President George W. Bush’s Inauguration Speech

The following letter was written one hour after his speech. My thoughts at the time.

Dear Senator,

I am writing to express my concerns regarding the next four years in our great country. I am a married father of two boys who has never missed voting in an election. I also consider myself to be the most patriotic person I know. I proudly served four years in the U.S. Army and enjoyed the honor of protecting America’s freedoms.

This said, President George W. Bush’s inauguration speech has prompted me to write my Senator for the first time in my life. To be honest, I found this speech to be the most frightening inauguration speech ever given by a President. Is it true this President has declared a Freedom Crusade? After listening to the speech once I felt I should replay it one more time to be sure I understood where he was going with it. Though he did not use the word Crusade, he may as well have.

This President has failed miserably to spread freedom to just one country, Iraq. Barely able to manage this attempt at spreading freedom why should we ever trust him to conduct a world wide Freedom Crusade? If his model of Iraq is what we can expect for our world, we all must be frightened by this man.

With no mention of Iraq in this speech and his failure to address any real domestic issues, I am left to believe he is clueless to the issues that matter. Our boys are dying in a war we should have never been involved in. Our schools are failing to keep up with the rest of the world. We are exporting our wealth to a Communist China at record levels. The economy is stagnant. Our border security is laughable. Free trade is not fair trade. I could go on for twenty more pages and still not mention a Freedom Crusade.

Our founding fathers believed the biggest threat to freedom was government. They were right. This President wants to give freedom to the world yet restrict our freedoms here in America with a poorly thought out Patriot Act.

In closing, my reason for writing is to make a request. Please fight this President with everything you have, head on. Even if you are sure to lose the battle, fight for the war. Inflict as many casualties as possible at every opportunity given. Stop him a little at a time. Slow his momentum. This will give us less to repair in four years. I am counting on you. My children are counting on you. Our country is counting on you.


Sincerely,