Creating terrorists

I am neither a Democrat nor Republican, and thus have no party affiliation in which to conform. This country sat and watched the Republicans waste millions of dollars of the taxpayers' money (yours and mine) to impeach a president for lying about his infidelities while in the White House. That money could have been better used protecting this nation, and stopping terrorism, which the Clinton administration warned the Bush administration about as they were walking out the door. The Bush administration did not take heed. Rather, it used the threats of terrorism to its advantage, and our president sat on 9/11 and read about goats for seven minutes to a group of children, who today, when asked as 11- and 12-year-olds, wonder why the president chose to stay with them rather than leave and tend to the emergency. Our government created 9/11 to attain a greater mission that benefits only members of government. It is not the spread of democracy in the Middle East. Looking at articles and photos from the foreign press, we are certainly not winning their hearts and minds. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Osama bin Laden is brought out every time the government needs to scare us into some kind of knee-jerk reaction. If we want the terrorism to end, our nation should stop invading countries, force-feeding democracy to cultures that don't want it, stop stealing land (or supporting those who do) and raping other nations of their oil. Perhaps then, the "terrorists" will leave us alone. Richard Bauer, Mount Ephraim - Published in the Courier Post, October 4, 2006