Letters to the Editor
Nita Martin
Published Letters: 270 Editor's Choice: 62
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Na Na Na Na Na Prove it!
[Read the article: Setting the bar low]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush's stubborn support of those who have corrupted the offices to which he has elevated them is incredible. But although his main excuse cum assertion is that they have "broken no laws"...what he really means is that no one can catch them breaking the law....given his vast network of backdoors, coverups, and slavish neobots who won't depart from the approved talking points. Deny. Deny. Deny.
Although it would be wonderful to nab them all for the actual crimes they have committed, Congress may have to be satisfied with the time-honored tactic of nailing them for lying under oath. Or tax evasion. Exactly how many dependents is Bush claiming, anyway?
Keep the subpoenas coming! Plenty for everyone!
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"Dearly beloved Bushes"
[Read the article: "Dearly beloved Bushes"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sounds like something you would call them during a EULOGY. And that's what this is. Because even as Larry King trowels the cosmetic layer over their cold, dead faces, the legacy of contempt for human decency, democracy, fairness, justice, etc. etc. is still going to be the Bush legacy.
The only thing good about the "W" years is the certainty that we will never again have a Bush in the White House. And eventually, when Larry King's pandering crap has seen it's last gasp... we won't even have to watch them posturing on television, trying to grind the tarnish off the family name.
I would feel sorry for GHWB except for a vivid memory from the 2004 campaign trail. We were in Cincinatti, and GHWB was addressing a local group at the same time. We delivered a letter requesting his intervention in the misguided direction of his son's presidency. Our answer: his comments reported in the local paper were "please help my boy get re-elected." No reason...just "help my boy". He asked for it, we got it. I wonder if he sleeps at night. I'm guessing...not. Although I'm pretty certain Barbara (of the beautiful mind) is snoring away obliviously, secure in the knowledge that all those homeless folks and body bags are conveniently out of her sight.
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It's all about the money....
[Read the article: The Pentagon's chronic neglect of Iraq vets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It isn't hard to figure out how the failures in veterans care and benefits came about. Those in responsible charge, including Weightman, Kiley and Chu all have backgrounds which are conducive to denying care and cutting costs. Weightman was an HMO CEO, Kiley was from a financial accounting background. Chu is an economist. It appears that the primary qualification for managing the care of our veterans is a strong background in denying, eliminating or short-shrifting services in order to save money.
The fact that people like these were placed in their positions is all you need to know to understand that the DOD and the Pentagon not only knew about this horrible situation, but deliberately orchestrated it.
As for the "focus groups"...they provided a smoke screen of interest and fulfilled requirements. No one said they actually had to DO something about their findings. They asked the questions and buried the answers. That's all that was necessary in the mind of these greedy, amoral administration bureaucrats.
And all this, while Halliburton and the others carry money off by the pallet-load for services that were substandard or missing in action.
Appalling. But not at all surprising.
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Laura needs to walk a few hundred miles in my shoes...or barefoot on glass shards...same thing
[Read the article: It's hard work, or maybe it isn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm with Garry Owen...it's bad enough Bush is doing this, and belligerently insists on continuing his disastrous course.
It's bad enough Bush exhibits nothing but callous disregard for the carnage he is inflicting on our troops and innocent Iraqi's. And for the aftermath.
And it's bad enough that there are dozens of quotes over the past several years in which he smirks that he has absolutely no trouble sleeping at night.
But now we have to be slapped with Laura's crap about how hard this is on THEM!
Note to Laura Bush: I've been through three deployments of two children to Iraq. You have no fucking idea of what fear and stress is. And I've been lucky...my kids are alive.
How DARE you even suggest that ANYONE should care about the weight of this situation on you and its chief perpetrator. All those idiots who are "praying" for you and W would be better Christians if they started praying for the troops who are bearing the horrific consequences of this...and for a way out of your husband's mess.
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Cowboy as King
[Read the article: From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is something very deep and basic about George Bush's fixation on the old West, and his vision of himself in the saddle.
The day the true extent of this finally sunk in for me was the day he smirked his way haltingly through the famous "wanted dead or alive" speech. "There was a saying in the old West" that he had heard about and seemed to want to educate the rest of us about...as though we were just hearing it for the first time and he had just discovered his own cleverness. Wanted, dead or alive. A simple idea for a simple man.
It's the ultimate power. The sheriff who can declare who lives or dies, without benefit of the courts. Judge Roy Bean being drunk and all. This is the world of Bush's twisted psyche. Where there are no laws, except his. And where he is accountable to no one. And where John Wayne swagger makes you a real man, even if you're hiding under your own bed while your deputies and the mob they whip up do the hanging for you.
The very law was lawlessness in Bush's old West.
And that's just the way George likes it.
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McCain: So many choices, so little courage.
[Read the article: Senate sets Iraq timetable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We know what Tim Johnson is recovering from. What kept McCain from voting...recuperating from his Baghdad shopping trip, or his moving rendition of "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran"?
Maybe I'm for it, maybe I'm not. Maybe I'm partly for it, maybe I'm partly not. You can't fool or please all of the people all of the time ...but maybe, just maybe, you can get away with not putting your vote out there on the line, and on the record. Think anyone noticed?