Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 817 Editor's Choice: 48
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what David Smith said.....
[Read the article: Republicans play politics with war funding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yeah! What he said.
Except, of course, the reason this dance looks the way it does has everything to do with the 2008 elections. Pelosi and the Dems are not stupid. They see an opportunity to lock down House and Senate with overwhelming majorities. And, maybe even elect a Democrat to the Presidency.
So, they're playing the cards they have. Probably fairly well too.
Still, part of that calculation involved taking impeachment of the Vice-President and the President "off the table." I think that was wrong, and I'll go to my grave thinking it was wrong and immoral. As wrong and immoral as Dan Inouye shutting down the Senate investigation of Iran-Contra because "the country couldn't take another impeachment." Inouye's words, or to that effect, anyway, at the time.
I'm with David Smith. The Dems should take the gloves off, get out the heavy artillery, and take Cheney and Bush DOWN. NOW. It's bad for the country that these men are not disgraced and punished for all to see, for trampling all over the Constitution.
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gonzales incompetent? Nope.
[Read the article: Poor, poor Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a couple posters wrote, in part:
either/or...
Gonzales is either unquestionably the most politically corrupt Attorney General in the history of his position, or the most incompetent
Both, I'd say... his corruption makes competence completely outside the realm of possibility. Having people like him in charge of the US justice system is pretty much
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No, no, no. Even a cursory reading of what's going on here argues strongly for the notion that, far from being incompetent, Gonzales is a genius. For his boss.
I believe something was here in Salon recently making essentially that point. Gonzales is lying beautifully for the administration. He's doing EXACTLY what he was brought in to do: cover up Bush Administration crimes, and commit more crimes, all while sounding like a deferential dunce.
It's a brilliant performance. I'm sure Gonzo will make millions in private practice. I can't say I've ever seen a lawyer deliver one bald-faced lie after another with more aplomb.
He's not incompetent folks. He's brilliant. Doing exactly what he was hired to do.
And if you think you've heard a lot of "I don't recall" just wait until Goodling takes the stand.
The GOP and Bush and Cheney and Rove are going to stonewall this one, precisely because this is a strand that could start unraveling in a major way at any moment. So, there will be no slip-ups beyond the initial slip-up of screwing up the firings so badly.
The reason these GOP house members are acting so stupid is less likely because they're actually stupid, and more likely that they've been put on notice that there is to be no screwing around: the stakes are too high. And these GOP congressmen know it. If this strand really unravels, the GOP could be done as a political party, forever.
I'm not sure anyone realizes just how seriously dangerous this investigation is. It could bring down the Administration. Why do you think the GOP is fighting so hard to end it? If it wasn't much, they'd let it go, figuring it to be a welcome distraction. They protest too much. Act too stupid. Something's in the wind, folks.
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saddam was there for a reason
[Read the article: America's long Iraq nightmare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...just as Tito ruled in Yugoslavia for 40 years. When you have a created country like Iraq, filled with people who would kill each other if not contained, only a stalinist strongman like Saddam could keep the lid on. And he did, for over 30 years. He did it by terrible means. But terrible means were required.
Iraq never fought a full civil war to establish just who was going to rule. Now they get to fight one. It's horrible, but why should we be in the middle of it? And, yes, we lit the fuse, and made things far worse than they might otherwise have been (Saddam dying, and some kind of semi-orderly transfer of power to a better government might have occured..although I think a Shi'ite/Islamic government was inevitable there, once you removed the stalinists), and Bush and Cheney deserve to boil in Hell for what they've done, no question about that.
But what in hell did we expect? I believe Cheney didn't give a shit. He knew what might happen, but he didn't care. All he cared about was getting the second four years, and the chance to undo every good thing the American Experiment achieved in the last century. He got his four years. If Iraq had to bathe in blood for him to get it, that wasn't his problem.
I wish there were a Hell, just so I could be sure Cheney would spend eternity in it. He is a truly evil man.
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the kennedy presidency...
[Read the article: The wisdom of Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]has to be tarred and feathered these days, because if we compare the truth of the Kennedy presidency to the one inflicted on us now (not to mention the clambake otherwise known as the Reagan Presidency), Bush and Cheney look like traitors. It's been downhill for the Presidency since 1963, it's arguable that NO-ONE since Kennedy has had his intelligence, his pragmatism, his genuine empathy, and his awareness of reality. His qualities of leadership. Clinton might have come close, but he could not control his appetites in a time when the press was not the gentlemanly club it was in Kennedy's time.