Political theater can be dangerous

To the editor:On March 24 the U.S. House voted to do what the people ordered them to do last November: Bring the troops home.

The president dismissed the action as "political theater" and promised a veto. Through fraud and deceit, the president and vice president invaded Iraq for reasons that did not exist. Political theater?

Also on March 24, President Bush's former deputy secretary of interior pleaded guilty to criminal Abramoff-administration scandals. On the same date, the former deputy attorney general announced he would testify against Attorney General Gonzales and political director Karl Rove in the U.S. attorney firing scandal. Political theater? Yes, just the kind that gets presidents impeached.

Listen to columnist Gene Lyons: "The Bush administration's solitary contribution to the art of governance may be its creative use of what TV comic Stephen Colbert calls 'truthiness.' 'Truthiness,' Colbert said, 'is tearing apart our country. ... Facts matter not at all.'"

BILL D. BURLISON, Advance, Mo.