Subject: Illegitimate: After three years of trying without success to train hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to defend their country, I can only conclude that theocracy trumps democracy. The trainees' commitment to their particular Islamic sect is stronger than their commitment to democracy. And with the king of Saudi Arabia now accusing us of being "illegitimate" foreign occupiers of Iraq, shouldn't President Bush get the message and let them solve this on their own? The occupants of the White House have proved that they are incompetent. Other recent presidents have been caught in untruths and paid a price for it. The members of the Bush administration, including the president, keep trying to tell the media and the American people things that are not quite true, and they keep being exposed — most recently for the firing of federal prosecutors. They haven't learned that if they told the truth, the subject would disappear from the public consciousness instead of taking on a life of its own. People who do not learn from the past and from their mistakes are incompetent and unqualified for their job. I