Letters to the Editor
bloomsbury
Published Letters: 406 Editor's Choice: 5
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the truth is what the right says it is
[Read the article: Conservatives see bias in McClellan coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The right can call the truth bias or liberal slant or they can call it Fred or Tiffany or Billy Bob: that doesn't make it less true. McClellan is only saying in public in the mainstream media what everyone with a brain has known for years. The Iraq war is a disgraceful and cynical farce, built on propaganda broadcast by a slavish 'on message' media and carried out to get control of Iraq's oil and to get rid of one of Israel's most committed enemies. Saddam is gone but the godawful mess Bush and Cheney have made in the Middle East will take decades to mend, politically, financially and diplomatically. McClellan is not telling the truth when he writes that for a week after Katrina the Bush administration was in denial: they weren't in denial, they just didn't give a damn. The Republicans didn't give a damn in 1927 either and they won't give a damn next time it happens. The Bush administration knew that the levees were nearly two feet too low for the level of hurricane that might hit New Orleans. They did nothing. After the worst had happened they also did nothing. Far from revealing all,it seems from the comments so far that McClelland has let Bush and Cheney and the neo cons off lightly. The true ghastliness of what Bush and friends have done would give the gently dozing viewer of Fox and CNN the vapours. I think it's called self-censorship. When I watch the crazy carry on in Burma where the generals have now actually impounded the cars of Burmese who were attempting to take food and medicine to remote areas to help those in need, I remember the trucks from Wal Mart full of water and food turned back and not allowed anywhere near New Orleans. Isn't it marvellous how Fascists all think alike?
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unfinished business
[Read the article: A new low in Clinton bashing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason any mention of Bobby Kennedy's assassination creates such passionate outbursts is that the killers were never charged or prosecuted. Bobby Kennedy was shot in the back of the head from less than three inches away. He was, in effect, executed and certainly not by Sirhan Sirhan who was in front of him and never closer than three feet. Getting away with killing the Kennedys and Martin Luther King is what created the hubris that led to the 21st century crimes of the same organizations and political factions behind these assassinations. Hillary Clinton was not actually referring to the assassination at all but to the time frame in which it occurred but the mere mention of it is still so distressing because it was never resolved. The truth is still suppressed to this day because the truth reveals a far right pattern of abuse of power which has continued, in defiance of the law, the voters and the constitution to the present time. All those people howling like banshees over Hillary Clinton's 'crime' in even mentioning Bobby Kennedy's killing should remember what the real enemy is: a mindset that says 'I'm right and you're wrong and if you get in my way I'll have you killed.' That hasn't changed. The idea that human lives are expendable in pursuit of a political agenda is why 9/11 happened. I don't think Hillary Clinton was involved in that either.
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Col Sanders
[Read the article: Viva Hillary Clinton!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You see there's this thing called democracy: it means that people can say things you don't agree with and vote for people you don't want them to vote for and you can't (as another delusional person seems to think they have the power to do) have them thrown out of their jobs -poor Joan Walsh- or taken out behind a warehouse and shot. Not unless you're in the CIA,that is. Joan Walsh and any other person can say and think and write what they want. It seems that some other people think being a white man is a crime against humanity or cause to hide your identity in case you're outed. I really would think that the Democrats would say re Clinton, 'Here's a woman with the intelligence and the experience and the voter base that makes us a shoo in when the general election rolls around.' But no. That's too reasonable. Too logical. Instead they decide to go for the outside chance:so much more exciting! The fact that the Democratic party, like all political parties, is full of sexists -of both sexes- doesn't help. Like that woman who asked McCain, 'How do we stop the bitch?' I've seen it all before. In politics the ceiling is not a glass ceiling but a stainless steel one, with a concrete layer behind that, just in case some of the bitches actually get their hands on real power. God, they might even change things! People like Sanders are posted behind the concrete with an M-16 to pick those uppity cows off before they can do any harm to decent God fearing men and the marvellous, just society they've created. Men who know that a woman's place is prone and in the wrong, not in the White House.