Gutknecht and term limits

08/31/2006

TO THE EDITOR: According to Congressman Gil Gutknecht’s “Term Limit” pledge in the “Contract with America”, he should not be running for Congress this year. Gil promised to quit Congress after 12 years, but clearly he is violating his promise. He even tried to hide the truth by deleting the mention of this pledge in his own online encyclopedia article, but he was stopped. Then, Gil’s campaign manager told the press that people should get their information from a more reliable source! Of course, Gil was the guy trying to make the online article LESS reliable!

Of course, this all makes sense — Gil Gutknecht has gone right along with George Bush in trumpeting the false reasons for the Iraq invasion. Gil no doubt learned from George that if you repeat a lie, hide the facts, and discredit the people who are telling the truth, that many or most of the people will believe you. After all, 60 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq had a “weapons of mass destruction” program, even after the White House, the CIA, and U.S. military have all admitted that it didn’t exist. Keep up the deception, Gil! You might succeed yet! Not!

JON NICHOLSON
Dakota