Letters to the Editor
MereMortal
Published Letters: 151 Editor's Choice: 19
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oh the irony
[Read the article: Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it's 43 years today since Claus von Stauffenberg carried out his plot to assasinate Hitler, how ironic that in Romney and Guilliani we have Sauffenbergs in reverse. Instead of plotting to get rid of their unacceptable leader, they vie with each other to outdo Bush and Cheney for chicken-hawkery. Courage has now been replaced by just being on-message as a new badge of merit for our future leaders. Despite Hitler's truly abysmal record, you can at least say about him that he had real guts, he fought bravely and was decorated in WWI. His experiences on the fields of France and Belgium are what largely shaped his view of the world to all our detriments. I have no desire to endorse Hitler but it is only factual to point out that he was no chicken-hawk of convenience, unlike our very own Adolph Guiliani and the other guy...
Well there's progress for you, the martial spirit of nazi Germany has come to America, but they've subcontracted out the nasty part where other people, presumably the little people, get to actually fight it out and die for your firmly held but disingenuous views.
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errrr.........
[Read the article: Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]uhm...yep DaveGo.... red face... of course it was 63 years ago today..., it wasn't a typo it was a crass arithmetic error, kind of me reminds me of James Danforth Quayle and the 'potatoe' incident
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as Howard Zinn said
[Read the article: Operation Iraq betrayal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"war corrupts everything and everyone it touches"
and so it has proved.
The thing with this crowd is that there is a two-fold reason for their change in mood, for their increased vituperativeness. Firstly having been around for 6 of their alloted 8 they feel the sands of time running out. Second, they've had 4 years in Iraq and 6 in Afghanistan of piling up the body count on their enemy and their own side only to find that the real world doesn't fit into their neat and self-serving ideology. For some people, disillusionment sets in, for other this is the moment to redouble the zeal. With time being called on this whole madness, genuine fear sets in "we haven't triumphed, what is to become of us when the other lot win in '08" you can bet your bottom dollar not matter what they tell you to your face, that this lot are running scared. The whole enterprise was about fear, first we were supposed to feel it in spades, but now whirlwind -like it has enveloped them as the world has become inured to their lies and fantasies. Even their worst enemy would not want to be in Bush's and Cheney's position right now. There is no escape, hubris always begets Nemesis, that's why the ancients went to the whole bother of codifying into a myth, as far as human nature goes, it's a stayer.
They've lost the argument, they've lost everyone's esteem, they're essentially a spent force. This doesn't mean that they won't force some last minute horror on Iran, but for all the sound and fury going on right now from uber morons like Kristol and Edelman et al, you won't find anything that creates any genuine traction or that converts anyone posessing anything resembling a sound mind. Laying waste to the republic is apt to mightily piss genuine patriots off, deep inside, they know this, saying "but Al Quaeda is coming to get us" is a pretty lame response to those patriots.
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the point has been well made on these letter pages
[Read the article: War, chaos and Bush's faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you have got the politicians you deserve, the society you deserve and the institutions you deserve, the media you deserve and the shocking public discourse that you deserve.
Even the best of your MSM media programmes (apart from say Bill Moyers and other rare exceptions) but the more liberal presenters like Chris Matthews and Tim Russert are in love with the pointless politicians and discredited pundits that are firmly ensconced in the dark heart of the Republican Noise Machine.
It's no use saying, "I" am a liberal I don't deserve Bush I voted for the other guy.
With all these things in place, you get a political atmosphere that is inevitable, a quality of analysis that is a combination of high delusion and self-deceit and scape-goating of entire cultures, total mis-diagnosis and wrong-headed cures that kill the patient. Your politicians and wannabe presidents range from the extreme to the insane, most are cowards too, nobody can call the military-industrial-congressional complex for what it is, rapacious and bloodthirsty and still be elected. Your country has moved so far to the right that it's a wonder your haven't all ended up treading water in the Atlantic.
If Dubbya [and what world-class cretin he is] doesn't elicit in you an action spirit borne of a justified and incandescent anger that who will?
As Ralf Nader said, "we have to stop making excuses for ourselves", what's to stop you all demonstrating, 3 or 4 or 6 or 15 million of you going Washington on a certain public holiday or any Saturday and stand up and be counted.
Nothing, that's what.