How do you know your elected representative thinks you are dumb as a box of rocks? Much of the time, we wonder what they’re doing in Washington — too big to fail, taking away SSI, Patriot Act, CAFTA, NAFT, GATT, favored car producers, grants for China, rebuilding nations they’ve bombed (in our name), tax breaks for the wealthiest, grants to get shrimp to run on a treadmill, and much more. 

However, Peter Welch really takes the cake. First, he expected us to believe that the EPA could change its policies when Vermonters all know Congress makes the laws and the agencies implement them. But Peter got no challenges from Vermont media, so why not crank out more of that fragrant stuff being spread on the fields?

But now he disparages the sacrifice Vermonters have made by their forced participation in the illegal invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries that Congress has put us into war against. Welch’s latest news release tells us he’s sponsored a bill to end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan — but, typical of a professional politician, he adds a caveat: Except those troops involved in fighting terrorism.

Isn’t that what we’ve been told Vermont troops have been doing? Oh, wait a minute, except for the last deployment, where Gen. Michael Dubie told the Legislature that our fellow Vermonters wouldn’t be in harm’s way because they would be teaching. How many have died? 

Does Peter Welch have any idea what his job is? He and his fellow Democrats’ campaign promise was to end the “war” (their illegal assaults on other nations) but they continue what Bush started.

Laura Brueckner

Waterbury 

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