To the Editor:

One of your recent letter writers, A. J. Buttacavoli, (The San Francisco Chronicle,

May 28), suggests that we should stop "bashing Bush" and show some admiration

and respect and loyalty for the person who now occupies the Oval Office.

Admiration for how in 2000, Bush and the GOP first tried to buy the election; when

that didn't work, they rigged the pre-election polls; when that didn't work, they

rigged the post-election results projections; when that didn't work, they sent in a

screaming mob to stop a legitimate Florida vote recount; and when that didn't

work, they went crying to the Supreme Court, where five right-wing justices

made a completely absurd ruling that gave Bush the Presidency.

Since then Bush has worked very hard to degrade our natural environment, to

increase the split between the rich and the poor, destroy our Constitutional civil

liberties, unbalance the federal budget, create foreign enemies and start an

unnecessary war. Within a few weeks of assuming the Presidency, Bush told the

FBI, NSA and the CIA to "lay off" investigations of the Saudis. Eight months later

the mostly-Saudi fundamentalist terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the

Pentagon. Now Bush and Cheney and their corporate buddies are in

the process of stealing Iraq's oil to fund the construction of an imperial American

corporate police state in Iraq. And it is suggested that we should admire this

person? Sieg heil, mein Herr.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

28 May 2003