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Published Letters: 171 Editor's Choice: 38
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Bush attacks critics
[Read the article: The president attacks his critics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Congress was willing to impeach a president because he lied about screwing Monica, surely we can impeach the current idiot for being a war criminal.
Doesn't an illegal war, thousands of innocent civilians and 2,000 plus US troops dead meet some threshold for getting Bush out of office?
What about being one of the most corrupt administrations in our history?
What about outing a CIA agent because her husband disagreed with tarting up the intelligence about WMD?
How about torturing people? Or extraordinary rendition to have others torture for us? Or setting up secret gulags around the world?
Or being a bunch of incompetent boobs?
Or, just today, allowing the use of a quasi-chemical wepaon, white phosphorous, against the insurgents and civilians in Iraq? Can't the UN step in here and bring charges against our government?
I am asking the UN to help because the other parts of our government that are supposed to stop evil presidents (Congress, the media, the people) won't. The Founders must be spinning in their graves.
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Death to Place Kicking
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If kicking is eliminated in football, can we still call it football? Without kicking, the ball would be touched only by body parts other than the feet. "Pigskin"? "Ovalball"?
How about:
Make the coach think about trying that field goal. If a field goal is missed, the other team takes possession at the 50 yard line. If a field goal is blocked, the blocking team gets one point and the ball at the kicking team's 40 yard line.
More kicking opportunities, but no ball holders. PATs would be drop kicks. Field goals would be drop kicks for 3 points or punts for 2 points. Imagine it's fourth and 2 at the defenders' 45 yard line. Will they punt, fake it and try for the first down, or punt for a 2-point field goal? Kickoffs are punts.
Like the CFL, no fair catch. Forces kickers to always be alert.
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Streakers
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]David Niven had the best commentary about a streaker at the 1974 Oscars. As the naked gent (why is it always guys?) exited stage left, Niven quipped, "Well, that was bound to happen. The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping ... and showing his shortcomings."
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It's OK, I'm a Republican
[Read the article: The "very, very well" report, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]House Republicans are planning to attach a rider to the $91 billion funding bill for the Iraq war barring any foreign government from managing our ports.
If a Democrat proposed such a rider, the same Republicans would be screaming that the Dems weren't "supporting our troops." If a Democrat proposed banning governments from managing our ports just a year ago when Bush & Co. had all that political capital to spend, they would have been branded as racists and xenophobes.
While it may be heartening to see rubber-stamp House Republicans finally opposing the Bush administration about anything, their hypocrisy has reached ever more breathtaking levels.
Senate Republicans have caved on having hearings about Bush's illegal wiretapping activities. Will these same Republicans acquiesce so easier when a Democrat takes the oath of office on January 20, 2009? I hope it won't matter because Democrats will have control of both houses of Congress.
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How sad
[Read the article: The Abu Ghraib files]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It makes me so sad to see these photographs. I feel sorry for the prisoners enduring the humiliation. I don't know if any of these men were terrorists or had fought against US forces in Iraq. It doesn't matter. They are still human beings who don't desrve to be treated this way.
I feel shame for the soldiers and my country that such things were allowed or encouraged. I only hope these photographs may someday be used in a judicial proceeding against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales. The USA is supposed to stand for the rule of law, justice and honor. In just 5 years this administration has turned us into nothing better than your average third world tyranny.
Just as the German people were forced to visit the death camps after WW2, the American people should be forced to look at these photographs.
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Not a protector of the Constitution?
[Read the article: Maybe they need a marriage counselor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps both of these senators should read the oath they took the last time they were re-elected. They swore to "support and defend" the Constitution. A US senator swears the following oath:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
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Senate oath
[Read the article: Maybe they need a marriage counselor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's true, but this is how the oath is posted at www.senate.gov
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Oath
[Read the article: Maybe they need a marriage counselor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is true that George Washington added, "So help me God." But the Senate's website (www.senate.gov) includes those four words in the text of the oath.
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Voting Rights Act
[Read the article: The GOP agenda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't forget to add Florida to that list of states to be monitored. They still owe us for the 2000 debacle.