Letters to the Editor
Retired Military Patriot
Published Letters: 2270 Editor's Choice: 11
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Thanks all posters since about noon yesterday
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think I was partly to blame for all this law enforcement, health, fraud, libertarian, hospital care etc., discussion and I am glad I am. I just dropped in and read what has gone on since I last posted and it is highly entertaining and sometimes enlightening. You are far better than the TV shows I was watching. Thanks.
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usstream conspiracy
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn starts talking and I'm off air and tried everything suggested and I'm still off air. Has to be a conspiracy. Will there be anyway to get a transcript or re-run of this? I'm really pissed!
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Mona
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks. I saw that advice and other suggestions. Nothing seemed to work for me. I'm expecting this site to tell me a lot of what Glenn said.
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Holly McLachlan
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yearly Kos is still only providing the first few sentences of Glenn. I asked posters who did see the full session if they could fill us in. So far they have not told us much.
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Tillman whitewash getting worse
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The military whitewash is getting worse. The AP filed this story an hour ago
Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was spared punishment in the latest review of Tillman's shooting. On Tuesday, the Army overruled a Pentagon recommendation that he be held accountable for his "misleading" actions.
In a sometimes contentious November interview under oath and via videoconference, Pentagon investigators sharply questioned McChrystal about the conflicting accounts, according to the testimony obtained by the AP under the Freedom of Information Act.
McChrystal acknowledged he had suspected several days prior to approving the Silver Star citation on April 28, 2004, that Tillman may have died by fratricide.
He said that suspicion led him to send a memo to top generals imploring "our nation's leaders," specifically "POTUS" — the acronym for the president — to avoid cribbing the "devastating enemy fire" explanation from the award citation for their speeches.
"Why did you recommend the Silver Star one day and then the next day send a secret back-channel message warning the country's leaders about using information from the Silver Star in public speeches because they might be embarrassed if they do?" an investigator asked McChrystal.
Despite numerous questions, the general never directly explained the discrepancies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_re_us/tillman_friendly_fire
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The Shiite plan
[Read the article: Bush's non-exit exit strategy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ABC TV News just had an interview with al-Maliki. He said he could see U.S. troops being there in five years. The interviewer said that he doesn’t seem to be very concerned that political progress is slow.
Of course, he doesn’t want political progress. The Shiites want to dominate Iraq and are not interested in a secular, united Iraq. That has been there plan for a long time and they saw the invasion as the best way to achieve it.
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The Fool
[Read the article: Chris Dodd on FISA, habeas corpus and Democratic capitulation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“I want to like Chris Dodd and I want to believe that there are some people holding out for justice in the Democratic Party but reading this interview just makes me sad.
Are you incapable of learning, sir? Do you completely lack judgment? Or is it really something else?”
I’m always more interested when solving a problem of looking at the system more than the players. When we have a system that is so driven by money, influence, polls, MSM, political advisors (manipulators), why are we surprised with the quality of our legislators and the way they think? We have all seen good, high character people get consumed by our system.
If you spent a month with a house member, who is raising money 365 days a year, trying to understand all types of legislative proposals, most of which are ill designed or cravingly crafted, have to be afraid of anything you say in public for fear it will appear almost instantly on the Internet, need to listen to a myriad of constituency problems and advice, take care of family matters, etc., how well would you do? Now consider you are running as a presidential candidate.
I am also saddened by Dodd’s and our Democratic legislators inability to recognize how much our liberties are threatened and see red when I think of how they were such idiots and wimps to not see the inevitable results of invading Iraq
If we want them to prioritize and take on our critical issues, then we could at least give them a means of being elected for reasons other than money or power or courting voters regardless of what is best for the nation. If we want them to listen to us, we should have some understanding of things from their viewpoint and then do what Glenn does, showing the MSM and legislators what their world could be like if they saw how it looks from outside the whirlwind. Maybe we need to collect our best former legislators and ask them to help us design a better system. Or maybe we have plenty of bloggers on Glenn’s site that could do it better than they could. To me, spending too much time blaming the players is not getting us anywhere.
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@The Fool
[Read the article: Chris Dodd on FISA, habeas corpus and Democratic capitulation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glad to hear you are part of the action every day and can do something besides comment here. I totally agree that we should hold politicians accountable. It is lack of taking responsibility that causes a lot of the problems, especially when the people you are around refuse to admit mistakes and are not humble enough to learn from them. The system does not reward humility or, often enough, honesty. I think Glenn and others’ efforts to hold legislators like Dodd or the MSM accountable for what they do and don’t do, can in time have an affect on the system. The progress would be far greater if we could significantly change the system instead of minor, glacially slow improvements. No change would be more significant than public funded national elections.