Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ jpinkus
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amongst all the other ignorant rantings, we have:
In his arrogant and smarmy way, Greenwald wants us to stay home and allow our allies to fight their own wars, even though terrorism knows no national boundaries and that it doesn't matter where a state sponsor of terrorism resides. Fine. Among many problems, there is a major flaw in this logic:
In one fell swoop, Mr. Greenwald just undercut our entire
rationale for fighting World War II in Europe. While the Japanese attacked us directly, the Germans did not. The Germans attacked our allies in Europe and threatened world domination using their highly efficient war machine, including rockets. If we had adopted Mr. Greenwald's "stay-at-home" philosophy, Europe would most likely be speaking German now and Mr. Greenwald's grandparents, I'd harbor to guess, would be charcoal.
Germany declared war on us (not to mention having already fired on U.S. warships in September, 1940).
And it was the Repubicans at the time that wanted us to stay out of the war with Germany (if not secretly or even not-so-secretly to join on the side of Germany).
Cheers,
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Amongst other LOADS of R W hosresh*t....
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"tiberius" said:
You have no respect for our process of electing leaders unless they agree with you....
You misspelled "citizens" and screwed up the pronoun.
WTF does "our process of electing leaders" (if that is ideed wat happened) have to do with Lieberman's Likudnik tendencies?
Lieberman got elected because the Republicans didn't vote for the Republican candidate, and instead voted for the DINO Lieberman (who had gotten one of those cherished head-rubs from Dubya). Is that sick or what?!?!?
Cheers,
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The troll PoliticalRealityOnlinecomes clean....
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... hereby exposing America's vital access to Middle East crude oil to control by our most committed and ruthless enemies.
To paraphrase the wonderful movie "Cool Hand Luke" (which the moron "PRO" prolly hasn't seen): "What's our oil doing under Iraq's sand???"
Thanks for being honest, you moron.
Cheers,
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"shooter024" makes up his own 'facts'...
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... actually, he prolly heard them from His Emanence Rush/Ins-Hannity/Freeperville:
By the way Libby wasn't found guilty of outing Plame, he was convicted of having the wrong recollection of where he heard about her.
No. He lied about who he told about Plame's job.
You're entitled to your own (misguided and ignerrent) opinions, "Shooter042", but you aren't entitled to your own 'facts'.
Now please FOAD. And I mean that in the nicest way.
Cheers,
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@ scientician
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can't wave your hands away from that. The "ham sandwich" line doesn't work for Jury trials. 12 people saw the evidence, heard the defence, and decided they believed the Prosecution's version of events rather than Libby's unlikely string of forgetfulness which all amounted to protecting the Administration and preventing the pursuit of justice.
Not only "more likely than not", but rather "beyond reasonable doubt".
Cheers,
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Orin Kerr sez...
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jim Montague, quoting Orin Kerr:
"That's why I think Al-Marri would be a repeat of Hamdi if it got to the Supreme Court. I imagine the Court holding that the AUMF is sufficient to detain non-citizen Al Qaeda members who entered the U.S. to execute attacks, and then moving on to what kind of Due Process hearing Al-Marri is entitled to receive to test whether he is in fact such a person."
The whole problem that the al Marri court found was that there never was any kind of "due process" hearing ... nor was there any requirement or even probable prospect that some vague simulacrum of such would ever be done. They said that perhaps some "substitute" for the right to habeas corpus might legally suffice, but seeing as the only guarantee of even the "stacked deck" CSRT hearings was the gummint's promise they'd do such -- if the court dropped the case -- the court said that this promise wouldn't substitute for a real review.
Why Prof. Kerr thinks this obvious outcome would be reversed is not at all obvious.
Cheers,
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"Shooter042" is an eedjit....
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Responding to this:
Libby could have easily said "I learned of Valerie Plame's CIA employment from Vice-President Cheney" (and possibly, though implausibly, argued that he did not know of or remember Plame's covert status)—but, of course, then he would have implicated the OVP.
Our resident troll and eedjit said:
Or more realistically he could have stated that he heard it first from the State Dept and CIA.
And what the hell difference does that make to Scooter's criminal culpability? But Scooter hasn't even said that. He's still disavowing any knowledge of his own actions, even though he's been convicted of perjury for such.
Cheers,
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@ prunes
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]THERE'S NO PROFIT MOTIVATION FOR SUICIDE BOMBERS.
Yes there is. And you misspelled "prophet".
;-)
BTW, I'm just kidding you. But I couldn't resist a bad pun.
Cheers,
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A thread of reality creeps in to the Devonian rostrum of Shooter242....
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never expect to be taken seriously by this group...
That was no surprise to anyone else here. Why it took you this long doesn't reflect well on you.
Cheers,
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Ms. Paglia
[Read the article: Don't run, Al. Don't!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a better candidate for retirement and irrelevancy: You.
You've been spewing trite crappy psychobabble for far too long, and to what end?
OTOH, Al Gore just gets better (and smarter) with age, not to mention he's working on stuff that is truly interesting to him as well as hopefully useful to others.
Cheers,
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"Shooter042" is still an eedjit....
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So let's see. The front runners are,
* A freshman Senator with ethics problems,
* A populist rich guy who is the very image of a fat cat capitalist,
* another Senator whose claim to fame is someone else's last name. And ethics problems.
"Ethics problems" (n): See "Cunningham", "DeLay", "Doan", "Goodling", "Claude Allen", "Safavian", etc., etc.
As for "populist rich guy[s]", your party is thick (as thieves) with them. When did this become the "mark of Cain" to true-blooded Republicans?
That seems problematical, plus you know how Republicans have the voting machines all rigged. It's early, but I wouldn't buy the curtains for the White House just yet.
How'd "shooter042" call Nov. 2006? Anyone remember (or better yet, have a link)? I do remember that "Bart" was completely off-base there.....
Cheers,