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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
berlet98
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"No wonder they hate us, I hate us!" So wrote "widget" in a previous letter.
That says it all, folks! Like the chicken and the egg, I wonder which came first with "widget"--and others who posted: the self-loathing for our country or the chagrin over GITMO?
It's become a sad state in our nation's affairs when terrorist suspects receive more empathy than American soldiers trying to do their jobs under extremely adverse conditions. No other letter writer mentioned the mental and verbal abuse or the feces and urine hurled at our people at GITMO by these terrorist prisoners whose treatment, including medical treatment, the freedom to perform their religious observances five times daily, and the three square meals they get daily, is in many cases far better than they're accustomed to. No one witnessed the resistance this obviously-recalcitrant prisoner put up.
I think Ms. Chodroff approached this story with the same mindset exemplified by "widget," that is with an antipathy toward the United States and its armed forces.
On Memorial Day weekend, when we honor those who fought and died for us, it's a shame SALON chose to feature this story rather than one extolling our troops.
May God bless and save America!
Racism works both ways.
Despite the absurd contention that Blacks can't be racists, the fact of the matter is that racism is widespread among Afican-Americans, as demonstrated by the huge majority of Blacks voting for Senator Obama. Voting for someone based on skin color is as clearly racist as voting against a candidate because of his race.
What we're seeing now is an effort to tar anyone who opposes Barack Hussein Obama's presidential bid as "racist," regardless of Obama's total lack of qualifications to hold that office.
The media has deemed him even more liberal than Senator Clinton so Obama is their pick and Clinton is fair game to be attacked on such issues as her latest stupid gaffe on Bobby Kennedy's assassination. Meanwhile, Obama's associations with admitted terrorist William Ayers and with America-hater Rev. Jeremiah Wright are downplayed as was his reference to campaigning in all 57 states.
SALON's readers seem to be largely left wing but I have some news for them anyway: Senator Obama will never be elected president, not because of racism but because he is totally unqualified and, worse, because of serious questions about his allegiance.
Magritte and Hudson apparently didn't read my letter so I'll post it again:
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"No wonder they hate us, I hate us!" So wrote "widget" in a previous letter.
That says it all, folks! Like the chicken and the egg, I wonder which came first with "widget"--and others who posted: the self-loathing for our country or the chagrin over GITMO?
It's become a sad state in our nation's affairs when terrorist suspects receive more empathy than American soldiers trying to do their jobs under extremely adverse conditions. No other letter writer mentioned the mental and verbal abuse or the feces and urine hurled at our people at GITMO by these terrorist prisoners whose treatment, including medical treatment, the freedom to perform their religious observances five times daily, and the three square meals they get daily, is in many cases far better than they're accustomed to. No one witnessed the resistance this obviously-recalcitrant prisoner put up.
I think Ms. Chodroff approached this story with the same mindset exemplified by "widget," that is with an antipathy toward the United States and its armed forces.
On Memorial Day weekend, when we honor those who fought and died for us, it's a shame SALON chose to feature this story rather than one extolling our troops.
May God bless and save America.
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Neither of those who commented on the above letter addressed the issues I raised concerning what our troops endure from these terrorist suspects. Nor did they attempt to refute the prisoners' "medical treatment, the freedom to perform their religious observances five times daily, and the three square meals they get daily."
If they don't loathe the USA as "widget" does, they obviously don't love it much either. Otherwise why wouldn't they even comment on SALON's inappropriate feature article being published on Memorial Day weekend?
As for citing the ACLU, that reference outs the writer for what he is, namely, a leftist of the same ilk as Chodroff.
Thank you, Ms. Walsh, for my chuckle of the day!!
You bemoaned the media double standard with regard to Hillary and Osama/Obama, which really tickled my fancy!
With 90% of the media admitted proud liberals, the media has LONG had a double standard. In my day we applied that term to male-female relationships where the guy can be as promiscuous as he wants and the girl was considered a slut if she did the same.
Well, JOANIE, Hillary is being pilloried by the media just for being insufficiently slutty (liberal)so welcome to reality!
For just a few Obamamanians in the media--with Chris Matthews leading the pack, please see http://www.townhall.com/video/TheFivewithAmandaCarpenter/1450_052708five
I completely empathize with Mr. Leonard.
However, he seems to sluff off the causes of this debacle, namely America's Democratic/liberal/left wing/environmentalist nuts!
We could have been totally, 100%, energy self-sufficient by now had not those groups blocked drilling in ANWR, off-shore, on-shore drilling, and blocked clean coal and oil shale development as well as the construction of oil refineries--for 30+ years!
It's not too late but it will take many years to rectify the damage done to our country. That rectification will never happen until liberals can't fill their gas tanks and they freeze in their homes and offices.
Please see my website, http:genelalor.com/.
Thank you and may God bless and save America!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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