Letters to the editor for Dec. 29

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• Published December 28, 2007

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Why put up with the politicians?

How much longer are the people going to put up with their worthless politicians? Nothing will change until we vote them out again and again and then maybe things will change. The saying that my senator or representative is good but yours is bad is stupid. They are all bad, both mine and yours. We elect them to represent us but instead they represent themselves and corporate America. Can't people see what is going on? As long as you let them get away with it they will continue.

Never vote for an incumbent. I served my country for over 20 years and for what? So some bunch of politicians can give this country away without firing a shot.

Does no one remember Pearl Harbor? We bought the cheap stuff from Japan which gave them the finances to bomb Pearl Harbor. Now we are doing the same with China. I spent two years in China and was run out in May 1949.

There is nothing wrong with the Chinese people but the government is terrible. They or the Muslims will eventually run this country. Our great politicians can provide money for the health care for illegal aliens but cannot provide for the military retirees who were promised medical care if they completed 20 years of service. What a bunch of lying, rotten bums. I cannot understand why the people put up with it.

Bill Lock, Olympia

Impeach Cheney, then Bush

When impeachment of Cheney and Bush was "taken off the table" by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2006, Congress finally had a Democratic majority and there was promise for making change. Impeachment was viewed as a distraction to this work. But opportunities for change have dimmed, thus weakening Pelosi's case against impeachment.

Meanwhile, the case for impeachment has strengthened. Evidence is mounting of the administration's violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, protecting us from lawless physical and electronic surveillance. Also becoming clearer is evidence of the administration's use of torture. This defies the law Congress passed, as part of the 2006 defense budget, outlawing the use of torture, or cruel and inhuman treatment of detainees being held by the U.S. military and civilian agencies such as the CIA.