Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ Elephantman
[Read the article: The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](I favored the removal of Saddam based on Iraq's unrelenting targeting of, and resistnace to, our defense of the Northern and Southern No-Fly Zones. If you target an American warplane, in my view, and keep doing it for ten years, it is an act of war.)
So we fly planes over someone else's territory, under the rubric of a unilaterally imposed "no-fly zone", and we provoke the defences over the rest of the country with incursions, send in a HARM when they dare to turn on their radars, send in cruise missiles every once in a while just to remind them what bad-asses we are, and complain about the few occasions when they take ineffectual pot-shots at us?!?!?
Not a single plane was lost to Iraqi AAD, not a single pilot killed. How's that "unrelenting targeting of, and resistance to, our defence of the [no-fly zones]"?
Talk about a "Knock this chip off my shoulder. I dare you...."
Then there was that ill-conceived plot to paint up a U-2 with UN markings and try to get it shot down to provoke a casus bellum. You're an eedjit, Dumbo ... or a dissembler ... or most probably both.
Cheers,
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"shooter" sings a song that copyright exired on centuries ago....
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can excoriate the MSM all you like (and they will remember), but the Moyers piece demonstrated plenty of cautionary dissent, and that nobody wanted to hear it. Certainly not the Democrat Senate....
Shorter Shooter: "Clinton did it! Clinton did it!!! It was Clinton's penis.... <*wauuughhhh*>"
When Shooter admits that the evidence was there, and that the maladministration not only didn't listen (as he accuses the Democrats of here), but actively tried to bury the truth in their rush into a stoopid and sanguinary war, maybe we'll be getting somewhere. Until then, Shooter should just STFU; he doesn't even have any IED-truncated trunks to stand on.
Cheers,
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One missing word
[Read the article: War as reality rather than cartoon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, from the post]: Only people who have adolescent views of war -- only people for whom war is a distant, cartoon concept and not a reality, the primary purpose of which is to endow themselves with personal sensations of strength, power and purpose in the most risk-free manner possible -- have the luxury of indulging such fantasies.
On the anniversary of "Commander Codpiece" (and the stomach-churning fawning of Chris Matthews), you ought to include "penises" at the end of "strength, power and purpose".
Just think of the number of penis pumps we could have bought for the insecure neocon f*ckwits in the maladministration for the $421B we've spent.
Cheers,
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Jon Stewart
[Read the article: War as reality rather than cartoon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Moyers, Jack Cafferty... anybody feel a "Special Comment" coming on? Anybody?
I have a "Jon Stewart for President" T-shirt; used to be a joke, but maybe not so much any more. Hell, Stewart's book is far better than Dubya's (not to mention far better selling).
Cheers,
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@ Paul Rosenberg
[Read the article: War as reality rather than cartoon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think another chorus of "Blame Canada!" would be more in order. Catholics are only a plurality there.
Can the whup-ass wait until Friday? I'm in Toronto this week.... ;-)
Cheers,
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Minor point....
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt and the "Triumphant Top Gun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, quoting the WaPo editorial:
DID PRESIDENT BUSH arrive by fighter jet when he could have taken a helicopter -- for $ 7 less per hour?
A S-3B Viking is not a fighter jet (on a similar note, "Tweety" Matthews talking about Dubya arriving in a F-18 [which is a fighter/attack plane] was not accurate either).
Cheers,
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@ L.W.M.
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt and the "Triumphant Top Gun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's true the Viking is not a hi-perfomance fighter AC. It is a full fledged multi-role combat jet AC. It carries all types of munitions when not in use as an overhead mission tanker.
It's a subsonic ASW/tanker/attack plane:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/s-3.htm
Not much in terms of AA weaponry.
Hey, I got an idea. Let's let Dubya fly the S-3B in a dogfight mano a mano with an Iranian fighter..... ;-)
Cheers,
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Why bother asking?
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, from the post]: That is why -- as jarring as it is -- it is actually necessary to ask presidential candidates whether they intend to exercise the power to imprison American citizens with no charges of any kind.
Yes, it certainly is jarring to have to ask whether a presidential aspirant plans on upholding the law.
But why bother asking? If they're willing to break the law for expediency's sake (or even less "noble" purposes), they're going to be willing to lie through their teeth.
Instead, we ought to investigate for ourselves what they're likely to do, show it, demonstrate it, and spread this information as far and as wide as possible.
Cheers,