H O W A R D S B E N D

We all know that every president is not perfect.  Many of our illustrious leaders have led the country into war under false pretenses, or have been involved in scandals that have cost tax payers millions of dollars, or oversaw racist policies that have affected millions of people.  You don’t have to go back to Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears, or the suspicious sinking of the USS Maine that led us into the Spanish American War under William McKinley, or the selling of US oil reserves with kickbacks creating The Teapot Dome Scandal under Warren G. Harding to find horrendous scandals involving our elected leaders.

We can start right here in the 1960s with LBJ who happened to fabricate the phony attack on a warship in the Gulf of Tonkin which lead to a decade of horrific war and the death of 55,000 Americans at the cost of hundreds of billions to the US tax payer.

And then there is our friend Richard Nixon, who escalated the war in Vietnam and secretly ordered the US bombing of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand without Congressional approval.  There were no impeachment hearings here.  Oh yeah, I hear that he spied illegally on his political opponents and the got involved in that Watergate mess.  Yes, he was on his way to impeachment and conviction, but only after a very long, drawn out fight.  We won’t even mention the corrupt deal in which Gerald Ford pardoned this crooked politician.

My favorite is the rough and tough Ronald Reagan.  Here is a president that blatantly violated two acts of Congress.  First, it was forbidden for any US company or the government to do business with the terrorist regime of Iran and yet we were selling them millions of dollars of munitions to fight an ally in the Middle East.  Then we used the illegal funds, that were money-laundered throughout the world, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua, which again was forbidden by an act of Congress.   I believe that Ron Reagan served out two full terms as president.  He should have been impeached twice.

And let us not forget our good friend George W. bush who led this country into a war with questionable motives in Iraq, using fabricated material and testimony leading to evidence of “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” This war led to the death of hundred of thousands of Iraqi people and approximately 5,000 US soldiers. It estimated to ultimately cost the US about 4 trillion dollars and has destroyed any hope of peace in the Middle East for the next hundred years

You are going to convict Donald Trump for asking a leader of another country for a “favor?”   There has been no war and no cost to the US tax payer.  It is just diplomacy.   “It happens all the time.”