Subject: Learning from experience: President Bush will go to any lengths to blame others for his own shortcomings. Unable to accept responsibility and learn from experience, the president accuses Democratic leaders in Congress of seeking to substitute their own judgment for that of the generals in the field. He says nothing of the generals whose advice he dismissed and whom he and his administration treated with contempt. The president says nothing of the distorted intelligence he repeated endlessly to justify the war, or the cockeyed predictions about the flowering of democracy throughout the Middle East. The American people have had more than enough. Congress provided funding for our troops in Iraq; President Bush vetoed the funding. I'm sorry my president no longer supports the troops who are giving their lives to protect me. The Iraqi people have to settle their differences through political negotiation. The likelihood they will do so while American troops fight and die is exactly nil. It's time to bring this fiasco to an end. Donald