Letters to the Editor
bloomsbury
Published Letters: 405 Editor's Choice: 5
-
Bush the brain
[Read the article: Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush boasted about being a C student, he's proud of it! I laughed myself sick when I saw on his website that he's got a degree in history. It just shows you what money can buy and if you believe that Bush, the biggest schmuck ever to walk the face of the earth, got higher marks than John Kerry, I feel sorry for you. He was just over here in Australia and he gave a speech where he was barely coherent. He has trouble stringing a sentence together,mangles words and has verbal blackouts where he just stands there looking, yes, stupid. Now whether that's brain damage from his drinking and fornicating days, I don't know but he is in fact a damn moron and doesn't seem to care who knows it. Most Americans don't even bother to vote and that would seem to indicate deep and meaningful stupidity to me. Ronald Reagan was elected by 31% of the electorate and they called him The Great Communicator: maybe so but on the other hand he was obviously only communicating with a third of the electorate. Two Thirds of Americans didn't vote for him and he still becomes the most powerful monkey in the zoo! The CIA knows where Osama bin Laden is, they know where all the bodies are buried but I don't expect they'll tell anyone where that particular body is. He had to go: he knew too much, as they say in gangster movies. Now he's just some kind of handpuppet they pull out every September 11 wearing a fake beard, so they can scare the punters.
-
stop it!
[Read the article: The unsettling deaths of Omar Mora and Yance Gray]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Keller, stop spouting hypocritical crap and get real. This misty eyed rubbish about heroic bands of brothers is why young people are still being sent to die in colonial wars in the 21st century. As for Petraeus: he should hang his head in shame for attempting to perpetuate and support a futile, unwinnable war that was entered into in a moral vacumn and has only gone downhill from there. I just read an article about how the salaries of CEOs of defence companies have doubled since 9/11 and the unbelievable amounts of money everyone involved in the Iraq war is making. Everyone that is except the people being sent there to die so that a lot of rich people can become even more obscenely wealthy. These people are determined to have war without end because it makes them rich. The soldiers are the 'investment' they make in running the defence industry that has become America's reason for existing. David Betrayus is not the disease he's a symptom of the disease. Would the army kill these soldiers for speaking out against the war? Of course they bloody would. In the eyes of the fanatics running this war these decent and honourable men were traitors. These same people run off at the mouth about Betrayus as if he's going to save the world. The question is who's going to save the world from people like Betrayus and the Kagans and Bush and deadeye Dickie? If the Republicans ever want to occupy the white house again they better start thinking about the size of the loss they face in 2008. Things are going to get a lot worse in Iraq and staying there for ten years in insanity - unless you happen to be the CEO of a defence corporation. Then it makes perfect sense.
-
welcome to hell
[Read the article: The real reason Bush is withdrawing troops from Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who thought Iraq was as bad as it could get might have to adjust their perspective. The French defence minister just made a statement that we all have to prepare ourselves for war with IRAN. I knew that sly sexist, Sarkozy, was trouble the minute I saw his misfit's face. The international gang behind the plan to re-design the Middle East won't rest until they've launched a war between all Moslem states and the west. 9/11 was supposed to give them this but failed to do it because few European countries would play, especially France. You'd think that a country that fought the Vietnamese for 20 years and lost (France had a war with them before America did because Vietnam was a French colony before the Second World War) would be more cautious. The French defence minister only gives the west two choices: allow Iran to have the bomb or have a war with them.Do I hear echoes of Weapons of Mass Delusion? I know I hear the patter of hundreds of thousands of protestors' feet hitting French streets. Why the hell couldn't they have elected Madam Royale? They must have a death wish.
-
just one please can I?
[Read the article: What happens to private contractors who kill Iraqis? Maybe nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My favourite story about these geeks is that one of the American private contractors hadn't managed to kill any Iraqis during his time there and he told a friend he wanted to kill an Iraqi before he went home. He twice tried to kill Iraqi civilians driving by in cars. He left with no 'kills' to his credit but even though many other contractors knew he had tried to kill unarmed civilians nothing was done and he was never charged with anything. It all raises interesting questions about the Democrats' attempts to bring US troops home. If there are 180,000 private contractors in Iraq, thousands more than regular troops, who decides when and under what circumstances THEY will leave? Who do they actually work for and how could Paul Bremmer be allowed to say that they couldn't be prosecuted? They effectively have diplomatic immunity. Who recruits them? Do they have links to US intelligence? Someone should be asking these questions. The fact that there are 180,000 of these private soldiers explains why the situation in Iraq is so catastrophic and chaotic. When you know you're not accountable and not answerable to any law no matter what you do, anarcy soon follows. This is a failure of moral vision, the thing that has crippled the Bush administration at every turn.