Mahoning Avenue in Austintown is not on a timer. If you are traveling on either N. Turner or S. Turner, you must activate the light for it to change. On the other hand, if you are traveling on Mahoning, you have a very good chance of not catching a red light.
As an open-enrollment student at Jackson-Milton High School, traffic lights that aren't on a timer, are a big pain. They are frustrating, time consuming and a gas guzzler. To avoid all of this, I suggest that all traffic lights be set on a timer so they change at an equal rate.
TAYLOR DUGAN
Youngstown