Published in the Birmingham News on Sunday, 7-8-2007:
The Bush-Cheney administration has sacrificed the lives and limbs of thousands of young Americans in the Iraq war. It has spent billions of dollars of our tax money for a war it said would benefit the people in that country.
Former Gov. Don Siegelman has gone to prison, supposedly because a wealthy businessman gave money to support a lottery the governor thought would benefit the schoolchildren of Alabama. I have bought an occasional Florida lottery ticket myself, but know a small fraction of the costs of the current war could do a lot more to further education in all 50 states.
Siegelman didn't take taxpayers' money or hurt anyone, but was shackled and jailed. It doesn't seem fair. Moreover, it endangers our precious freedom and democracy. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth put it plainly and clearly as our former governor was being taken away: "It's just politics."
Let's join this great American in his call to fight this injustice.
Gary Mansbach
Southside
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