Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1455 Editor's Choice: 146
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"And if, "you know, if people don't like me for it," he said, "that's just the way it is."
[Read the article: "That's just the way it is"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hate to say it, but that's exactly how you win elections. If the Democrats think they can win this fall and in 08 with more murky, cover all bases double talk they're sadly mistaken. Bush's poll numbers and approval ratings may be low, but people know what they've got with him. The Democrats are ambiguous blurs. Most people walk into the voting booth and vote for the person or party whose positions they understand...like them or not. People are mistrustfull of dodginess.
At yesterdays press conference George bush once again linked 9/11 and Iraq in very strong terms. When questioned on it he denied a connection in very strong terms. This happened within seconds of each other. Flip flop? Absolutely, and he wasn't called on. The impression left with the american public was once again, 9/11 = Iraq. Where were the Deomocrats? I heard NOTHING from them after that inexcusable press conference. They should have immediately, in one voice, called the president a LIAR. They need to hammer that home everyday. The president, the vice president are LIARS. they've lied to the american people (and the world) to start the fiasco in Iraq and they're playing Russian Roulett with the national security of this country. That's the message the Democrats must relentlessly push 24 hours a day. They're not doing it. They're letting the Bush administration and the Republicans own every issue.
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boo hoo
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I'm just more familiar with those statements than anyone else because it grieves me so much that we had not told the American people how tough and difficult this task would be."
Sen McCain, I'm certain there are thousands of American families and thousands and thousands of Iraqi families that are feeling a grief far more profound than your sanctamonious out-pouring, all for a reprehensible folly you've fully supported. Your words are empty.
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feeling a draft
[Read the article: Donald Rumsfeld and the not-so-volunteer military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think George bush should commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 by visiting the Trade Center site and announce that the draft is being re-instated. I can see all the Young Republicans wildly cheering and "hoo-rah"ing now.
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just wondering...
[Read the article: "Fool me -- you can't get fooled again"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...who will fight this war? Will the country be willing to turn their sons over to the draft to fight the neocon's next war of choice?
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Bette Davis said it best
[Read the article: Katherine Harris in heaven? It's more likely than the U.S. Senate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For some reason whenever I hear the likes of Katherine Harris or any of the the other whacked out conservatives, christians and Republicans talk about heaven I'm reminded of Bette Davis' famous quote:
"If Joan Crawford is in Heaven I don't want to go there."
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"does he really believe what he's saying?"
[Read the article: Rumsfeld rules]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Certainly not. But he (and bush and cheney) are pulling the wool over a lot of eyes. It doesn't matter if they believe it. It matters that many, many americans are foolish enough to fall for it and enable this bunch of criminals.
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"There was glory in that moment"
[Read the article: A tale of two presidents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In what moment? The carefully staged and contrived moment when he was placed on the rubble with a bullhorn a few days far too late?
A moment of glory would to have proudly and defiantly stood on the steps of the Capital immediately after the attack. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Reagan, Clinton...can you imagine any one of those men hiding after such an event? They would have given the country a true moment of glory. Bush gave us a photo op after the fact.
"This is where President Bush came to direct the initial response to the attacks, and to conduct an emergency national security meeting by secure video."
FDR deliverd his famous speech in front of both houses of congress the day after Pearl Harbor. That was the image presented to the world. Too bad in this modern equivilent the current president hid.
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NO WONDER...
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I can never get a cab at night!
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Why they hate us.
[Read the article: 9/11 hits TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even Japan remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a restrained and dignified manner...and they were nuked.
People all over the world must be shaking their heads in absolute disbelief at our self absorbed, crass egotism. Tragedy happens everywhere. Get over it already.
The lesson that SHOULD be streed on this anniversary is that the whole mess should have been avoided. But no, it will be two weeks of mawkish sel-pity.
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my question again...
[Read the article: Bush on Iraq: It's not about politics; it's about "some politicians"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...where is the Democrats responce? Once again they are silent. Certainly, George Bush's statements are self-serving and ludicrous, but his party is for the most part falling in line. The most coming from the opposition is disinterested silence. The Republicans, once again, own the issue by defualt even if the majority of Americans now oppose the war. The Democrats should be hammering him on this 24 hours a day.
This absolutely boggles my mind.
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Let me tell you about these damn terrorists...
[Read the article: The "central front" in the terror war? Look out, it's right behind you!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...they're not all just driving cabs anymore. You have to look for them everywhere. You know why they don't let homos in army? Because they're cowards and they'll flip on you in a second. You bet they'll convert to Islam in a second to save their own sorry asses. They wear those expensive clothes and spend too much time at the gym, too. Turn in those terrorist homos. And I have some of these "macacas" living down the block that I don't trust. I'd like to know who I can call to keep an eye on them. And if you think you can trust these people who call themselves "Deomocrats" you're wrong. They're apeezers, and they hate America. They want to burn the flag and terrorize fetuses and embolden the enemy...OUR enemy! My brother calls himself a Democrat. I wish I knew who to call to report him. My neighbors kid came home from college last week and started spouting all this junk he read in some of these books they make him read. Junk. Those weirdo proffessor eggheads are filling these kids' heads with trash...terrorist trash. I say throw'em all in jail.
All of them. throw them all in jail!