Letters to the Editor
MereMortal
Published Letters: 151 Editor's Choice: 19
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One trick pony
[Read the article: Remembering Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everything, but everything was predicated on a swift and convincing victory in Iraq that would leave the Iraqis feeling overwhelmingly grateful, the middle East falling into line and the Republicans basking in all this reflected glory, reaping the admiration of the world and of the American electorate. Then the Dems would look like the turkeys they are.
This was Rove's masterplan, Eliminate Saddam in order to turn Iraq into a neo-liberal beacon on a tight electoral timetable, never mind the specifics, it's a bold plan, it's a creative plan, we feel grrrrrreat about this, we're all winners. No time for doubt, no time for that sourpuss Powell and his stupid state department and their boring multi-thousand page 'Iraqi reconstruction' document.
Rove was a one-trick pony and his one trick blew up in the administration's face and in the world's face, where he excelled was in giving people access and denying people access and meting out punishment to miscreants and to those who are off-message, none of this is any use or any preparaion for the mind-boggling complexity and meticulous planning needed for nation-building, the wisdom of which is open to much doubt in any case.
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Good riddance
[Read the article: We'll go no more a-Rove-ing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So much could be written about Karl Rove, with his Bloefeld bond baddy appearence and his symmetically pleasing 4 letter first and last names. So much could be said. However the simplest thing I could say as lifelong left of center romantic is that any Republican with a shred of integrity should be more angry about Rove et al than even Democrats.
Yesterday Sidney spoke about Rove on Newsnight in London, and he was far more measured than in this article where his controlled anger shines through, not hint of 'ratfucker' on Newsnight. He was accompanied as an opposing talking head by the frankly insane David Rivkin. That's the kind of Republican who sees nothing wrong with Rove.
The republic is bigger than these crooks, but with Bush's polls tanking it shows that the public has serious misgivings which says to me that they are ahead of congress which seems to give in at every opportunity.
Bye bye Karl, maybe you will evade hand-cuffs, and have no sleepless nights, and as always justice is harder to come by when the crime is so plain in sight and perpetrated by the chief gimp of the poweful.
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yes @anahadwolves
[Read the article: We'll go no more a-Rove-ing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]his point was at best...incoherent, it's not dissent, being disagreed with from a thoughtful or well argued position is worthwhile...it's the mindless variety that is such a common feature of internet letter pages
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100% agreed Joe
[Read the article: Giuliani's dangerous bluster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]reading Joe Conason's corruscatingly angry piece about Giuliani this morning at 6:40AM london time was like having a triple-shot espresso. I love Joe's honest and irritated prose. He does not like the man and he doesn't bother with all that vile point/counterpoint that infests the US broadcast media, "...and speaking for the ebola virus is conservative commentator..."
The fake reputation of Giuliani was forged in the crucible of 9/11, like all the other bullshit that the vile republicans have foisted on us and the world, since that day. Naomi Klein gave a speech available on 'Democracy now' in which she pointed out that 9/11 was fantastically useful as a tool to reset [i.e wipe out] all the advancement made by the progressive movement. The very next day, a new show was in town and that was the extensively privatised and mostly bogus War on Terror, to which Adolph Giuliani is and was a major signitory. [see Bernard Kerik and Giuliani's own company]
The hubris of the man, calling his 2005 book 'Leadership', how modest, he may as well have used the real title he wanted to use "Read in these page how great and noble and clever I am, and for my party piece I will become your president"
what hubris, if the voters go for him....I despair