Letters to the Editor
Bill Owen
Published Letters: 508 Editor's Choice: 6
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This Changes Everything
[Read the article: Killing "Bubba" from the skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Throughout history war has come at a cost in blood, flesh, and bone.
No longer.
Only one thing is holding bush back and that is the cost in American lives.
How many articles have I read, how many politicians have I heard, who only mention "dead Americans" - as though they are the only dead that matter. It is a rare article in the West that mentions the Iraqi dead. They don't mention them because they literally don't matter.
How many Americans know the number of Vietnamese war dead? How many know that it was AT LEAST 3 MILLION people, and as many as 7 MILLION? http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=5096
Given the rapid advances in robot technology like the Predator, and it's more capable cousin, the Raptor, as well as semi-autonomous - soon to be autonomous, ground vehicles, like the Talon; America is well on its way being able to fight war remotely with zero risk to American lives. And that is not a good thing - unless you are American.
When that happens, most opposition to war in America will cease, because no one who matters will die.
I call it the end of the world.
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This Changes Everything - correction
[Read the article: Killing "Bubba" from the skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry I meant to "Reaper"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQ-9_Reaper
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Many Worlds
[Read the article: Story Minute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Carol is a big quantum physics fan, this strip is a wonderful explication of the Copenhagen Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_worlds
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And it's it not as "clean" as you think
[Read the article: Killing "Bubba" from the skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Retrieved from the memory hole...
Seems like the assassination of Mr. Zarqawi was not quite as clean as the surgical strike in the story.
A Predator, or should I say predator, was supposed to "take him out" but failed. But they did kill him with two 500lb bombs, oh, and two men, two women and a five year old girl.
Why surround the house with Marines and RISK AMERICAN LIFE NEEDLESSLY when you can just kill em all from the sky? Surgically!
Zarqawi, as all know, was not the only one killed when two 500-pound bombs were dropped on the safe house. Two other men were killed there, two women were also, and though the military spokesman at first denied it (read lied about it), so was a small child who is now said to have been five or six years old. There have been some Iraqi reports that one of the women and the child, a girl, were Zarqawi’s wife and daughter. There have been other reports that they may have been former tenants or something. Who knows who they were at this point? All we can know with relative certainty now is that there were two women and a small girl, as well as Zarqawi, and two other men, one of whom was his spiritual adviser, whom we tracked to the house.
Whether the third man was an Al Qaeda operative, and whether the two women were operatives or bystanders (regardless of whether one was Zarqawi’s wife), are unknown to the American public. One thing we can be certain of, though, is that the five or six year old child was not an Al Qaeda operative. She, at least, was beyond dispute an innocent.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/velvel/velvel9.html
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Election 2000 Bush vs Gore
[Read the article: America closes the book on intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In many ways the contest was stupid versus smart.
Stupid won.
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I am constantly astounded by...
[Read the article: America closes the book on intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How many Americans cannot pronounce Iraq or Iran. Hint, the initial vowel does not rhyme with buy.
If you are going to invade a country you might at least learn to pronounce its name first.
I heard a Senator (whose name I did not catch) interviewed a while back, talking about the conflict between the Sunni and the Shia. He said they had been "fighting for 4000 years". Really?
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Congratulations Canada on Getting Electric Lights in your Parliament!
[Read the article: America closes the book on intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo
From a show on CBC called "Talking to Americans". It is not scripted.
Note to class. Canada is America's largest trading partner. More goods come from Canada in one day then come from Japan in a year.
A gold star for anyone who can tell us how many times the United States has attacked Canada. Two gold stars for anyone who can tell us what year Canadians lit the White House on fire.
Americans are not stupid; the bell curve is universal. What they are is ill-educated. And just a tad aggressive.
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@wmoser you hoser
[Read the article: Killing "Bubba" from the skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a country that does not target civilians deliberately you sure as hell kill a lot of them.
http://web.mit.edu/humancostiraq/reports.html
I hope you are writing this shit from a foxhole in Iraq or are you a keyboard warrior?
One million people is a lot of mistakes.
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@moser
[Read the article: Killing "Bubba" from the skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1 million people killed by Al Qaida! And all that with AK's and suicide belts. There must be a LOT of Al Qaida in Iraq in your world pal. You tell me then. How many people have been killed by Americans? Or better yet, how many have been killed as a result of the invasion and occupation? Please remember, not one of these people was "combatant", enemy or otherwise prior to 2003 and Al Qaida was not in Iraq.
30,000 as the Dear Leader said some time ago? 30,000, such a small number compared to the 3000 killed in the towers. 10 innocent Iraqi lives for 1 innocent American lives, not a bad kill ratio. Never mind that Iraq, and most certainly the Iraqi civilians, had nothing to do with 9/11.
30,000 dead is nothing really, just a stack of bodies 4.73 miles high. 1 million dead would reach well into space, but that number has been discredited - somewhere in your fact free dreams of empire.
Quiet glee? I take no pleasure in the death of ANYONE. I leave that to you and yours. Setbacks? Bring em on! Anything that will stop America from adventures like Iraq is a good thing, and even most Americans agree with that now.
How that hunt for WMD going? You are writing from Iraq right? Gotta fight them there and all that... they might come and take all the incubators.