Letters to the Editor
AnaHadWolves
Published Letters: 470 Editor's Choice: 25
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Facts? We Don't Need No Steenking Facts!
[Read the article: What George Tenet really knew about Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ladies and gentlemen, George Tenet's screed-cum-mea-culpa notwithstanding, the Iraq war was going to be fought no matter the intelligence...or lack thereof. The involvement of the New American Century cabal, of whom Dick Cheney was an original co-conspirator, foretold the invasion. 9/11 was the pretext for the war...not the reason for it.
When the final spook has been debriefed from The Agency, when the truth has been pried from the man-sized Mosler safes in Dick Cheney's office, when the death-bed confessions of those involved occurs and when un-shredded e-mails between the conspirators surface...and, all that will happen...the lies and Machiavellian machinations of The New American Century's Dick Cheney, Richard Pearle, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Dan Quayle, Jeb Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Zalmay Khalilzad, et al, will be proven. This group of thugs has manhandled American foreign policy to their own end: power, both political and economic.
Those of us who work against "the darkness" of the Right daily are just about to throw back the curtain on their Antonio Gramsci-type hegemony which, according to Gramsci, consists of socio-political power that flows from enabling the "spontaneous consent" of the populace through intellectual and moral leadership or authority as employed by the subalterns of the State. The power of the hegemony is thus utilized primarily through coercion and consent rather than armed force.
A careful appraisal of the policies and positions of the Bush Maladministration from day one of its bastardcy will prove the point. Those of us who fight daily against them will expose their villany. With the Supreme Court's recent approval, look for our "issue ads" to flourish and their anti-democratic agenda to be exposed. We have the financial depth, the political acumen, the public-relations/advertising expertise and the K-Street insider knowledge.
Paybacks are a bitch, Dick...
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@ Kevin Riley O'Keeffe
[Read the article: Rudy can fail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kevin...
When I wrote that "simply knowing that George W. Bush was/is an idiot wasn't enough to stop millions of our fellow citizens from voting for him in 2000 and, worse, in 2004.", I was writing from the position of first-hand observer.
I lived in Texas during Dubya's days as Guberanator. I was involved day-to-day with Texas politics. I know the family well and personally. Worst, I had to deal with Dubya and his minions mano-a-mano.
So, please don't tell everyone that "we couldn't have seen this idiot coming down the road." Those of us who knew/know him are of the same opinion...forged by observation and interaction: he is an idiot.
By the way, Barbara Bush's most gifted child was her dog Millie.
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Turnip-Twaddling, Indeed!
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Opus is this generation's Pogo. Old Walt Kelly, who drew the "Pogo" comic strip, once observed, through Pogo, that "we have met the enemy and he is us".
Brethed has reminded us, through Opus, of our techie/nerdie folly and the general silliness and shallowness of everyday American life.
Anyone who is offended by Opus needs serious couch-time with a shrink...lying right next to those odious cavemen from the "Geico" commercials.
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Bush Thinks A Legacy Is Connected To A Footacy
[Read the article: So what does that rug say now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sooo...Bush is waxing long about his "legacy"? He is, finally, concerned about how history will treat him? He has now become Nixonian, wandering the halls of the White House in the middle of the night...talking to the portraits of dead Presidents?
Here's your "legacy", George: To paraphrase Shakespeare, from The Scottish Play: "Bush is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...signifying nothing."
Shakespeare was, it seems, clairvoyant...
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Republican Stutter
[Read the article: Hillary commutes her views on Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course the Repooplicans will drag up Bill Clinton when trying to slam Hillary: they have nothing else!
You can always tell when Repooplicans are desperate; they always begin any refutation of fact with "...bbbbut, Clinton...bbbbut, Clinton!"
Lame, sad, pathetic and predictable.
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From Alabama, Circa 1955, To The White House
[Read the article: "It is my judgment"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George W. Bush, commuting Scooter Libby's sentence for a proven crime, is eerily reminiscent of those judges in 1955 Alabama. Well-connected members of the Ku Klux Klan, charged with killing blacks and savaging civil-rights activists, would invariably get a pass from those judges, even when "convicted" of those crimes.
With the Scooter Libby commutation, Lady Justice has been lynched by good ol' boy Dubya.
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The Torch Is Being Passed
[Read the article: The Hillary and Bill show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jeezus, how I miss Bill & Hillary as First Couple! When they were in the White House, I always knew that intelligence, competence, ability and foresight were there...in abundance. Unfortunately, with the current dumbass duo in power, I know that obnoxiousness, insipidity, stupidity and a crass courseness are there...in abundance.
No, the Bill & Hillary Show weren't perfect, but, I'll take a President who diddles an intern over one who continues to screw the country and the world.
Hillary Clinton will make a fine President of these United States; she could hardly do worse than Dumbya and his flea-circus of dolts.
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Nixon Versus Dumbya
[Read the article: "Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article can be summed up rather neatly:
Nixon, although flawed by his modest upbringing and unease with peers, was a driven and very intelligent man who did much for America, specifically with his China gambit in 1972; Bush, flawed because of his quasi-patrician upbringing and his lack of ethos and drive to actually become something worthwhile, is a man who has skated through life with no end-goal other than snorting coke and drinking till he puked. Then Dubya "found" Jesus. ("Jesus" in Dubya's case was probably Jesus Soliz "Chachi" Gonzalez...his mid-level coke dealer in Midland, Texas.)
Nixon vs. Dumbya: one had ambition, desire, drive, intellect, intelligence and purpose; one has hubris, blather, a propensity to bloviate and dissemble and enough character flaws for at least six Stephen King novels.
I'll leave it to you to try to determine which was/is which.