Letters to the Editor
Nita Martin
Published Letters: 271 Editor's Choice: 62
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Thank God for Chris Hedges
[Read the article: The holy blitz rolls on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The biggest problem with the religious right's mission to obliterate democracy and install a totalitarian theocracy (definitely fascism)is the reluctance of anyone to take on religion as anything other than pure and good.
It's what they count on. It's what the Bush administration has counted on in their efforts to recruit and pander to the Christian conservatives. Along with the argument that "if you don't support the war in Iraq, you are a traitor", there is the even more insidious "if you don't support the agenda of the Christian right, you are a godless heathen and a degenerate."
For the most part, we've allowed them to get away with it. Even Michelle Goldberg admits her reluctance to tackle these people head-on. All you have to do is see the way the popular evangelists live to know they are not "of the people". All you have to do is listen to Dobson rail about his political views and how he owned the White House, to know that these people are avaricious, political animals who are willing only to exploit, not to uplift. And whose own moral code allows them to commit the very "sins" they are determined to root out of the rest of society. Thank you Chris Hedges...for having the courage to preach the gospel of truth loud and clear. It's about time.
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The boat sailed
[Read the article: The sense of the Senate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't matter how many of our stalwart people on the hill are in the boat with George or refusing to get on board....the boat sailed, people. And it's riding the crest of the "surge" already.
When Bushco finally gets around to saying it's going to do something, you can bet they've already done it. So it is with this misguided, misnamed maneuver. Redeployed, stop-lossed and extended (but hardly fresh) troops are already on deck in the Middle East. And as the Boy King pronounced this weekend, he doesn't care what anyone says...he's going ahead. Except he's already gone.
The biggest problem with our Congress isn't that they're wimps, it's that they insist on playing by the rules in the extreme just to protect their pensions, while Bush has never played by the rules. It's a difference in political expediency and the troops and the American people aren't on anyone's "to do" list.
The best this governing body can do is stop pussy-footing around about procedural niceties and vote counts and take this President down with a little old-fashioned passion and force. It's time to get tough with this "my way or the highway" bully. He's gutted the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Why is Congress so worried about being absolutely, positively, excrutiatingly sure they have the right to do something before they do it? Waiting for a sign from above? Sorry...according to Bush, the great Almighty is not your daddy.
For those of us who are sick to death of death...and worry about death, and guilt about non-death, and thankfulness for each day our kids are still alive when it's their right to be alive...DO SOMETHING. TURN THE TITANIC AROUND. NOW!
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Holy Crap on a Cracker
[Read the article: Sacrifice, Bush style: Watch TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought I'd heard this soul-less insensitive, half-witted jackass go about as far as he could in diminishing the "sacrifices" that are being made by the VERY few, the proud, the abused, who are shouldering the entire burden for not only a cadre of "You Sunk My Battleship" playing Neocons and their a "let's play dress-up" leader, but for the entire nation as well. And apparently for the entire world. This is an unprecedented accomplishment even for him.
Someone needs to take him on a tour of Walter Reed to see the people he has frighteningly referred to as "MY military" ... with their faces, arms and legs blown off. With their sight, their speech, their mobility, their minds...gone. Someone should drag him to every single funeral for a dead service member. Someone should make him sit beside every wife and mother who hasn't heard from a loved one in days or weeks, and see her jump when the phone or the doorbell rings. Someone needs to tell him what it's like to live in grinding fear every day. Someone needs to let him experience losing a job, a house, a car because he has been forced to risk his life for slave wages while the rest of America merely has to, in George's words "sacrifice peace of mind when the see the terrible images of violence on TV every night."
Spoken like a man who has truly never made a sacrifice in his life, and who fails miserably to understand what sacrifice really is.