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Published Letters: 6

  • I'm noticing a double-standard here

    [Read the article: What Beltway media stars mean by "centrism" and "extremism"]
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    Cheney is the kind of guy who represents to me the hard case. He's not going to go negotiate with anybody. Is it fair to say that Cheney would take the position, you don't deal with Ahmadinejad, for whatever reason, you don't deal with Castro, you don't deal with Kim Jong il or any of these guys. You stiff them. Is that the Cheney view?

    Cheney certainly doesn't have a problem meeting with other unsavory characters:

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/gd/fahd/images/v080505db-0306-398h.jpg

    http://www.presidency.gov.eg/assets/images/13-Mar2002_1.jpg

    http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/39/week_3_0507/051507-usjordan-200.jpg

  • See also

    [Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
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    Spanish royal sex cartoon banned:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6909047.stm

    Cartoonist faces Greek jail for Jesus cartoon:

    http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,1443908,00.html

  • Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson: Anti-Semites

    [Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
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    Glenn,

    I suggest you read what I had to say about the issue in my reply to Roger Cohen:

    www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/15/12110/9204/94/437234

  • Google "CISPES" for example of spying abuses under Reagan

    [Read the article: Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses]
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    Hey Glenn,

    I suggest you do some reading into the FBI's surveillance operations against the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador in the 1980s:

    www.southendpress.org/2004/items/Breakins

    www.publiceye.org/huntred/Hunt_For_Red_Menace-12.html

    It's very similar to what could possibly be going on today.

  • Unsurpringly, that's not a new argument

    [Read the article: Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation]
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    I've seen Victor Davis Hanson argue that the "Clintonite" policy of firing cruise missiles at countries and the civilian deaths it caused somehow justifiesd the Bushist strategy of long, drawn-out occupations.

  • "U.S. Army rigged interrogations, author says"

    [Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
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    Glenn, this story from 2005 may be of some interest to you:

    http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/03/news/gitmo.php