In dealing with the Iraq situation, is Congress exercising the same degree of expertise and foresight it has used so successfully in the past on such matters as:

Compensation for its members;

Its ethics (everyday and election);

The budget process;

Tax reform (including P.L. 97-34);

The deficit;

The selective service;

Electing its leadership;

Policy relating to energy and nuclear energy;

Failure to give the “line item veto” power to the president;

The “theater show” of confirming Supreme Court justices;

Its plan to eliminate poverty;

Its strategy in Vietnam;

The circus in Panama;

Its effective strategies in Nicaragua;

Its policy involving the baseball player lockout;

Medicare and Medicaid and its plan to reduce medical costs;

The Social Security disaster;

Its funding of (the deferred portion) the civil service retirement system;

Accepting responsibility for its actions.

Think about it!

Whatever happened to logic, common sense, and conviction? James D. MacArthur Bangor