Letters to the Editor
Jebbie
Published Letters: 1207
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-- Aycharaych
[Read the article: Chris Matthews is right ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But that is bullying, as I have been informed here when I attempted to get my questions answered.
I realize that I'm not a reporter and that the posters here are not candidates, but it is impossible to have a debate based on facts and reason if those you are debating with refuse to answer your questions.
Any reporter who did as you suggest in your post would immediately be ostracized by both their fellow "reporters" and by the candidates and their campaigns in the current media climate."
It's not bullying when the reporter, after failing to receive an answer to the actual question he asked, is courteous and reports the dodge as what it was, a dodge. What's lacking now is the reporting of the dodge.
Any reporter who is more worried about being ostracized than reporting the truth deserves to be ostracized.
In your case, people were refusing to give any answer at all or when they did answer with what apparently you weren't looking for in an answer, (they) were ignored in return or, even worse, repeatedly told that they had not attempted to answer. In anycase, candidates have an obligation to answer legitimate questions. Folks on message boards don't and it does no good to whine about not getting an answer back to what may appear as a loaded question. No?
I predict that you will not answer that question.
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Glenn you are wrong
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Needless to say, as Cernig documents, Bush followers, who believe it's the duty of every American to click one's heels and blindly accept every statement made by our Government and military..."
Prior to clicking one's heels, the manual instructs one to turn toward Washington, D.C., assume the position of attention, belly in, chin out, arms at sides and then, and only then, should one click one's heels.
I presume you will correct this in the future.
On a less homorous note, I believe I mentioned the other day, when this incident first happened, that it was possibly being hyped in order to give Bush a talking point for his (now current) trip to the Middle-East. I mean, what else can he use for cocktail conversation (or to release to the media for regurgitation verbatim)?
He can't honestly point to our "successes" in Iraq because those won't be rubes he's talking to. He can't honestly sit down with Hamas or Hezbolah and thank them for supporting his Road Map policies with regard to Israel. He really can't go to the Knesset and kvetch about how badly they've been treating him. Pervez Musharraf would as soon spit in his face as invite him in for some roast lamb.
So, he's left with Cheney's Law.
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Those square "boxes" were
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Square Grouper.
Those who live in Florida will know what I'm talking about.
Aside to Jim White...thanks for the chuckle.
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-- ApacheTrout
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shortly after the USS Cole incident, my wife, mother and I were operating a 56 foot pleasure boat in the channel between St. John and St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgins. Anchored off Red Hook on St. Thomas (Paul Dirks, you suck), was the USS Underwood, FFG36. As we approached this ship so my mother could get a better look, our radio announced that we should bear away to avoid a problem. I immediately turned to port and then took a closer look at the ship with binoculars and saw three of the ship's crew aiming weapons at us. One had what looked to be an M-14 and the other had mounted M-60 machine guns. My mom didn't even look like a terrorist (or even a Republican, for that matter).
It should also be noted that this is not the USS Port Royal's first trip through the straight. She was a member of the USS Peleliu strike group which operated in the Persian Gulf in 2003, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During that deployment, she assisted in the detention of a number of dhows transporting hashish.
I doubt if the ships in this incident we ever really in danger from those boats. If they were, the Captains need to be beached.
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-- GoldsteinDB
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Or are we supposed to believe that it pains Glenn to have to suggest that misstatements were made because the misstatements themselves lead to reduced opinions of our military at home and abroad?"
I believe you can take what Glenn writes as authentic concern relative to the harm done to the credibility of our military, and through it, our country, when incidents like this occur.
Do you believe that opinions of our military are enhanced when fuckups like this occur?
Should honest people just suck it up and ignore these things?
Should honest people just say "boys will be boys" and trot along life's path unconcerned with what has happened?
Just how should things like this be handled?
Now, before you start trying to shovel sunshine up our asses, you should know that there are those of us here who have military experience and some of us actually know a thing or two about incidents such as were described as occuring with the USS Port Royal.
Proceed.