Letters to the Editor
Fraud Guy
Published Letters: 337
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Ineffactual Golden Boy
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]12 of 20 Muslims believe Arabs did not carry out 9/11
--per poll 28%, or 6 in 20 (error 1)
1 of 20 Muslims will affix their name and address to a statement to a statement saying they favor Al-Qaeda
--no name or address was requested by pollers (error 2)
4 of 20 Muslims in America will refuse to answer whether or not they favor Al-Qaeda, or claim they don't known
--and your point is? What if they are truly don't know (forced choice, error 3)(I mean, the AG can repeatedly state that he didn't know or recall what was happening on his watch, so I am sure ordinary citizens can, also).
These are Golden Boy's interpretation errors for this poll. He refuses to accept that he is misinterpreting the poll, and refuses to think about what his misinterpretations mean. Irrational, perhaps, but it certainly exposes the intellectual weakness of his claims.
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Svensker
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree, I like to reverse bombastic rhetorical statements against those who utter them. Especially like this case, when it's like bullfighting a pug.
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Ineffactual GB part II
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) From the poll (p.91), the numbers were 40% Yes Arabs, 28% No Arabs, 32% No answer/Don't know who performed 9/11. Thus, 60% state Arabs didn't do it. How could I not see this; I must have been blind not to assume that no answer = no Arab involvement?
2) The GB assumption is that everyone who stated that they supported Al-Qaeda gave valid personal info to get the payment (since many of those were under 25, I feel that at least some of the 7 very favorable answers gave false info/answers--those college kids).
3) The GB claim that the reason 20% did not answer a question is open to interpretation is refuted by the further statement that "claimed not to know what the question meant" or was "to refuse to provide an opinion". Hmm, they were either being willfully obstructionist or willfully obstructionist; decisions, decisions.... Or maybe they had no opinion? Nah, all good Americans will obviously state that they do not favor Al-Qaeda or any of its goals at all, immediately and without hesitation; thus 25% of all Muslims support Al-Qaeda (as GB claimed much earlier in the previous post:
All told, this adds up to about a quarter of Muslims in America refusing to condemn al Qaeda (about 575,000 Muslims), with about 115,000 of them actually holding favorable views about an organization publically seeking to kill millions of Americans.
That must be the only interpretation. Any deviation from it must be overcome.
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Defactual GB
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fraud Guy, I addressed each of your concerns.
No. You didn't.
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Civilians
[Read the article: The Islamic enemy within]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is not the American public who seek to violently spread their religion across the globe, although you may differ.
The stated goal (or at least one of them, it changes depending on political needs) of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq was to "spread democracy" in the Middle East. So is it Islam that has caused the deaths of tens to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians after the American invasion and occupation of their country? So is it Islam that has caused the displacement of millions of Iraqi citizens in that same conflict?
I abhor the means used by the terrorists to achieve their goals, but I also understand that they are typical of the tactics used in asymmetrical warfare. I also understand that as long as we seek to impose our will on peoples who do not want it, they will fight back, by whatever means they can. If someone invaded America with tanks and guns and overwhelming firepower, I would hope we would also fight back with whatever we could (i.e. Independence Day and other us vs. the aliens movies, or Red Dawn).
There are many Muslims who do not condone, and who do not participate in the worst behaviors justified in the name of their religion. Are you going to enable them through peace, or allow them to drift into continued violence by attacking them as well?
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What do the troops want?
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First off, while each & every soldiers death is a tragedy, it would be wildly inaccurate to assume, as many liberals do, that those actively serving support either withdrawl or the Democrats.
DanJoaquinOz
Actually, 72% think the US should leave within a year, and that was three months ago:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075
The poll, conducted in conjunction with Le Moyne College’s Center for Peace and Global Studies, showed that 29% of the respondents, serving in various branches of the armed forces, said the U.S. should leave Iraq “immediately,” while another 22% said they should leave in the next six months. Another 21% said troops should be out between six and 12 months, while 23% said they should stay “as long as they are needed.”
This part is also scary:
The wide-ranging poll also shows that 58% of those serving in country say the U.S. mission in Iraq is clear in their minds,[...]. While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks,” 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.”
I guess they do want us to pull them out of the fire. And I think they need better news sources as to why they are there.
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Damn, missed that
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My quote was troop sentiments back in 2006, not 2007. 72% wanted to be home by now.
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Mr. Pride
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please read Glenn's previous post, which has a link to the actual poll.
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The feelings of the troops
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]15 months ago, 23% of the troops in Iraq wanted us to stay until the job was done, like Ramadi. 72% of the troops on the ground wanted us to be out of Iraq by now. Ramadi, I think that we are not the ones you need to convince to keep you there.