Editor:
Recent news reports indicate 20 of the last 39 Guantanamo Bay prisoners are eligible for release. After 20 years, some still can’t be tried because they were tortured. The George W. Bush administration endorsed torture, an international war crime, thereby inspiring innumerable new terrorists.
Do taxpayers know Guantanamo costs $13 million annually for each prisoner, according to U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff? The Clinton administration arrested the 1993 Twin Tower bombers, convicted them in court, and put them in jail. They didn’t become terrorist martyrs.
Anyone who read “The Looming Tower” or watched it on Netflix, knows how easily 9/11 was avoidable. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unnecessary debacles.
Bush was installed by the Electoral College, not America’s voters. So was President Donald Trump.
Trump did, and still does, praise Russian President Vladimir Putin. He drove divisions among our allies, weakening NATO. He, supported by right-wing media, accomplished Putin’s goal of weakening America by dividing us more than ever since the Civil War. People praising Putin aren’t patriots.
There is a National Popular Vote proposal, saying that whenever enough states pass it to total 270 Electoral College votes, all those states will assign their electors to the national popular vote winner.
No constitutional amendment needed, it just skips straight to making the national popular vote winner become president. States with 195 votes so far have signed on.
Pennsylvania’s Legislature, with 20 electoral votes, should pass the National Popular Vote resolution to end Electoral College disasters.
Jane Beck
Brecknock Township
Source: Berkshire mont
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