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A Confusing Tale

America is safer, but if Al Qaeda attacks around Nov. 2 we may have to postpone the election (especially if President Bush trails in the polls).

All the intelligence on Iraq was wrong, but the war was right.

Sen. John Kerry doesn’t have the combat experience to be commander in chief, but Bush’s National Guard records were inadvertently destroyed.

Millionaires Kerry and John Edwards cannot speak for the common man, but millionaires Bush and Dick Cheney can.

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We have given Iraq freedom from oppression, but not from getting its people killed by the dozen.

Are Lewis Carroll and George Orwell alive and kicking, writing the history of our day?

Fred Bauman

Riverside

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