Dear Editor,

As I read your column, “Hatch says Demo win could help terrorists” in which Senator Orrin Hatch stated that the terrorists are, “waiting for the Democrats here to take control, let things cool off and then strike again." I would like to remind Senator Hatch who was in control of the federal government on September 11^th, 2001.  It was the Republican Party and not the Democrats.

Let us be real, had Al Gore been our president, the Republican Party would not have rallied behind him to support him as Democrats did with Bush.  No, they would have demanded that he be removed from office.

I would say that the greatest terrorist threat that still resides in this country is folks that will bully the electorate by using fear.  In my opinion, Americans are beginning to wake up to this use of fear by the Republican Party and as you will see the latest alleged terror threat in Britain has done very little to raise Bush’s approval ratings.  By the way, that terror plot is falling apart at the seams before our very eyes.

If the Republicans are thought to be better in fighting this war on terrorism, then why haven’t they caught Osama bin Laden as Bush promised, “Dead or alive”?  Chief Moose caught his terrorists using good old fashioned police work to capture the D.C. snipers and he never said that their capture “was not our top priority” as Bush once stated of bin Laden.  Had he done so, Chief Moose would have been immediately thrown out of office.  Bush should have been thrown out of office for his incompetence at capturing Osama bin Laden.

Sincerely,

Mary MacElveen