Egocentric man

After the 2004 elections, President Bush declared his slim, disputatious victory to be a mandate and proceeded to pursue the most extreme, unwelcome schemes he and his handlers had long cherished. In 2006, American voters signaled a stunning mandate for change, overturning entrenched incumbents in both houses of Congress. Two-thirds of American voters, the ones Bush works for, have clearly indicated impatience with this failed Iraq occupation. The most experienced advisers from previous administrations have given clear and sage advice on how to proceed, but the puerile president has listened only to those advisers he has always heeded. He now has ordered a large-scale escalation of the number of American sons and daughters trapped in a brutal civil war. This is not a game. The rank cronyism, incompetence and delusional denial of this administration have cost our people far too much. If this egocentric man refuses to obey the law, encourages torture and illegal invasions of privacy and drives our economy into grinding debt for the benefit of war profiteers, he must go. He has committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors. He refuses to heed the will of the people. If any president has ever deserved impeachment, it is this one. Keith Lammers, Collingswood - January 17, 2007