Having read The Daily Astorian’s editorial of March 19 (“An anniversary not celebrated”), I was not surprised at the collection of nonsense that came spewing out as simply another in a long series of your anti-Bush diatribes. It was, again, an example of the same old charges that the war in Iraq was based on a lie and that President Bush is inept.

One point your editorials never mention is the fact that Bush is fighting a two-front war: one in Iraq, and the other in Washington, D.C. That’s where the war is being undermined by a long list of mostly Democrat liberal and duplicitous politicians, greedy for power, who will do anything to attain it, regardless of what happens to our nation. Those are the same ones who nearly unanimously voted to give Bush authority to invade Iraq.

Many of them, notably presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, try to maintain a balancing act in urging that we hang out the white flag of surrender and bring our “defeated” troops home (as your editorial urged), yet not having the courage to simply cut off the funds, which they could legally do.

The catch, of course, is that if our forces achieve victory and help establish a viable Iraqi government, those members of the Treason Obstructionist Party (Democrats) would be left hanging out to dry. A victory by the U.S. would be their worst nightmare, and would precipitate their demise.

All their efforts, aided and abetted by the left wing mainstream media, have been directed to ensure the defeat of our forces in order to bring down Bush. It’s a sad and sickening thought that our country has witnessed such a reprehensible gang to have weaseled their way up to where they can destroy our once-mighty nation.

You laughably mentioned that Bush’s “place in history will be as the most inept American president of the modern era.” That, of course, is impossible because that dubious distinction is already written in stone; it’s a tie between Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

Once again, I remind you that Harry Truman, one of our most vilified presidents, is now honored as a courageous chief executive who made the tough decisions, and stuck with them, in the face of fierce, vicious opposition, very similar to what Bush is doing.

E. ROBERT NASSIKAS

Astoria