Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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"Justice" for me but not for thee....
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]CRL sez:
For those of you who would like to read the full, disgraceful statement of commutation, it's available here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070201463.html?hpid=topnews.
It reads as badly as the decision itself, claiming that all of the issues have been seriously considered and that the punishment is excessive, even though Libby was afforded excellent council and the full rights and priviledges of our judicial system before the sentence was rendered.
This is friggin' OUTRAGEOUS!!!
Libby, with a million dollar defence fund and some of the finest lawyers that money can buy, decides to tough it out and pleads not guilty. And gets smacked for it.
Dubya says that the sentence is excessive.
Tell that to the thousands of drug offenders, many represented (if one can call it that, in some of the more egregious cases) by PDs, nailed by tough sentencing laws and mandatory minimum sentences.
Guess it's "excessive" if it's one of your blue-blood lawyer consigliere, a good Republican party stalwart taking a bullet for his capo.
I say: ITMF!!! NOW!!! If the Dems won't do it, I suggest a "vote" with pitchforks and buckets of tar.
Cheers,
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@ halo30k
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Iran is active in Iraq, that is the ground truth. People might not like that but it these are the facts. When the leadership of the Medhi Army goes to Iran and the IRGC is running training camps in southern Iraq then that comes from Iran.
Actually, reliable intelligence sources have reported operations of foreign agents and troops in Iraq now for the last four years. You just haven't been paying attention, it seems.
Cheers.
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@ halo30k
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Arne Langsetmo --
I didn't say that hasn't been reported for the last 4 years.
We were responding to the article from Michael Gordon.
I'm well aware that their have been Iranian intel in country for the last 4+ years.
Dumb as a post. I meant the friggin' U.S. invasion and occupation, you doorknob....
Cheers,
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Another "Clinton's penis" post from Shorter042
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excuse me... Berger stole documents, lied about it, and got probation.
Berger didn't reveal any secrets, he didn't out any CIA agents working to rid the world of nuclear weapons, he didn't lie about it, he wasn't convicted of perjury, much less obstruction of justice, and he pleaded guilty and accepted the court's punishment. Then he didn't get the entire cast of Republican heavyweights writing letters post conviction about how he's such a nice guy and has been unfairly treated for committing a crime. He didn't then continue denying that he did so, disclaiming all responsibility for his actions and showing no remorse.
Cheers,
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@ L.W.M.
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Treeman is not an American (Read his first letter) so he may threaten the POTUS to his heart's content.
Ummmm ... there are those Predators with Hellfires....
Cheers,
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David Brooks, RNC apparatchik
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The farce is over. It has no significance. Nobody but Libby’s family will remember it in a few weeks time. Everyone else will have moved on."
Brooks is claiming that he has the long-term memory of a garden slug. But in fact, he's hoping that we do. Bought and paid for.
Cheers,
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@ biggerbox
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, Mr. Adams
"to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men."
Sorry, Mr. Adams. We appreciate the suggestion, but the President has decided that concept to be "no longer operative."
Ummm, the word du jour is "quaint". A "government of laws and not of men" is just a quaint idea, passe in these parlous times.
Cheers,
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Some stoopid azo said....
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... The real problem with all this, is that you folks really don't care about secrecy per se, you are just impatient to take over the reins of government and are fishing for leverage.
Yeah, right, secret detentions and deportations, torture and killing of suspects without trial, mass roundups based on per capita bounties, spying without warrant, "national security letters", gag rules, the abolition of the Great Writ, the embalming of any actual working press, all that kind of fluff, yeah, it really doesn't bother us good-thinking brownshirt-wannabees. It's all about the power, and, to be honest, all that shite above, it'll actually come in handy once we get it.
Oh. Wait.....
Cheers,
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I knew it, I knew it,,,,
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Worse people here are working themselves into a snit over things that are absurd, irrelevant, or legal.
Some stoopid azo here thinks that following the laws, respecting the Constitution, and not tortuting people (not to mention being minimally competent and honest) is not something for a good brownshirt wannabee to trouble his tiny cranium about (but strangely enough, thinks that when others take alarm, it has to be that these others do so simply because they want power themselves). Projection, much?
Cheers,
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Some stoopid azo said....
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously noone is bothering to make sure everyone understands this is about Habeus for ALIENS, as in NON-CITIZENS....
... same goes for the Thirteenth Amendment. Slavery is still legal; just make sure you're chaining up a wetback or a chink.
Cheers,
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Some stoopid azo said....
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the end the entire exercise of Iraq will go down as a learning experience[....] It will have been a relatively inexpensive lesson....
Spooter sez that to some bereaved military family and he'll be needing dentures before he thought he would (assuming he's capable of thinking at all)...
Then there's his "relatively inexpensive lesson". Some folks are of the considered opinion that half a trillion bucks ain't chump change. I could have educated the lot of 'em (to the extent such is possible) for half that price, and everyone would have been better off ... if they'd only asked.
Cheers,
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Some wilfully ignerrent azo said....
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][A]sk yourselves what the outcome could have been if Saddam had either come clean,...
He didsee what happened when the below situation pertained.
... or actually had WMD's and used them....
And while you're at it, ask what the futures are for cast iron umbrella stock if pigs could fly.
... This decade's dominant event was the result of one man's hubris. And so goes history.
True. And everyone here knows the one-letter acronym for this criminal eedjit.
Thanks, Spooter, for putting forth the RW's best "argument". Helps clarify the situation.
Cheers,
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@ Elephantman
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm Okay with the Republican Party being "the party of the Iraq war."
As long as the Democrats would be willing to be the "the party of the Iraq surrender."
Ummm, who are we "surrendering" to?!?!? The Deciderator-In-Chief has said Iraq is a sovereign country, and the gummint we so helpfully put in is nominally in power. So WFT is this "surrender" crapola?
Cheers,