Letter writer Pilar Shea's "Bush's Big Lie" [Nov. 3] is typical of the schizophrenic relationship Bush-haters have with the former president.
On the one hand, they call him a moron; on the other, a Machiavellian schemer. Can one be as mentally challenged as he is sometime portrayed, and yet hoodwink heads of foreign states?
A third possibility, buzzed by the pacifists, is of Bush being a puppet on a string. String-puller Colin Powel went before the United Nations with supposedly convincing evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Why does this Svengali get a free pass from the schizoids?
Slick Willie repeatedly warned that Saddam was a bad moon rising that needed to be eclipsed. However, being busy at the dorm, I mean White House, discussing down under affairs with Monica, he did nothing. But Hillary voted for the invasion because her sources told her that the CIA's intelligence was correct. Furthermore, Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector in Iraq, couldn't categorically assert that Saddam didn't have nuclear weapons.
How about an updated, more diverse, inclusive refrain of "Powell, Willie, Hilary lied. People died"?
Joao R. Caxide, Manchester