Letters to the Editor
Nita Martin
Published Letters: 271 Editor's Choice: 62
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What's an overworked Attorney General to do. Sigh.
[Read the article: What Gonzales said; what Gonzales did]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Al" (three syllables is too much for Bush) Gonzales shouldn't be held accountable for his words and actions. After all, he appears, on the face of his comments to be completely mentally incompetent, unable to know lies from truth, right from wrong.
It's obvious. He has achieved the highest level of judicial oversight in the country. He claims that he supervises 110,000 people and couldn't possibly know what was being done in regard to his U.S. Attorneys who number in the top 1/10th of 1% of his "subordinates". (It's all those damn secretaries he has to keep an eye on. Is somebody taking paperclips home?) it has to follow that he is just plain crazy (or "gonzo", if you will), or working with an IQ of 60. Either of which probably made him the perfect Bush appointee, but isn't working now that the lights are on.
Referring to his position as "CEO" is just plain "Bushie" Republican hubris. (Hello....The Enron and Worldcom defense doesn't apparently work, either)But claiming he is too busy counting bathroom breaks to look out for his U.S. Attorneys is just too laughable for anyone to keep reporting without following it with a winking smiley face.
And another thing....everyone is so caught up in the concept that Bush can replace whomever he wants, so the lies don't matter, that they are missing the real problem here. It's not the firings and the lying...it is the attempt by this administration to put a Republican lock on our judicial system. To create, as someone else put it, an inquisition, that will take care of pesky Democrats and other dissenters once and for all. There is a reason we have lines between the three branches of government. This administration has attempted to cross them illegally. THAT's the crime. Everything else is the trail of breadcrumbs...and it needs to be followed right into the oval office, with Alberto Gonzales on a choke chain sniffing out the way.
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Shell game
[Read the article: Army deployed seriously injured troops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Finally this is all being dragged out from under the camo carpet. For four years, we "military moms" have been calling the administration on the reality of deployment: "The troops will be redeployed and redeployed until they are ground into dust." (Nita Martin on Paula Zahn 2004.) The "liberal" (wink) media has ignored the obvious in the hope that one more roll of the dice or deal of the cards would let Bush come out a winner after all.
While pundits and "journalists" (I use the quotes deliberately) talk about how many more soldiers Bush is sending, and use words like "reinforcements", we have been pointing out that these are the SAME TROUPS. They are having their tours extended, their deployments moved closer together. They are being stop-lossed into unending military servitude. Now, they are being sent into battle not only fatigued and ill-equipped or unequipped...they are being sent in injured.
This isn't new. It's been happening all along. The only reason it's being noticed is that now they have to do it in such ridiculous intensity that it can no longer be concealed or ignored.
And it goes deeper than the obvious. Consider this...soldiers who have witnessed the horrific deaths and dismemberments of their comrades...not being given counseling or care for depression, but being put on powerful drugs that impair their energy, strength, judgement and then being forced out onto the streets of Baghdad. It is happening every day. It happened to my friend's son who overturned a Bradley while being treated with anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs.
At this point, how can there be a single person in this country who still supports the madness of King George and his Iraq misadventure? Bush, his key administrative officials and the entire military hierachy which has refused to speak the truth and dare to support their own troops, need to be held accountable. Now.
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Shocked and Ashamed
[Read the article: Army deployed seriously injured troops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is it about stories that have to do with the deplorable treatment of our fighting forces that seems to bring out the nutcakes, the freepers and the people insistent on talking about Jews? The last story about injured troops brought out hordes of vicious whackos whose bile literally drove me from the site for about a week.
The subject at hand is soldiers, Marines and National Guardsmen, and how America has a contract with them that it is refusing to honor.
Those harping on about what I call "they made their bed now let them die it it" are not paying attention. Months ago, the main military family of publications "Army Times" revealed that the rank and file military are NOT behind this...are NOT supportive of Bush...and like the rest of us...HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
Anyone naive/stupid enough to think that the military elected Bush shouldn't be posting here. Oh wait, that level of stupidity would make it impossible to post here. So all this anti-miltary...they're whiners, etc. is just disengenuous. "Bushies" don't like dissenters. So those being, as one erudite poster put it "shat on" should just shut up? A couple of contrived photo ops with Bush surrounded by people in uniform doesn't give him license to speak for the people he is abusing. And to the poster who vowed his disgust for these people, but support for battered women....you hateful weasel. Our troops are battered and abused. They're too honorable to mutiny. And if they did, they would be branded as criminals.
The pettiness and gratuitous mean-spirited "political" positions people take on these outrageous revelations is sickening.