Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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Jkalos
[Read the article: The Iraq debate: Caving in before it begins?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're exactly right. the Democrats are doing to their base the same thing the Republicans do to theirs: pay them lip service. The Republicans will never really launch an attack on abortion rights nor will they really push for a constitutional ammendment banning same sex maariage. Its all hot air blown at the the people they can always count on to vote for them. The fools never realize their pet issues are dead in the water. The Democrats are doing the same thing, however their game is much more dangerous. Its not just their base that handed them control of Congress. The American people want this disastrous war brought to an end. Bush and the Republicans are locked into "stay the course." The Democrats promised action and swept into power. They had no intention of rocking the boat. They take money from the same people who are profiting from this fiasco. As long as the corporate pigs are feeding at the trough that is Iraq, rest assured, NO politician in Washington will do a damn thing to change the situation. Its all about oil and money, and has been since the beginning.
Once the ultimate benchmark has been reach our troops will be reduced to a police force protecting the oil fields. That benchmark, of course, is gift wrapping and handing those oil fields to the big oil companies.
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Is he running for Miss Teen USA?
[Read the article: Not ready for prime time?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find it odd that whenever some plot or terror cell is foiled or discovered its through the efforts of law enforcement and intelligence agencies NOT the military. Yet we keep hearing about the "globalal war on terror" in conventional military and combat terms. Thompson is just parroting (I hate to use that term because my two macaws are clearly more intelligent than the people robotically repeating this nonsence) George Bush. I really don't think at this point the american people are in the mood for 4 more years of this failed policy fronted by a different clueless President.
Then again, people were horrified when John Kerry suggested terror was best combated by law enforcement, so maybe Knox Pooley is just what the public wants.
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yawn
[Read the article: Thompson proposes a new gay marriage amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that was all very 2004 wasn't it? I thought we were already bored with gay marriage.
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What happens if everything were to work out?
[Read the article: Awaiting Petraeus: The reality check]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The serge ends up working, they stand up and we stand down, benchmarks are met with amazing success. How soon would it be before we realized we created a new Iraq as belligerent as the old? Does anyone honestly believe that Iraq, what ever, form it takes, will NOT be hostile towards us? The only way to avoid that outcome is to set up a strongman and rule it with an iron fist. It work in Iran for 25 years, but we're paying for it now.
There is no good outcome anyway you look at it.
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Regardless of surges or successes the question for Petraeus is--what the hell is going to happen when we leave, whenever we leave.
[Read the article: Unexpected success in Anbar? It was expected]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We may end up with another bad Broadway musical about this fiasco: Miss Baghdad.
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hen Nirvana brought back some life to a dead dead dead genre.
[Read the article: Toronto Film Festival]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]wow, that's like so profound
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She's not talented, not interesting or not even all that beautifull
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's dull and unremarkable in every way imaginable. I don't understand her initial success, I don't understand the continuing interest. Apparently, she insisted on wearing the too small, too tight, ill-fitting bikini instead of the costume MTV had chosen. Turning herself into a side-show freak has been a career move. Her brief shelf-life, her unearned 15 minutes has expired and she'll stop at nothing to slather herself in the attention she craves.
She's filthy rich and could provide a wonder, charmed life for herself and her children. That she has chosen to turn herself into a public pig is her own choice. I don't feel sorry for her.
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I thought I was watching the dancing hippos in Fantasia
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She was fat. Oh maybe not "fat" if she had worn something flattering. But stuffed into that glittery thing like a pork sausage in a bikini and wriggling around on national tv...she was FAT. She chose the outfit, she agreed to dance around in it. She's a mess largely of her own making.
I feel sorry and bad for Liza Minnelli when I see her now. She was never my taste in entertainment, but she did have talent for what she did. I can feel pity for her because it must be difficult to be a shaddow of your former self (even if much of the downfall is self inflicted). But Britney Spears made a fortune on no talent and no ability whats so ever. She should thank her lucky stars and retire to a cushy life of luxury. I don't care to see her shaved head or snatch, her drunken escapades or poor parenting demonstration...all done for the most self absorbed quest for attention.
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"I wouldn't want to be the party that says we're going to have 130,000 troops from July on."
[Read the article: A surrender before the fight begins?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well what fucking party is he?
The only explaination is tthat the Democrats are being squeezed HARD by the corporations making a fortune off of this fiasco.
I agree with the above post. No support from me (finacially or in the voting booth) for the Democrats. Third party all the way for me.
In a way, the Democrats are worse than the Republicans. At least with the Republicans you know what you're getting.
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"Return on Success"
[Read the article: Stand up, stand down, then do it all again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Start counting. It will be the new "stay the course", "road map", "war on terror" ...
Condi will be on Good Morning America next week and will say "Return on Success" at least two dozen times.
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Why should guys like Boehner, and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld be able to make millions off of the war
[Read the article: A very low "return on success"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We may all be dead and gone by the time the truth finally comes out, but I honestly believe when all is said and done the real story of the Iraq war will be the money Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. put in their own pockets. The spread of democracy, the fight them there so we don't fight them here, WMDs, Bush's religious crusade...none of that rings true to me. But the fortune being made off of this disaster is very real to me. Its been about money and oil from the start, and Bush and Co. would care unless alot of theat cash was finding its way into their hands.