Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 2950
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Accuracy Personified
[Read the article: The Padilla verdict]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Last train to insultville....."
Empty attitudes, empty noises and a sneer. Hard to find an actual human being under all that belligerent greasepaint....-- William Timberman
-- shooter242
If one were to say that Shit smells and looks gross, would that be seen as insulting said Shit, or would that just be simply accurately describing said Shit?
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Answer to Paul's Quiz
[Read the article: The Padilla verdict]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter immediately jumps to the conclusion that that means that 90% of people are lying cheating bastards. What does this tell us about shooter?
hmmmmm......
-- Paul Dirks
I know! I know! Ummm, he's lying, cheating bastard? :o)
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Ondelette
[Read the article: The Padilla verdict]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If you can get to NYT Op-Ed
You should read "The War as We Saw It" on today's Op-Ed page. Written by 6 American soldiers in Baghdad,"
Readers can go to Juan Cole's 'Informed Comment'. He comments on that article and gives the link. The link takes you right to it. I don't know what happened to 'The Wall' but it ain't keepin' out anyone who wants to read that article. It's an informative article.
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From the article:
[Read the article: The Padilla verdict]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day. (Obviously, these are our personal views and should not be seen as official within our chain of command.)
http://tinyurl.com/2atsmr
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A Picture is Worth...
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if this young fellow is all 'up in arms' about our "serious" Foreign Policy Community.
http://peaceaware.com/images/photo_war_children/boy_No_Arms.jpg
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Anon#Fuggit
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No not massive.
A few thousand here and there. And then the whole thing died. And if you're going to protest don't limit yourselves to liberal college campuses.--Anon
What. In. The. Hell. Are. You. Talking about? The 'demonstrations' were massive and they took place in the streets of the cities of America. Not to mention all over the world. The 'demonstrations' weren't "limited" to "liberal college campuses". What the hell decade are you living in?
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Shooter
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"A few nights ago, for example, we witnessed the death of one American soldier and the critical wounding of two others when a lethal armor-piercing explosive was detonated between an Iraqi Army checkpoint and a police one. Local Iraqis readily testified to American investigators that Iraqi police and Army officers escorted the triggermen and helped plant the bomb. These civilians highlighted their own predicament: had they informed the Americans of the bomb before the incident, the Iraqi Army, the police or the local Shiite militia would have killed their families.
http://tinyurl.com/34faou
Shooter, I want you to go away for as long as it takes for you to read and to comprehend what the soldiers who wrote the NYTimes op-ed are trying to inform you of. That is your assignment. Please shut the hell up until you have completed your assignment.
Thank you,
Kitt
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Anon#Fuggit
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn and Kitt
That was 4 years ago, roughly the same amount of time of the American Civil War, from beginning to end. There were fewer than a half dozen so called rallies of any substantial size at all. Most of them were local affairs. Sorry guys, but you phoned it in. Don't blame the press for not covering something you haven't done in the last 45-50 months.
--Anonymous
Whatever validity there might or might not be in your post above, how does it change the fact that you had completely and grossly misstated the size and the extent of the demonstrations that took place? You either lied or you are completely ignorant of what took place pre-Iraq invasion. Which is it?
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Shooter's F Grade
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That reflects the current situation on the ground, which is independent of all the reasons we shouldn't be there in the first place. It's a concept many seem to find incomprehensible.
But I'm sure you'll come up with something irrelevant to toss in there.
-- shooter242
You injected credence into what you posted. No one else would or will. How on the invisible cloud beings green earth could what is going on on the ground be "independent of all the reasons we shouldn't be there in the first place"? The actions on the ground are a reaction to us being there. The actions speak loudly. The actions say we aren't wanted. But obviously the 70 to 80% of the Iraqis telling us to get the hell out is not enough for you?
Please, go back and read the article again. And do us and yourself a favor? Don't fall back on the talking point bullshit about Beauchamp and Ismail, or whatever their names are. And get a handle on your fantasy love affair with the cartoon cheerleader, Michelle Malkin
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Anon#fuggit
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Kitt - Please. If there had been any sustained effort at all the outcome would have been different. Paul is right, it WAS theater. Replete with giant puppets and every crackpot fringe group you could huddle on stage if only to blur your own message.
--Anonymous
Correct me if I'm misreading you. You are now not only complaining that there haven't been ongoing demonstrations, but you are complaining that the demonstrators who held demonstrations did them wrong? And you are here to tell us how things should be done? And your name is - brazenly - Anon#Fuggit? But even so you, you Mr or Mrs or Mizz Anon#fuggit, are the brave soul bringing forth the answers to all of our problems?