Letters to the Editor
Ron Smith
Published Letters: 211 Editor's Choice: 11
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Cheer Today's Victory for Justice
[Read the article: The Democrats' responsibility in the wake of Gonzales' resignation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First the cheers, then the planning.
So I want to say "Thank You" to Glenn, to Salon, and to the Democrats for getting this criminal to resign. That our President praises this guy tells us all we need to know. Can you recall that threesome of Presidential Freedom Medal winners, Tenet, Franks and Bremer?
Also, the "Fighting Eight" U.S. Attorneys have earned our respect for standing up to the President, the AG, and their friends operating the Republican Smear Machine. These are Men and Women of Honor. We will not forget them.
Now Glenn has called us to a worthy task. We can alert our representatives to the danger of allowing a Bush-tainted Attorney General to take office. Pick the most honest human being that you can find.
A blind-folded lady holding the scales of justice must be our credo.
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Bush's Infallibility Complex
[Read the article: Bush's Napoleon complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush and Napoleon have some things in common. But I don't believe Napoleon used God the way our born-again President does.
Of course one wonders what God says to shallow, unread, untraveled men such as George W. Bush. These are men who cheat at life. They don't play by the rules that we ordinary folks must play by.
When we get drafted we must serve or face jail time. When our company fails, there is no rich friend to bail us out. Three DUI's and we lose our license to drive. Faced with a law we do not like, we cannot simply choose to ignore it.
George Bush is not unlike a mentally disturbed person using Alfred Adler's definition.
"The psychoneurosis is forced by vanity and has the
ultimate purpose of safeguarding a person from a clash
with ... reality, and of sparing him the danger of having
the dark secret of his inferiority revealed."
p. 299 "The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler"
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Meremortal
[Read the article: Bush's Napoleon complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for the compliment. Cheers!
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Benjamin Has It Right and Seven NCO's in Iraq Agree with Him
[Read the article: Bush's new friends: The Sunnis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On August 19, 2007 seven non-commissioned officers wrote an OP-ED that appeared in the NY Times titled "The War as We Saw It". As members of the 82nd Airborne Division they were coming to the end of their 15-month tour. They wrote:
"To believe that Americans, with an occupying force
that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win
over a recalcitrant local population and win this
counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible
infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the
82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home,
we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying
the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel
it has neglected the mounting civil, political, and
social unrest we see every day."
And continuing:
"...while creating proxies is essential to winning a
counterinsurgency, it requires that the proxies are
loyal to the center that we claim to support. Armed
Sunni tribes have indeed become effective surrogates,
but the enduring question is where their loyalties
would lie in our absence. The Iraqi government finds
itself working at cross purposes with us on this issue
because it is justifiably fearful that Sunni militias
will turn on it should the Americans leave."
So Mark Benjamin has men in arms who agree with him.
And while a "Dog and Pony Show" in the Green Zone
may captivate and convince men like Senator Lindsay
Graham, troops on patrol at night think otherwise.
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Petraeus: "Our goal in Iraq is to defeat Al Qaeda there."
[Read the article: Bush gets no surge from Petraeus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last night, 9/10/07, General Petraeus told Brit Hume that our goal in Iraq is to defeat Al Qaeda there.
What irony! Al Qaeda was not in Iraq when we invaded in March 2003. They are there because a Christian army has invaded the cradle of Islam. When we leave, they will leave. Why? Because the Sunni tribes can't stand them and the Shiite government hates them. Al Qaeda makes up no more than 10% of the forces we fight.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda International uses our occupation as an excellant recruiting tool. They ask questions this Administration cannot answer truthfully. Why are we there? Both friends and enemies know the answer to this one. We are there for the oil.
If President Bush cared for the Iraqi's, a lot more than 500 or so of the 2,000,000 refugees from that country would be in the U.S. Why is that huge American Embassy being built in Baghdad ? Why so many of our military bases in Iraq and so little electricity for the Iraqi citizens ? One estimate to fix the electric grid was $50 Billion dollars.
You cannot defeat an idea with a gun. Only a better idea and the will to pursue justice can do the job. This Administration has already shown that it will torture, it will lie, and it will violate our Constition to make money for its corrupt puppet-masters of high finance.
General Petraeus cannot save this despicable Administration.
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My Hometown Newspaper Is Getting Ready To Publish Their NY Times Op-Ed
[Read the article: The unsettling deaths of Omar Mora and Yance Gray]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is very sad indeed that these brave souls are gone. Yet in a sense they are still with us. The point of their article was the danger to life for civilians and soldiers alike. When we write our letters to the editor, we will point out that Omar and Yance are the true messengers from Iraq and not General Petraeus nor Ambassador Crocker.
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My Advice to Move-On: Don't Use Labels (Be-Tray-us) on Others, Use Facts
[Read the article: Profiles in Democratic cowardice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, I am sympathetic to Move-On and GRATEFUL to them for the many positive things that they do. Still, having served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, I believe that General Petraeus is well-meaning. This is important.
What we want is much better civilian leadership from a new Administration and Congress. Move-On needs someone or an organization to vett such ads. Their ad did have many facts. What General Petraeus did was better characterized as "Mis-lead" us. Does anyone really think that this general is a traitor in the Benedict Arnold sense ?