Letters to the Editor
Jason Wolfe from Newhall
Published Letters: 91 Editor's Choice: 5
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Why Bill Maher gives Ann Coulter a platform
[Read the article: Maher's new rules: Hurrican't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Maher has a reason for giving Ann Coulter a platform. The gist of it is that Ann Coulter is a polar opposite of himself, and keeping her around keeps him sharp.
Mr. MAHER: Well, contrary to popular belief, it's not sex. She's just my friend, and people think it's all based on pillow talk. But I promise you we're just friends, but we're really good friends.
And one thing that doing that show taught me was that you can become friends with people who you absolutely disagree with, and I think people should. One reason I'm able to do that is because, first of all, I'm only 99 percent certain I'm right about anything, and I think everyone should have that
attitude. If you don't, it's arrogant. It's arrogant to think that you absolutely, 100 percent, know you're right about anything. So, you know, who knows? I could get up to the pearly gates and find out Ann Coulter had it all right. I doubt it, however.
From:
http://www.anncoulter.org/specials/maher.htm
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This is a solid political leaflet
[Read the article: Duncan Hunter on the attack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rarely have I seen a leaflet with this much info that can actually be backed up. He also has huge creds from the hardcore right posted on the bottom. I respect this leaflet. Granted I am a leftist and would have nothing to do with Hunter and think his policies are a joke, but this leaflet is hardhitting politics with the facts to back it up.
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Good job Petraeus
[Read the article: The long war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He had the courage to say the honest truth. Kudos to Petaeus. If the US wants to establish a democratic United States client state in Iraq, this is a fifteen year commitment. You have to raise a whole generation trained to like America to accomplish the goal of a democratic Iraq that likes us. Petraeus had the balls to come out and say our present plan of establishing a functioning democracy will take much much longer than the American people anticipated.
Remember that the neocons envisioned putting Chalabi in power as a dictator to replace Sadam. That is why the war planners thought this war would be fast, we would throw in Chalabi, change the military over to a Shia run group, wham bam, oppression system would be in place and we could start siphoning oil. Chalabi's brother was outed as the guy who gave the USA forged documents showing that Sadam had WMDs. When that went public the neocon war planners had to change course and go for a democracy.
Chalabi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi
In response to the WMD controversy, Chalabi told London's Daily Telegraph in February 2004, "We are heroes in error. As far as we're concerned, we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat." [7]
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Morality only applies to sex
[Read the article: Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The clear lesson from this, Clinton's impeachment, and Bush's non-impeachment, is that only sexual morality counts anymore. Ethics, the concept of acting in a way to not harm others, is dead. No one cares. Wolfowitz screwed up everything he touched with unethical hiring practices and the preposterous stove-piping. But man, when he has unmarried sex and gets caught, he has got to go. When Clinton gets a blowjob from a non wife, 1053 subpeonas are justified. Bush plays the fool who followed a fool (Wolfowitz) and we give him a pass for being an idiot. I personally think this goes back to the Reagan revolution, when anything done in the name of business became acceptable, but extra marital sex became a high crime and a misdemeanor.
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Then blame the Iraqi government and bail
[Read the article: Frustrated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here is how to end the war so we win. First, get Iran involved in protecting the Shiites. What? Crazy you say? No. The Saudis fear Iran more than Allah, and pay numerous Sunni Jihadist to sabotage Shia movements all across the middle east. Use our frustration to divest ourselves from the Shia dominated Iraqi government. Next, leave. Let the Shia take their revenge on the Sunni, but make sure Iran's name gets tied to it. Declare this a tragedy, then use it as a justification to sell more tanks to Saudi Arabia. Secretly funnel more money into Saudi Jihadist fronts that want revenge on the hated Shia, as we are already doing.
What does this all accomplish? Destabilizing Muslim unity. It is Bin Laden's dream to use us as a shared enemy to unite the fragmented Muslim world. When we invaded Iraq, we handed that to him on a silver platter. We cannot allow this to continue. A genocide in Iraq that has Farsi letters all over it could pull a strategic victory from the jaws of defeat.
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GWB 43 is a teetotaller
[Read the article: Yeah, but who among us wouldn't love to have a beer with George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotaller
This means that the media narrative that GWB43 is a guy you can have a beer with is a 100% phony. GWB43 became a born again in his early 20's and has sworn off the sauce ever since. He had an overnight conversion and became a teetoaller. So, you CANNOT HAVE A BEER WITH HIM. It would pretty much break his pact with god.
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So if salon can keep Digby's identity secret ...
[Read the article: The hullabaloo over Digby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why the hell couldn't the white house keep Valerie Plame's ID a secret!?
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Pretty weak sauce from Obama camp
[Read the article: Is Barack Obama an economic nationalist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Billy Clinton signed NAFTA, which lead to the unemployment of millions of Mexican farm laborers. This in turn lead to our illegal immigration troubles. Globalization can be done wrong, and Obama could have staked out a position that defied the Clinton legacy of sloppy globalization. I can't think of a candidate that is supporting "play to win" globalization strategies that protect American workers. Outsourcing jobs may improve the bottom line for top corporations, but by lowering the wages of the middle class, a lowering tide will lower all boats. Free trade agreements and farm subsidies guarantee a solid bottom line for American mega-farms, but they gut the small farmer world wide. Obama could have easily taken this issue and said, stop, think, "play to win."