Letters to the Editor
bucky1
Published Letters: 1714
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William Timberman on the war
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]In my opinion, LBJ was one of our greatest presidents. He suffered from the venal sin of pride, which in his case -- as with that of many great men -- became a mortal sin over time. He thought that he could manage anti-communism, as he managed poverty, better than the right wing. I blame him for that, and for those, like bebop-o, who suffered needlessly for it.
LBJ as a hero? Oh my god, I have lived way too long.
Someday I will tell you a part of what that monster did to my family. He was not "managing anti-communism"; he was "making his bones" by murdering men, women, and children. He turned good American boys into haunted men that would recall the horrors that they committed and scream out in the night decades later. He caused genetic damage to the people of that god forsaken country that reverberates down to this day with his chemical warfare.
Still, bucky, it's a bit disingenuous of you to overlook, if not Mc Carthy, then Macarthur, J. Edgar Hoover, Curtis LeMay, and the right-wing factions, both racist and isolationist before the war, who became xenophobic anticommunist warmongers after it. To say that such a faction didn't exist on JFK and LBJ's right throughout this period, or cause great harm with their meddling, is a bit thick. Just ask Harry Truman, or Dwight Eisenhower, both of whose foreign policy initiatives were sabotaged from time to time by this crew, and who said so publicly, Eisenhower most notably and eloquently.
I do not overlook any of those monsters. May they all rot in hell.
I totally reject the notion that only the GOP was monstrous. That is what I am rejecting. The idea that LBJ was a slave at the beck and call of the historic minority party GOP.
It's not merely an insult to you, bucky, to ask if you really see all of this history as simply an undifferentiated mass of government threat directed at you and yours. If not, then how do you tease apart the strands. Surely you can't think that mere proximity to Washington generates evil in men, or equally in all men, for that matter. Do you?
Do you mean that I might believe that power corrupts? That great power corrupts greatly? That absolute power corrupts absolutely?
I think that sentiment has already been expressed by greater minds than any one would find here.
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Paul Rosenberg whines again, the Lying Scum
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]PG: (1) You called Mann "a yahoo."
Yes, I called him that without even knowing his name. I know him only from your words. If your words are on target, he is a yahoo.
(2) I am not "hiding behind" him. I'm citing him as a source.
You were hiding behind him --- an appeal to authority that your reading of Nam was correct. Bullshit.
At any family get-together in my family such talk as yours among vets would get one bitch slapped at best.
(3) I am not appealing to authority. I am simply explaining why he is a credible source, and a unique one (the only one to write a congressionally-centered book about Vietnam). I don't claim that he absolutely has to be right. I am simply presenting the his argument, and shooting down your simple-minded rants, which never change in response to my arguments. (The underlying problem with short declarative sentences Karen pointed out).
Credible my ass. He is out on the fringe, as are you. I let that crap that LBJ was a servant of the GOP pass a few times, but this opinion of yours is just that; your opinion.
Stop acting as if you can lay the blame for LBJ's monstrous actions on others. What next? Will you blame Truman's nuking Japan on the Republicans?
Paul ---> ...I've never claimed that LBJ is innocent, merely--as is now well-known--that he did not want to fight in Viernam. ...
This is the monstrous claim.
LBJ used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to get the war he wanted. He was taped saying that the Airforce could not "bomb a shit-house" without his approval. It was his war and he loved it.
I see that the Democrats will now try to do just what Glenn is highlighting in his blog about Republicans. You will distance yourself from the known monster --- just wait, Bush will get this same treatment from the other side.
No wonder most libertarians say that voting is useless.
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I suppose it's also possible ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]... nowadays, I encounter such folks at every turn, I'm sorry to say, and in the flesh rather than in a blog comments section. While they're rarely as eloquent as bucky, they're just as unidimensional, and just as tenacious. I tend to think of them as deluded, and perhaps they are, but I suppose it's also possible ...
... you should try supposing that you are listing to crazed propagandists yourself.
The fact that "anti-communism" was a vile disease in this country for a long time (perhaps even until this day) has nothing to do with Paul blaming the Republican Party for the disease.
The foreign policy of this country was bi-partisan and evil --- Democrats can not back out now that the deal is down.
Well, not honestly they can't.
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I can't stand liars ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kitt the liar says:
I can't stand liars. Even if they have convinced themselves that they aren't lying. Just can't stand them. Bucky is a prime example of a liar who may or may not be convinced of his own lies, or not.
You are the biggest liar here. You have never taken on a position, only attacked others to a cheering cabal. However, we both know that you are a toady and a liar.