Letters to the Editor
jedimaster
Published Letters: 646 Editor's Choice: 70
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I love...
[Read the article: White House: Kerry insulted the troops. Kerry: No, I insulted Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]how the Republican party speaks in really bad action movie language. "The Dems will pay once again for you arrogance."
It's like watching a Bond movie. But not a good Bond movie. Like a Roger Moore Bond movie.
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Elephantman...
[Read the article: White House: Kerry insulted the troops. Kerry: No, I insulted Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I get what you're saying. Yes, John Kerry really can't talk himself out of a paper bag anymore.
But what's more insulting to the troops: Botching a gag at a speech or sending them into a war based on lies, misappropriating millions of dollars that could've been used to equip them to fight the lie based war, engaging in inadequate planning so that maybe they wouldn't be faced with an insurgency due to their lie-based war, or lying to their faces about how long their going to be there?
I ask you, which is more insulting: A poorly written and executed joke? Or a myriad of bald faced lies RIGHT TO THE FACES OF THE AMERICANS IN COMBAT!
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about baloney...
[Read the article: White House: Kerry insulted the troops. Kerry: No, I insulted Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anon,
I'll rack up JK's baloney with the daily diatribe of lies that spew from the White House spin machine at an ever increasing clip.
Hey, you guys see that?
We just turned another corner.
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Just what I like to see:
[Read the article: White House: Kerry insulted the troops. Kerry: No, I insulted Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman
If everybody at Salon is so concerned about the troops...
If you're all so concerned about the poor victimized troops in Iraq, and if Iraq is the one issue that drives all concerns in this election, I have a great idea. Let's let the combat troops decide this election. Let's just count their votes. Give them the decision of 2006.
I say, in that event, Republicans get only about 75 or 80 per cent. In other words, a G.O.P. landlside.
Yeah, that's smart thinking. Let's disenfranchise EVERYONE who's not in the service. Cause, ya know, we need more voters disenfranchised. We need more people who feel that their government doesn't give a crap about them. Just the thing to bring America out of its little slump.
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Excellent work!
[Read the article: From the Democrats, a surge against the "surge"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good job Mr. Kennedy! Now let's hope we can get the Blue Dogs in the Senate to back a bill that doesn't deny funds to troops in the field, but chokes the President on increasing spending without congressional oversight!
This is the type of savvy, smart, political move i've been waiting for the Dems to make for the last 6 years. Did someone wake us up? Did we pull all the consultants out of the room? Did someone actually surgically infuse a spine into the Democratic party?
GO DEMS!
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I would feel bad...
[Read the article: Facing reality, Bush gives up on some judges]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the president if he hadn't already gotten everything he ever wanted in his two terms handed to him on a silver platter. And now, his highness has decided to magnanimously withdraw their nominations from office, and I'm sure he'll be kind enough to attribute their withdrawal (if only we could hope for another type of withdrawal) as his contribution to "bipartisanship".
Of course, then I could wake up. He'll blame the Democrats for not letting "good, qualified people with good hearts" onto the Federal bench. He'll cause much ado about nothing with regards to the courts (at this point, the President would run naked through an NFL playoff game to turn the media attention away from a surge in troop levels). He'll squeak and squak that we're being obstinate. That we're not really concerned about bipartisanship. Just like the rest of his pandering, hypocritical, whiny, (and now powerless) allies in the minority party.
How does it feel Mr. President? How does it feel to have the toys taken off the table? Now with Ted Kennedy getting ready to toss a bill up that'll choke your new military funding, with investigations and hearings being held, is it possible you're beginning to get a glimpse of what your "legacy" is going to be? Some new china in the White House and the Constitution wadded into toilet paper.
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I mean honestly....
[Read the article: When a benchmark isn't a benchmark]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I think it makes it -- calls it like it is, which is that they have a plan, they have good statements, it's time to perform"
Can anyone in the Bush administration form a cogent sentence???
Why should we hold the Iraqi government accountable? We're molding Iraq in the form of the United States right? And who holds our leaders accountable? No one. No one holds our leaders accountable, which is how this president is getting away with what basically amounts to murder. Changing rationales, poor planning, impotent diplomacy, incompetent execution. If a leader did this in any other civilized nation in the world, they'd be investigated at best, impeached and tried as a criminal at worst. First it was weapons, then it was terrorism, then it was Saddam, now it's freedom and security. And all the while, the poorest execution of a military campaign since Pickett's Charge.
And yet, we don't hold him accountable. We don't hold his enablers accountable. But what do you expect from a country where Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy are not only walking around the streets as free men, but are being PAID TO GIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY TO THE MEDIA!?
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I have three words.
[Read the article: A rough welcome for Rice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About. Damn. Time.