Letter of the Day: Benghazi and Bush

Benghazi and Bush

EDITOR: After reading Kirk Moeller's "concerns" about the attack in Benghazi ("Benghazi questions," Letters, Tuesday), I find his need to know the "truth" ringing just a wee bit hollow. This is just the latest in a long line of attacks by the right trying to take President Barack Obama down. If you look at any right-wing blog, you'll find the vitriol and rancor on this topic to be never-ending and generally without merit.

I have to wonder where Moeller was when the Bush administration fabricated the basis for the war in Iraq - the war that left 4,500 American servicemen dead, countless numbers with life-altering injuries and the nation's finances in shambles. It took us almost 10 years to extricate ourselves from a war that never should have taken place. How much of the hundreds of billions of dollars that were wasted could have been used to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and countless other uses?

For the first time in our nation's history, a president sanctioned the torture of prisoners. The question that Moeller should be asking is: When is the U.S. government going to investigate the Bush administration? The biggest mistake we made was to let George W. Bush walk.

TIM McFARLIN

Santa Rosa