Letters to the Editor
Gordon Wagner
Published Letters: 665 Editor's Choice: 16
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That game is soooo two weeks ago
[Read the article: Friday game: A cat with a bow and arrow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No wonder no one answers their phone on Friday afternoons...
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Israel assumes that other countries lie like they do
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Regarding their interest in nuclear power. POWER, not WEAPONS.
Israel has a nuclear WEAPONS arsenal. Israel denies the existence of its nuclear WEAPONS program.
Iran exports oil. Iran uses oil to generate electricity. Iran wants nuclear POWER to generate electricity in order to have more oil to export.
Iran is 100% within its rights to pursue nuclear POWER.
Not all countries have a heritage of duplicity and lies like Israel enjoys.
Joe Lieberman ought to be and serve in the Knesset. His allegiance to a foreign country is stark. Israel. Is. A. Foreign. Country.
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War crime isn't terrorism?
[Read the article: Lieberman: I could "definitely" support a Republican in 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe Lieberman (Senator from Tel Aviv) is advocating a war crime. Why is he in ANY public office? Worse, why are all but one GOP candidates eagerly barking about using WMDs on a country which hasn't done jack shit to us?
Am I on drugs? Is this reality? It is WRONG to advocate invading another country. And don't even try and introduce that mistranslated "Map" nonsense. Read the raw translation. MSM propaganda.
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Which African Crisis it this?
[Read the article: Ending "the world's hottest war"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've lost count over the decades. Is this one worse or not as bad as the fifty preceding it?
Not to sound too much like P.J. O'Rourke, but I just Googled "stable African regime" and came up with zero hits.
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Abandoned cities
[Read the article: I love L.A.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I spent a lot of time in LA. Vestiges of a mythic, tragic collapse sometime in the 40s remain, primarily on smoggy November days. There's something there, but it's like hunting for a ghost. Embrace it, take it for what it is. Life among the ruins. Until the Dodgers move or disband, it'll be a going concern. The City of the Mother of the Queen of the Angels. Somebody's quinceñera is this coming Sabado. It'll be a big deal. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Why does the US have a "Holocaust Museum"?
[Read the article: Ending "the world's hottest war"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And why is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum funded @ the Cabinet level? Why was it built before either a Native American museum or a WWII Veteran's Memorial?
You can drink the Kool-Aid and still marvel at those facts.
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"He will set voting rights back fifty years"
[Read the article: The grilling of von Spakovsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's good to know that America is in no danger of running out of fascists. Where does Bush43 keep finding these guys? HELL, NO I don't want von Sakovsky anywhere NEAR the FEC!
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You can't DO this to me! I'm a NEOCON!!!
[Read the article: Let the pardon countdown begin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tragic. Not.
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Why bother?
[Read the article: More warnings about a U.S.-Iran war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Protest is essentially outlawed, violent protest will be considered "terrorism" by the goon squads (notice your local PD is militarized by this time?)... why bother? Israel? Such nice people! You cannot criticize Israel at all, ever. Of course Israel does not wield undue influence over the US Congress... why bother? Have a drink. Enjoy the ride.
If George says Iran is evil, then they must be evil. Nuke 'em. It's not terrorism or genocide when *we* do it. After all, GOD is on our side. Everyone knows this.
Have a drink. Make it a strong one. Me, I'll be cleaning my guns and waiting for martial law.
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Iran is within its rights to pursue nuclear power
[Read the article: The NYT on the administration's "debate" over whether to attack Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Israel, OTOH, has a nuclear ARSENAL. Does anyone see the difference, or am I just acid-damaged?
Iran exports oil. Iran wants nuclear POWER to generate electricity so it has more oil to export. Israel doesn't have oil to export. Israel does have a secret nuclear WEAPONS program.
Is it OK for other nations to have a "debate" about whether or not to bomb the nuclear programs in the US or in Israel? No? Why not?
That all the GOP candidates aside from Ron Paul would be jumping up and down like primates with erections trying to out-do one another regarding attacking Iran strikes me as more than a bit worrisome. This country has gone insane.
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Nothing doing
[Read the article: Hillary's hard-won experience]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No sale. No way. She's as duplicitous and as slippery as they come. If it weren't for Guilani she'd be the most despicable candidate running. If it weren't for Cheney she'd be the most hated person in America. DO. NOT. WANT.
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Whom are we kidding?
[Read the article: Where have all the e-mails gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only way to REALLY eradicate an e-trail is to disassemble the hard drives and smash the platters with a hammer. And does it even come into play that would be illegal? Rove is guilty as hell on this one, initially by using outside ISPs to route e-mail, secondly by lying and destroying evidence. Was he not photographed leaving the ISP's office after this latest pile of shit hit the fan?
Can Karl Rove not be executed as treasonous scum based on existing circumstantially evidence?!
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The US is guilty of torture
[Read the article: Abu Ghraib investigator: I was pushed out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chalk this up with other deep sources of national shame, slavery, using nuclear weapons on civilian targets, firebombing civilian targets during WWII, Vietnam... et cetera, et cetera... yet we someone see ourselves as shining paragons of goodness. Jesus.
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Vin Scully
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the best sportscasters I've ever heard. He can even make golf sound interesting.
He's the last, best vestige of the glory days of the Dodgers. God bless him.
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Legalize everything
[Read the article: What Ted Stevens, Bolivian cocaine and Halliburton have in common]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Black markets exist to overprice commodities. If people want to use cocaine hydrochloride, let them. They will anyway. Legalize it. Case closed. Imagine the money that would be saved. Ah, but that's not the point, is it?
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Is this news?
[Read the article: The CIA's torture teachers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The School of the Americas was replaced/renamed by/as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in January of 2001. How many innocent Central Americans died at the hands of people trained there?
This isn't news. It's standard operating procedure with fresh victims.
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So if he's not part of the executive...
[Read the article: How Cheney keeps his secrets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then he's part of the legislative? Can the Senate vote to toss him out of office? And into a cell @ Gitmo for a lifetime of torture -- er, I meant "debriefing"??
Seriously. He is surrendering his tenuous hold on "executive privilege," is he not? So let's see those visitor logs when Big Oil dictated energy policy.
ENOUGH of this bastard, can we get the Dems a spine transplant so that these corrupt and evil devils can be scraped off the shoe of the US already!??!?!
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Israel would appreciate a Jewish President
[Read the article: Bloomberg's ambitions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why, yes I think it can be very easily done...