Reagan appointee calls for Bush impeachment, prosecution

So this is what it sounds like when a Republican puts country over party. We should be hearing a lot more of it. Highly, highly recommended reading. This is no liberal, folks. He was an advisor to Reagan, and is currently a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institute. Excerpts:

Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush’s Iraq war.

There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guard soldiers available to help with rescue efforts and patrol against looting.

The situation is the same in Mississippi.

The National Guard and helicopters are off on a fool’s mission in Iraq.

The National Guard is in Iraq because fanatical neoconsevatives in the Bush administration were determined to invade the Middle East and because the incompetent Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld refused to listen to the generals, who told him there were not enough regular troops available to do the job. (. . .)

Why can’t the U.S. government focus on America’s needs and leave other countries alone? Why are American troops in Iraq, instead of protecting our own borders from a mass invasion by illegal immigrants? Why are American helicopters blowing up Iraqi homes instead of saving American homes in New Orleans?

How can the Bush administration be so incompetent as to expose Americans at home to dire risks by exhausting American resources in foolish foreign adventures? What kind of “homeland security” is this?

All Bush has achieved by invading Iraq is to kill and wound thousands of people, while destroying America’s reputation. The only beneficiaries are oil companies capitalizing on a good excuse to jack up the price of gasoline and Osama bin Laden’s recruitment.

What we have is a Republican war for oil company profits, while New Orleans sinks beneath the waters.