Bush views debunked

To the editor:

The central element in the Bush worldview is hallucination. He still seems not yet to have realized that all the justifications he presented for invading Iraq have been systematically debunked. He seems unable to see that Iraq is descending into total and bloody chaos or that he has actually promoted rather than reduced terrorism. Even now, he pretends that military action was justified because Iraq just might have developed, at some stage in the future, the ability to produce weapons that could pose a threat to the United States. He seems unable to recognize that the number of "maybes" in this justification does not demand 1100 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths.

On the home front, Bush does not seem to know or care that his policies have put loyal and hard-working Americans out of work, have undermined our health care, have widened the gap between rich and the rest of us, and have run up the biggest budget deficit in history, a deficit that our children will be paying off for generations. But he and his wealthy buddies are OK. Their taxes have been cut, and we'll end up paying this off. And he has the gall to accuse John Kerry of being a tax-and-spend liberal. At least Kerry has a pay-as-you-go philosophy, not a "run up the family debt to give dad a tax cut" philosophy.

JANICE HAYS CHADHA, Cape Girardeau