Letters to the Editor
kunndunn
Published Letters: 21 Editor's Choice: 1
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WAKE UP HUMANS!
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As founder of "Kingdom of Animals Institute for Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Training of Aggressive Canines...please stop this madness about "incurable" specific breeds. I have worked with hundreds of dogs of all breeds that were ready to be euthanized because they were aggressive(not because of their breed)but because of their abuse by humans. Except for two dogs that were totally "runt" by severe abuse, the other 98% were systemically rehabilated to become lovable pets that were adopted by caring people. If we outlaw one breed, then just another will crop-up and the core of the problem will never be solved. We must severely punish and ostracize any human who cruely abuses and tortues a animal. Until we take a firm stand against this....the problem will continue into the next generation of youth. My grandmother always told me (which I have come to confirm) that show me how a person treats an animal and I will tell you how they will treat others.
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BEHOLD! KISSINGER'S NAZI-BOOTS ARE ALL OVER THIS ONE!
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am mortified that no serious journalist is tracking the way that Henry Kissinger is still running the strategy show in consultations with Cheney over Iraq. Kissinger still blindly believes that if we had just allowed 50,000 more U.S. soldiers to die in that god-forsaken war, that we would have won it.
When will we ever learn? Vietnam and Iraq is a collossal tradegy from the start-go. When will we ever stop trying to police the world by imposing our imperialistic system upon it?
Let us lead my example, not through the pre-emptive barrell of a gun. I gurantee you that if any reporter trailed Kissinger you would find that he is the most often "secret" visit to Cheney's secluded cubby-hole. Kissinger wants to re-write the lessons of Viet Nam because if not, one day there will be a national reconcilitation and truth that will "send Kissinger to the Hague for all his crimes against humanity" in Viet Nam, Cambodia and Chile. Military Might would have never achieved victory in Viet Nam, nor will it ever make Iraq our guaranteed Oil depot.
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THE COURAGE OF THE ""FALLEN MAN"
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After reading the Esquire article in its entirety, please let me declare that those who ''fell''to their deaths from the Towers on 9-ll were very courageous humans. If you are on the edge of a high cliff and a raging fire is right behind you, you have to have the ''courage against all odds" to ''jump to save your life." Somehow the reasoning that those jumping were suicidal and hell-bound is horribly wrong in the strongest sense. I believe the reaction of the public (USA) to this photo had nothing to do with ''privacy,'' rather than a national fear of confronting oneself, "Would I have the courage to do what the ''fallen''did? When the slaves of the Old South were cruelly brutalized, sexually abused, and violently oppressed, many (if history would record it) chose
to just walk-off to freedom even though it meant their deaths.
Many concentration surviors chose the same "freedom" to be shot in the back rather than submitt to a slow, agonizing death by Nazi psychotics. My great-great grandmother on the forced Cherokee march (The Blood of Tears) walked barefooted in the snow every step of the way. However, the tribe also honored those young braves who chose to just walk off and be shot rather than lose their freedom to the cruelty of oppression by the white man. These heroic fallen should be respected with reverence that they chose the freedom of their own destines rather than submit to a raging certain death.
So rather than look down on them, let us confront our own fears by ''looking'' to see ''if we would have the courage to do what they chose to do." In Goodwill, kunndunn@Yahoo.com
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PETRAEUS IS ANOTHER WESTMORLAND
[Read the article: Do Petraeus' numbers hold up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having watched Petraeus all day, I can only remember how General Westmorland was cast in the same role during the Viet Nam fiasco. Westmorland measured ''success'' by numbers and statistics designed to make Johnson, Nixon, and the macavaleian
Kissinger ''look good."
Four star generals don't make ''five stars'' by making the duty and honor to their Commander-In-Chief look stupid. Even to become appointed to the task, Petreaues had to be the right politican to clean Bush's shoes until they looked "shinned."
What Westmorland failed to grasp, as also is the case of General Petraeus is crunching numbers to look good causes one to ''fail to see the forest for the trees." We could never have won in Viet Nam....it was a civil war. We shall never win in Iraq militarily..it is a civil war. Bring our troops home as reasonably as fast as we can. Kissinger persuaded Nixon to let some 10,000 more of our young people die while we slowly disengaged where it would not look like ''defeat.'' What a tradegy that is only repeating itself. Kissinger, the silent shadow behind our shadow government with Cheney, still refuses to see that the "Kissinger Doctrine" is a doctrine of a man drunk on the madness of power. General Petreaus is only caught in the middle of a political-oil strategm policy that is doomed to failure.
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JUSTICE NOT SERVED IS JUSTICE DENIED
[Read the article: Gonzales' lawyer, Gonzales' worry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a patriotic American that loves this country, I am deeply saddened that the most corrupt and underminding of the consitution administration will get away scott-free from any accountability. The rich folks get "justice not served" and the little people without wealth for corrupt lawyers, get
"Justice Denied." What a travesty of justice our dearly beloved country has become.