Mr. President, will our nerves EVER be allowed to heal?

[Bluebear]

'A mental health survey conducted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks found that about 40 percent of 4,739 Pentagon staff who responded were at high risk for post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, depression, generalized anxiety or alcohol abuse.'

Of course, this doesn't matter to Bush or the Republicans who want him re-elected at any cost. It doesn't matter to Tom Ridge, who explains that the latest alerts are thanks to George W. Bush's " leadership in the war against terror" (http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0471.xml)

It doesn't matter to them that there are flight attendants who can't fly, that there are firefighters who left the force on disability due to stress, that some people still can't hear a plane without instinctively looking to the sky to see if it might plummet into their city, that parents are uneasy sending their kids off to school, that some people's nerves are finally healing only to be sent into hypervigilance once again due to a terror alert that is based on 3+ year old information.

No, it's more important that Kerry's post-convention attention is pre-empted. It's more important to this adminisatration that it is painted to look like it is doing its job. It's crucial that Abu Ghraib is forgotten, that WMD's are forgotten. Fuck the citizen's well-being, there's an election to be won; and it's sick.

Thanks for letting me rant.

[Bluebear]

1. I'm finally pissed enough to write a LTTE, this is the gist of it.

[Sugarbleus]

2. I think your letter is spot on.

I heard a bobble head on network news talking about NOT sending out all these alerts to people, like bushco does, unless there is REAL tactile evidence that something is about to happen. In that case, evacuate the damn place; otherwise,keep it quiet and set the appropriate authorities upon the task of securing and snooping out the bad guys........

If not for merely political gain, these tactics, at the very least, are completely insensitive showing absolute incompetence and mismanagment of the situation. LET US HEAL. Very good. Send it.
:thumbsup:

[Bluebear]

3. Thanks for your input sugar

Gonna tweak it a bit and send it off. At least it will make me feel better.