Letters to the Editor
Frank Smith, Bluff City, KS
Published Letters: 131 Editor's Choice: 15
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Bush quoted a fake letter as justification for actions? Why should we be surprised?
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The supposed letter "from al-Zawahiri" "to al-Zarqawi" is a transparent forgery, about as legitimate as the "Nigerian Yellowcake" documents.
Expect bogus letter "from Iran" to follow.
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WashPost takes Danish warnings to heart
[Read the article: Silencing "Opus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One assumes that the Washington Post is not as concerned about political correctness as it might be about the manufactured hysteria generated by the anti-Muslim cartoons published in a Danish paper. Those cartoons were not simply a manifestation of the exercise of free speech, but were deliberately commissioned by the paper's editor in an effort to inflame relatiions with Denmark's 200,000 Muslims. The cartoons were published shortly afterwards in numerous European newspapers which further exacerbated the conflict. Muslims from Britain to Indonesia responded violently in the absence of a timely apology from Denmark resulting in riots, deaths and destruction around the world. Some of these demonstrations were virtually choreographed to take advantage of the opportunity for protest.
The Post is not likely welcoming "a piece of" that.
On the other hand, the Post has gone out of its way to not publish the awful truth about our war on Iraqis and particularly, has avoided appropriate editorial comments on this, our own national disgrace.
I'm offended by the Post's cowardly failure to tell its readers that perhaps a million Iraqis have met an early death, thanks in no small part to its and the NYT's editorial malfeasance. Another three million have been internally displaced and an equal number have fled the country. Virtually the entire professional and middle class south of Kurdistan is gone. Syria has taken in millions fleeing the carnage. Sweden has accepted 50,000. We have grudgingly admitted 700.
I'm not personally put off by Opus, though I find it understandable why others might become so. I am offended by Post Op-Eds boosting the war, however.
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No, it's all <i>CLINTON's<i> fault!
[Read the article: Craig: The press made me plead guilty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ever-agile Mitt Romney immediately moved to blame the whole thing on Hillary, guilt by association. To be absolutely sure there was no misunderstanding, his staff quickly removed the endorsement by Craig from the campaign website. Quite a "head" fake Mitt!
The candidate solemnly intones: “I think it reminds us of Mark Foley and Bill Clinton. I think it reminds us of the fact that people who are elected to public office continue to disappoint, and they somehow think that if they vote the right way on issues of significance or they can speak a good game, that we’ll just forgive and forget. And the truth of the matter is, the most important thing we expect from elected–an elected official is a level of dignity and character that we can point to for our kids and our grandkids, and say, `Hey, someday I hope you grow up and you’re someone like that person.’ And we’ve seen disappointment in the White House, we’ve seen it in the Senate, we’ve seen it in Congress. And frankly, it’s disgusting.”
Voting the right way, of course, is against same sex marriage, for corporate pillaging, in favor of peeing $12 billion a month down a blood-drenched Middle East rathole.
Okay, so now in the last few weeks we've had David "Poopy Pants" Vitter, Giuliani's Southern campaign chair, praying with his wife, the would-be "Lorena Bobbitt" for forgiveness on national T.V.
FL state rep. Bob Allen, McCain's state chair, gets caught eating sausage in the park. "I wish this situation to no one or any family," Allen said. "My wife, Beth and I, and my daughter have grown closer in the last 48 hours than we thought imaginable."
Romney's Idaho chair and Senate liaison is hypotized when he accidentally and frequently furtively looks through the crack in a restroom stall and unfortunately adopts the "wide-stance, tapping foot, hand under the partitition" pose in the adjacent cubicle. His wife joins him in a touching T.V. affirmation that he is indeed Not gay!
So the question is, "When will Fred's anonymous-so-far staffer get busted at either end of a glory hole?"
Anyone see a pattern here?
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These questions are the key
[Read the article: What kind of conservative are you?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This doesn't appear to be a fishing expedition. One applicant, for instance, before Monica spoke to Congress, said that he was asked if he had ever commited adultery. Monica was asked about that. She contended that was an isolated instance and not reflective of what she normally would have asked.
I believe that the IG already knows what questions were asked. What he's trying to find out (because these are discrimination/Hatch Act situations) is exactly which interviewers were asking what questions and how often those questions were asked.
This situation is much more serious than War Room appears to think it is.