Letters to the Editor
djtoth
Published Letters: 219 Editor's Choice: 47
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War is Political, Joe
[Read the article: Obama on Iraq: Troops home by March 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love Joe Biden, but war is political. Bush and Cheney have been playing politics with the war for six years. It might be a good idea for democratics, however, not to try to get us out of the war by shooting themselves in the foot. Democrats need to stop running for President and deal with the war and pressing social problems first.
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Poetic Truth
[Read the article: The Pentagon's new math on U.S. injuries in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have to give credit to the Bush administration for both the depth and breadth of their lies. Their basic approach is to tell highly detailed lies about insignificant issues and vague lies about important issues. We only have to look at the plethora of lies in the Valerie Plame case or the weapons of mass destruction claim used as a basis for invading Iraq. The poet, William Butler Yeats, describes two kinds of liars. The first lies to others so that he may convince himself; the second lies to himself so that he may convince others. Bush and Cheney fall into the former category, Rice to the latter, and Rove falls into Dante's 9th circle ahead of Judas Iscariot. The truth about Iraq, to paraphrase William Blake, lies at the bottom of 3087 graves.
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Tons of Money
[Read the article: Flown to Baghdad: 363 tons of cash]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Notice how the Bush Administration has sent tons of money to New Orleans, education, medicare, healthcare, the environment, education, energy, etc. He did send a few billion to New Orleans, but in true Bush fashion, the people who need it can't get it because of bureaucratic red tape. Bush is waiting for the private sector to deal with these situations, and is doing what the private sector does best, export pallets of money to foreign countries.
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Those Damned Sutherlands
[Read the article: Anti-escalation resolutions? "24" is the real problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First old man Sutherland shows the troops that its perfectly all right to torture your colleagues in Mash, and now Kiefer, and who names the their son Kiefer but a real masochist, shows the troops its all right to torture the audience in 24. Where will it all end? Of course, 24 may be as close to the real thing that men like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have ever gotten. Certainly, Alberto Gonzales has learned a great deal about wiretapping from the show, and Bush took one of his most famous lines from Jack Bauer: "I don't have time to explain right now; you'll just have to trust me." Even though 24 is one of the most unrealistic shows on television, I do see where it could be confusing to some, especially at Fox News. I mean when has Bush ever worked a 24 hour day or even a 24 week? Better yet, when has Bush ever succeeded at anything? The only things George Bush and Jack Bauer have in common is that they were both addicted to drugs, and their daughters never seem to listen to them.
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A Difficult Choice
[Read the article: Here we go again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a difficult choice, but I pick quote number one because it has a good beat, and its easy to dance to.
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Let's See What Hillary Clinton's Postion Was and Is
[Read the article: Hillary, Iraq and the nonadmission admission]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I invite Salon to go back and re-examine Clinton's position on the war. It seems to me that she supported the war early on and continued to support it for quite some time before she adopted her current position. Did she change her position as a result of the November elections, or did she change earlier? If she wants our support, she should provide a full accounting of her record on the war rather than trying to avoid addressing the issue. To win in 2008, Democrats need to be responsibile for their actions.
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What Question Should the Court Ask Before Calling Cheney?
[Read the article: Cheney on the stand, or when a "Washington lawyer" is something more]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the Vice President subject to the same laws as every other American citizen?
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Mad Cow
[Read the article: The Libby trial, or "anticlimax" defined]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Libby does not receive a pardon, and what are the chances of that not happening, he can always claim that his lawyers has Mad Cow Disease.
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More Good News
[Read the article: Need more recruits for Iraq? Take more criminals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The percentage of criminals in the military is less than the pecentage of criminals in the Bush Administration. This may seem paradoxical, but I am much more positive about the War in Iraq than I am about the Bush administration. I am confident we will lose the war, but I am less confident that we will lose Bush and Cheney or ever recover from them.
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Here's Something Else We Know
[Read the article: Those Iranian weapons, or follow the bouncing ball]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush lied about why we went to war with Iraq, the Congress and the press did nothing, and the American people supported him. Bush has mismanaged the war in Iraq, mishandled billions of dollars, destablized the entire world, killed thousands of people, tortured detainees, and spied illegally on innocent American citizens. The Congress has done nothing, the press complains, and the American people do not support him. What strategy does Bush have left? Blame Iran and claim that we need to support the troops in the field while he moves us closer to a war that Cheney has been planning all along. And why not? The Congress will not stop him. They won't hold him or anyone else in the administration accountable. But, don't worry, Bush will find a way to show how a war with Iran will make the troops safer.
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The I Stands for Iago
[Read the article: Libby's cynical defense]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the end of Othello when Iago is confronted with his crimes, he remains silent. For Shakespeare, this is the ultimate evil. Here it is important to consider the "evil" that Libby has done by not speaking. In protecting both the Vice President and the President, he is condoning their illegal actions and allowing them to continue commiting their crimes against the American people.