Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 180 Editor's Choice: 18
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.....it's the motion.
[Read the article: Do you have to have balls to have balls?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My first thought on seeing Jim Webb's stirring speech was thank god the Democrats had the sense to choose him for the job. And my mental image of a Democratic caucus deciding on Webb for rebuttal had Nancy Pelosi firmly and wisely in the center. She looks good when he looks good; we look good when they look good. She's knows how to deploy her best weapons; we can rejoice in hearing them loud and strong.
Having "alpha male" dems right out front with the rest of the insider/outsider/old/new/compassionate/common sense party is smart and true.....which is exactly what was so stirring about Webb's turn: he was putting the past disastrous six years in a well-made nutshell, and he was telling the truth.
I don't think there's a single person in the media who can appreciate how extraordinary it is to those outside the beltway to hear someone, of either sex, hit the nail on the head, and without equivocation or an eye on the pundits. The pundits suck - every single last one of them. And that nail - Bush - has been in full view for some years now, causing us mountains of damage. Hillary dances around, Nancy doesn't. Al Gore sounds genuinely pissed off, Kerry doesn't. It's not just the skirt, or the slacks.....
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Get the money, y'all
[Read the article: Bush makes nice, but Dick is still a killer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cheney isn't talking about anything other than the oil - it isn't about people, isn't about purse strings, isn't about defeat, isn't about consequences, and isn't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever about the country - ours or anyone else's.
It's about the reason he is the biggest culprit in this foul piece of history - getting the oil and controlling it. And it's not "us" getting it, as in assuring the flow of manageable energy to any or all - it's him and his sickfuck business cronies getting it. Stay the course, indeed.
It's also about not pissing off the Saudis. But that's all it's about. He is the biggest and ugliest tool in the box.
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Whoa Bromell
[Read the article: Scooter's tragic innocence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody who can't tell the difference between Cheney and Wolfowitz and a Zen master seriously needs to go back to school. And I might suggest the public school system this time. The bullies are a lot simpler - they're not there to indoctrinate you, but to pummel you. Maybe next time Libby can fight them rather than join them.
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au contraire mon ami
[Read the article: "CP/ -- his wife works in that division"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I care. It's pretty clear that our Vice President sponsored a concerted effort to smear a CIA operative in order to quiet a truth-telling critic of a bogus war. Smells like news to me.
What's not obvious is the backdoor staging of his (your choice) corrupt or foolish minions. Mr. Grieve's posts are a model of clear, pointed commentary on the, granted, minutiae of the trial. But I'm riveted, because it reveals so much about the mood and method of this bizarre adminstration. And I can't wait till the ever accomodating Ms. Miller is here. Hotcha.
And thanks to Mr. Grieve for his continuously smart and fair column. It's the best.
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adolescent fury
[Read the article: The readers strike back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The letters section of Salon is indeed a kind of strange, teenage monster. I can't wait to see how it will grow up.
The only modification I would really like to see is an automatic spell check. Mine doesn't work in letters mode, and my pithiness is always undone by after-posting mistakes. Danm.
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dokey
[Read the article: "CP/ -- his wife works in that division"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do all those things about congressman and money and talking and all that stuff. And I like to see institutionalized lying unravel. Gives a nice texture to space.
The trial will get more interesting before it gets less so. I think we're up to 3% right now. Excellent!
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Libby's undoing
[Read the article: How Libby became Cheney's pawn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is indeed the best description I've read of the events at the core of the Libby trial, and, tangentially, the most egregious abuse of power this country has seen in my lifetime. The little knot at the edge of the Iraq snarl - Libby's perjury - is moving, and elsewhere Tim Grieve is doing a great job of following its slow-motion unraveling. Here Mr. Blumenthal has written another essential executive summary of the facts and the implications. Thanks to Salon for the forum, and to Mr. Blumenthal for laser-like focus on reality.
When you follow the threads, Cheney emerges not just as top dog, but the vicious leader of a pack of hounds with individual hungers - the neocons who angle for chief sword-rattler on the (perhaps) Israeli front; the president-fool addicted to magical-thinking and one-upping his father; and the Halliburton ghouls, after the oil after all. All the agendas nestle nicely into the corporate rush to war, and help to push it along.
A trillion dollars. A hundred thousand killed, more or less. A major American city left to rot because we're looking and spending elsewhere, because Cheney and his puppets cried wolf.
The neocons were not elected, so their glory-grab is merely immoral and/or criminal.
But for our highest elected duo to sell the public down the river is the soul of traitordom. The question I want to see Wolf Blitzer ask Cheney is not whether he approves of his daughter, but how on earth she can still approve of him.
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Fascinating
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney's dirty secrets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks Salon - makes me want to read this courageous man's book.
It all sounds so low-grade John Le Carre, and I kept thinking of the movie someone will make of this. Casting choices abound, but everytime he mentioned the "White House" presumably driving the bogus agenda, all I could see was a giant close-up of big fat snarling lips. Guess who.