Democracy Held Hostage: How Neocon Arrogance, George Bush's Incompetence and Dick Cheney's Criminality Subverted the Constitution, Destroyed Iraq and Weakened America. Letters to the Editor 2004-2008

Beginning with the 2004 election, Mr. Duncan became actively engaged in the machinations of the Bush Administration and began a series of hard hitting Letters to the Editor in which he drew readers? attention to Bush and Company?s disastrous policies and activities. His insightful letters, published almost weekly by a local newspaper from 2004 to 2008, constitute a running record of the Iraq war together with thoughtful observations on administration concepts of governance.

With documentation drawn from and attributed to leading media sources, Duncan shines a bright light on the incompetence and failures that led to the deaths of more than 4,000 U. S. service men and women and the permanent maiming of tens of thousands more; the loss of uncounted Iraqi lives and the ravaging of their country; plus a turn toward illegal, near fascist policies at home, all at a cost to the American people of billions of dollar per week.

In the immediate aftermath of the Bush presidency, Mr. Duncan?s easy-to-read letters constitute an accessible history of the period and provide us with a reminder of the attitudes and ideas that have damaged our country both at home and abroad so that we may more readily identify and avoid them in the years ahead.