Letters to the Editor
jag
Published Letters: 16
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shrub is not Boromir
[Read the article: Can Frodo save Iraq?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boromir eventually recognized the error of his ways and made the ultimate sacrifice to try to make amends. Does anyone realy expect that from shrub and his ilk?
Try Saruman instead. He managed to sink to Saurons level on almost every issue, only the scale was different and he did it. Think turdblossom as Wormtongue. Think cheney as Denethor.
Saruman and shrub even have similar environmental policies.
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Kerry Probably DID Win in 2004
[Read the article: Right, but actually winning the White House would have been nice, too]
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Journalists need to stop pulling punches to make amends.
[Read the article: Iraq: Why the media failed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the war drums beat, the Beltway press bought and bought and bought -- before they discovered they'd been sold.
In my opinion most of them are STILL bought and paid for or at the very least in denial. There are plenty of stories out there in the alternative media like Glenn Greenwald's on ABC failing to correct their flawed reporting on the links between saddam hussein and the anthrax letters, and right wing blow hards who got EVERYTHING wrong (through stupidity or duplicity) like john fund, tony blankly and bill kristol are still being invited to represent a credible opinion on so-called fair and balanced shows.
To oppose the war, one had to challenge the two real reasons behind it -- the neoconservative crusade against "Islamofascism" and the cold warriors' desire to assert American power -- head on.
You ignore two additional reasons: money and oil. You can't seriously argue that cheney wasn't in it for the money. As far as I'm aware, he still has a serious stake in the financial well-being of halliburton, and bush has been and always will be a blunt(dull?) tool of the oil industry.
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Msg to Mark Knoller
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know where Knoller gets the idea that the white house press corp wasn't acting as a propaganda tool for the administration, but all you have to do is compare the performance of the vast majority of them to the only competent journalist of the bunch, Helen Thomas, and how the various press secretaries have gone out of their way to marginalize her and how rarely her "colleagues" stood up for her.
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Only issues I have with this article:
[Read the article: We'll go no more a-Rove-ing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are at least as many questions about the 2004 presidential election as there are about the 2000 debacle. In my opinion bush stole both of them.
Kerry might not have been your first choice to run against bush, but the only people saying he wasn't a credible and worthy candidate (especially compared to the competition) are those who gave too much credence to the republican noise machine or who drank the kool-aid prepared for them by the turd blossom.
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No crimes?
[Read the article: Pedophile blogger unfairly targeted?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reckless Endangerment, Child Abuse, Stalking, Violation of Privacy...
how many of those girls whose pictures he posted signed release forms? How many of their parents?
This psychopath might not have been in direct, physical contact with minors, but he was certainly aiding and abetting others who might not be so "standoffish." If you consider the only "thing" capable of committing an act of murder is a human being, every fan of this persons blog is a potential deadly weapon in the hands of the criminal who points him in the right direction.
Admitted pedophiles and child molesters should be castrated, permanently equipped with a tracking device, kept behind bars in prison or in a secure mental institution until such time as they're no longer a threat, or, if proved incurable, they should be relocated to death row.
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@mcb1025
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The way I understand it, the entire republican party has been covering up for craig's "questionable behavior" for years, just like they did for foley and a growing list of other hypocritical right-wing demagogues in the march to moral correctness.
There's ample reason to paint anyone still espousing republican "values" with the same bush. They've been painting themselves into a corner with that bush for years. There's nothing moral, conservative or even American about the modern republican party. They've burned all those bridges.
... oh, and the snide little quip about people coming to their senses on this matter implies that senses were at some point lost. The only people lacking perspective on this matter are those like you who have been denying the reality on the ground.
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@Paglia: You lost me on the second paragraph
[Read the article: How secure are you? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Bush administration assures us that, thanks to its invisible hand, we are far safer than we would have been with a bleeding-heart Democrat at the helm. I suspect this is true: The lack of scruple about constitutional guarantees that has been openly flaunted by Vice President Dick Cheney might well have nipped nascent conspiracies in the bud -- though at the price of the massive surveillance and targeting of innocent citizens.
I was so pissed off after reading about your "suspicion" that I haven't gone back to read the rest of your article and I'm not sure I will.
There's no statistic that supports your assertion that bush and cheney have made us safer at all. In fact, most of those I'm aware of show exactly the opposite, that we're less safe now than prior to 9/11. If you want your opinions to be respected, you'll have to back up the bs.