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.