Jonathan Worthley seems to be out of touch with reality when he claims George Bush has made this country safe since 9-11. (BDN Sept. 17) We are no more safe today than we were before 9-11. For Bush and Cheney, Homeland Security existed only as an occasion for plunder, payoffs and posturing.

A study made recently by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that Bush, Cheney and other top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national threat after 9-11, and led the nation to war with Iraq on the basis of false information that culminated with military actions on March 19, 2003. As a result, each week more U.S. soldiers are killed in action while suicide bombs and airstrikes destroy the lives of hundreds of Iraqi citizens with no end in sight.

The U.S. is now on the road to fiscal ruin with a $9.7 trillion deficit caused mainly by the Bush-Cheney war and passage of the $700 billion rescue package to stabilize shaky financial markets pushes the deficit even higher.

A recent poll has 76 percent of Americans saying the country is going in the wrong direction.

I consider the Bush-Cheney administration to be the worst in this country’s history, a failure at home and abroad and financially corrupt.

Dee C. Brown Jr.

Bangor