By ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press Writer

June 01,2007 | FORT WORTH, Texas -- "Days after Cindy Sheehan announced she was stepping down as the face of the anti-war movement, a pro-troop organization said Friday it plans to buy her protest site outside President Bush's ranch."

-------------------------------------------

So in the AP's view, Americans are either "anti-war" or "pro-troop." That explains much.

Scooter28% writes, "Bush is the real obsession, not terrorism. Bombings you can live with, but not Bush." Another wingnut earlier suggested Glenn to go to "al-Qaeda HQ."

Um, al-Qaida bin-Forgotten in Pakistan. The occupation of Iraq and the effort to establish permanent U.S. bases atop the oil have nothing to do with al-Qaida or 9/11. "Al-Qaida of Iraq" has nothing to do with the real al-Qaida or 9/11. The criminals actually responsible for 9/11 remain free, due to the incompetence of Bush-Cheney. This is one reason why Bush Jr. is the worst president ever. If a Dem president had failed to catch the terrorists responsible for 9/11 after six years, the wingnuts would be screaming for impeachment.

I, too, wasn't very impressed with Mr. Galen's analysis. His failure to even mention the importance during the '95 showdown of Newt's personal petty snit over being assigned the lesser exit on Air Force One was a dead giveaway; and the corporate media continues to frame every key issue in the Gop's Luntzian terms -- including "defunding the troops." (Just today I saw an AP story that indicated "anti-war" is the opposite of "pro-troops".)

Nevertheless, it is refreshing to hear from a Gop who isn't insulting Dems as terrorist appeasers and traitors; who isn't acting as a shill for corporate power; who doesn't approach policy questions as matters of faith; and who doesn't end every argument by shouting that ISLAM IS EVIL (or else that "Bill Clinton had SEX!! WITH A WOMAN!!!"). The high quality of the letters in this thread reflect the worthiness of the opponent.

Well of course it's only a matter of time before Faux News "accidentally" labels Junior as a Democrat. By the way, is it just me, or is anyone else, while watching alleged "highlights" of the Gopers all playing Quien es mas macho? reminded of the 'Seinfeld' in which George, fighting a losing battle against a burn victim for the affections of a certain female, tells her in a last ditch attempt to win her over, "I'll burn myself; I'll burn my parents!"?

I can hear Romney, Giuliani, et al.: "I'll torture bin-Laden; I'll torture my parents!"

Shorter Elephant: Poor little Scooter shouldn't be punished for murdering his parents, because he's now an orphan. Boo hoo hoo, sniffle sob. Do go tell someone who cares.

Elephant flails helplessly: "Y'all got me. I am prepared to eat all of my words, and admit my monstrous hypocrisy. Just as soon as Bill Clinton serves the same amount of prison time as Scooter Libby."

Umm, President Clinton was impeached for fudging the truth about a consensual affair with an adult woman, at the end of a taxpayer-funded $75 million Gop witchhunt that was supposed to be about a land deal in Arkansas in the 1970's, however, the Clintons were never charged -- much less convicted -- of any crime. Period.

Poor little Scooter, on the other hand, lied -- repeatedly and at length, for the purpose of obstructing an investigation by a Gop-appointed prosecutor into the public outing of a CIA agent as part of a political campaign to smear anyone who dared question the monstrous lies told by the Gop to sell its Iraq War, which has resulted in a half-million deaths.

Convicted, little Scooter was. By a jury. Of three felonies. And sentenced by a Gop judge.

Get stuffed, Elephant.

Poor Elephant. It must be tough nowadays, with the disaster in Iraq and 28% "approval."

In re poor little Scooter's three felony convictions, you are misplacing the burden of proof in the court of Salon's letters pages. You are the one sobbing about injustice; so go ahead and make your case, if you can. Personally, at this point I couldn't care less HOW Libby lied. A jury convicted him of three felonies; and in this type of case, that's enough for me.

The Gop faithful want to believe that the moment Armitage "accidentally" blabbed about Ms. Plame to Novak, no one else could commit a crime in re her outing. But that is not the way the law works. Apparently there was a conspiracy in Cheney's office to "out" her as part of their sleazy campaign to slime anyone who dared question the lies told by the Gop to sell their failed occupation of Iraq; but because of Libby's lies, we'll never know.

President Clinton, on the other hand, was acquitted by the Gop-controlled U.S. Senate. After which, Gop Inquisitor-in-Chief Ken Starr made some bluster about filing criminal charges in order to save face and have something to show for his $75 million witchhunt; but in the end he elected not to. So go ask him about it, Elephant. And then get stuffed.

Poor Elephant. All your questions have long since been answered, and all of your issues addressed; yet you pretend not to notice. You must be under some sort of obligation to Libby or the Gop to spread elephant dung (= Gop b.s.) here at Salon; but it's so obvious from your bloodless reading of the various talking points that your heart is just not in it.

It must be hard to keep the faith, given the disaster in Iraq, the failure to even TRY to catch bin-Forgotten, and the 28% "approval." This no doubt explains your increasingly rare appearances at Salon. Which is too bad, because frankly I used to enjoy your e.d.

Saint Reaganism is dying a dismal death in the sands of Iraq. Vaya con Dios, Elephant.