Letters to the Editor
Terry A.
Published Letters: 174 Editor's Choice: 22
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The explanation option
[Read the article: Three more years of Bush, a plan for Cheney and the I-word, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In WarRoom today, you write, "The president could address that charge head-on. He could go before the American people and explain how discredited claims about Iraq and Niger made it into his State of the Union address. He could explain why he and other administration officials were playing up the story told by a captured al-Qaida member even after the Defense Intelligence Agency warned that the story wasn't credible. He could explain why Colin Powell told the United Nations about claims made by an informant called Curveball long after questions had been raised about the accuracy of his information. And he could explain why his administration relied on and passed along information about the loved then loathed then loved again Ahmed Chalabi."
Let me suggest that this would require a credible explanation other than a pre-existing determination to topple Sadaam Hussein and begin the neocon conquest / conversion of Arabia. Maybe the failure even to try to explain is all the explanation we need.
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Just a jerk.
[Read the article: The rise and fall of T.O.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am a San Franciscan and Warriors fan, and the whole T.O. mess is sadly familiar. As Latrell Sprewell did with the Warriors, Owens' self-inflation, self-destruction and dismissal from the Eagles has left a good team in shambles, and its fans sunk in a debate about race at a time when the only relevant question should be how best to deal with a cancerous jerk. And what a destructive notion it is that a team leader who deals graciously with controversy is a "house Negro" while a gifted self-centered loudmouth is being "true to his race"!
It took the Warriors six years to field a competitive team after Sprewell's departure: it will be truly sad if it takes a similar length of time for the Eagles to recover.