Letters to the Editor
rbsalonlo
Published Letters: 37
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The "capitulation fringe"
[Read the article: The American media's fringe ideological view of Pelosi's trip]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are those democrats who continue to refuse to challenge Bush, the press that refuses to fairly and accurately investigate and report the news, and pundits that refuse to engage reality and speak the truth. Each is capitulating on our democratic promise.
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"Don't greet the terrorists (apparently
[Read the article: The right-wing brain in action]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]all Sunni men between the ages of 15-35) with silence, you racists, greet them with bombs. Obliterate them. It's the fair and impartial thing to do."
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Sam Seder
[Read the article: A light bulb goes off on the Washington Post editorial page]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not getting enough blogosphere attention. Real sad to see him go.
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So Gaubatz found these all by his lonesome?
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cause surely, when they find something like this, only one person knows about it. Did he take photographs? Is there anyone who can vouch for where he was when he said he discovered them? Does he have any contemporaneous documents, or did he not even make a note of his very important finding? Who in the admin. did he tell about his findings?
Can we confront Bolton, Bush, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Cheney, Rice with this information and see what their reaction to it is?
Wow, another opportunity for real reporting and investigative journalism instead of mere bluster and punditry. Anyone of you right wingers want to take up the challenge? I thought not.
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George Bush. Dick Cheney. Karl (Cancer on Democracy) Rove.
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The three best reasons in the world not to have a king.
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Paul and Realname are both right.
[Read the article: The NYT on the administration's "debate" over whether to attack Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The US may have always had an attack on Iran as its goal of attacking Iraq. If not attack, to exert pressure on perceived rogue mideast states. The US can justify this by pointing to support of terrorism and intermeddling by these states in the affairs of other mideast states.
Iran is intermeddling in other mideast states' affairs. They can justify this by saying that the US influence is a threat to their existence and a reaction to perceived threats.
And both countries can continue down that road forever. But it's not a cold war, where people live in fear of the big bomb. It's a hot war, where people lose their lives and possession on a daily basis. And people are going to suffer. And the next century will be one of death, violence, destruction, diaspora, violence, the loss of liberty and the rule of law and chaos unless the two countries can be made to stop now.
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Consonant with your prior posts
[Read the article: Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]al-Qaida is just another, more concrete, word for "evil." Clearly so ascribed because we don't know exactly what we are fighting, much less what we are fighting for.
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Pravda?
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shall I start reading the NYT like we used to read Pravda in the old days? I think I shall.
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geez, Glenn
[Read the article: The Democrats' responsibility in the wake of Gonzales' resignation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you now exactly how this will work out. Recess appointment of Chertoff. Democrats cry foul, "look it what GW has done this time, worst administration ever, 2008 blah blah blah" but don't do anything real.
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re your update
[Read the article: The Democrats' responsibility in the wake of Gonzales' resignation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd like to see this agreement. It's exact words. Is it a binding contract? If not (or even if it is) why do you think GW will abide by it. The only reason he would is that GW thinks that a filibuster would hurt the dems.
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Yeah. Taser Ahmadinejad's ass.
[Read the article: Columbia to be punished for hosting the new Hitler enemy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tase him. Tase him. And here's a zap for you too, Glenn! Shut up and embrace the agenda!
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re your Clinton update.
[Read the article: David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're falling for rhetoric over substance again. I'm skeptical that Hillary is doing anything more than trying to appeal to the dem base with her "no vote for funding" rhetoric. When it comes to stating what her plan will be if and when she becomes president, she is totally evasive.
We've seen these symbolic votes over and over again. There are two ways Hillary can prove her dedication: Lead the senate now to defund. If she can't lead the senate, why should we think she can lead the country? Second, she can give us an explicit Iraq plan that she would follow if she becomes president.
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surprised by new read of Pod.
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The hysterizing of personal experience such that all members of a certain race/religion is castigated is the most noteworthy thing about the essay. Except perhaps a kind of honesty highly unusual for a neocon.
May I suggest a read? The Essential Neoconservative Reader. It contains Pod's piece as well as other early revelatory essays.
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Not criminal
[Read the article: Robert Kennedy speaks out against Retroactive Immunity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]only covers civil. This is not illegal. In fact, in California we just had a consumer law whose retroactivity was found to be lawful.
There is a preemption provision whose applicability to criminal conduct I'm not sure about. But, if not, seems local prosecutors could still pursue criminal charges.
Here's the proposed statute:
http://intelligence.senate.gov/071019/fisa.pdf
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It's the consistent complicity that is galling.
[Read the article: Democratic complicity in Bush's torture regimen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I personally believe this country will need nothing less than a full blown truth commission to get us over this dark stain on our history.
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My f #*&ing tax dollars
[Read the article: Democrats show Beltway "strength," avoid being depicted as weak]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]at work.
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Just to say I totally agree.
[Read the article: Will the Democratic presidential candidates adhere to their rhetoric?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Posted something like what you say at dkos. I will be following up with the email firedog provided.
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I don't agree, Glen.
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Clinton said is correct. 81% of blacks voted for Obama in SC primary, compared with 23% of whites. Sure, we would all like to pretend race played no factor, but it surely did.
But more disgusting is the way Obama courted the black religious vote in SC.
So Clinton was right. SC is an aberration, particularly if it is played as having any meaning nationally.
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Clearly, this was all carefully calibrated
[Read the article: Today]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to avoid public debate and a true filibuster. Clearly, it will be one of the amendments that only requires 50 votes.
The questions about Dodd are pertinent.
And, yes, we are still waiting for a backbone.
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This is procedural game playing
[Read the article: Exclusive capitulation report: House Democratic leadership circulates FISA bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]at its highest level. Who knows what will really happen?
Still, standing up to Bush directly and without all the kabuki would be much preferable in any instance, i.e., what benefit to the democrats gain by this volleyball approach?
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Yep
[Read the article: War cheerleaders ask: "Is Obama man enough to be president?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and McCain, when asked about his temper yesterday, said he wasn't running for a congeniality contest.
The obvious follow up was, after 8 years of being bellicose, couldn't the country use a little congeniality? Not asked, of course.