Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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Just for yucks....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I entered "Lincoln quote" into google news:
'Wash Times' Fails to Correct Fabricated Abraham Lincoln Quote ...
Editor & Publisher - 1 hour ago
He reported: "Supporters of President Bush and the war in Iraq often quote Abraham Lincoln as saying members of Congress who act to damage military morale ...
Honest, It Wasn't Abe's Comment Washington Post
Why use your own words Think Progress
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Lincoln Quote Fabricated
Accuracy In Media, DC - Feb 14, 2007
Frank Gaffney, a well respected expert on foreign policy used a fabricated Lincoln quote in a recent column. Snow blasts the media for "overhyping" the idea ...
It would appear that the falsity of the quote is going to gain enough traction to prove embarasing to the gentleman from Alaska.....
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This is too rich...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Washington post nails him. Of course I don't see a h/t - Glenn in the article but the truth is definitely getting some good play....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501525.html
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Nonbinding......
[Read the article: David Broder's "seriousness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It almost seems that there's a conspiracy affot to prevent the Congress from taking meaningful action.
Already Murtha is laying out a plan that will actually allow Congress to take control of the course of the war(s) and already he's being pushed back against on several fronts not the least of which is the toothless "centrist" front that Broder represents.
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my comment re: the Michelle Malkin article by Howie.
[Read the article: David Broder's "seriousness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that the more thoroughly unpopular that hate drenched war cheerleading gets among average Americans, the more ink it gets in the WaPo. I certainly wish you folks would get a clue.
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Broder's credibility
[Read the article: David Broder's "seriousness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was going to cite the last sentence of todays article as a reason to doubt Mr Broder's credibility but then he wrote this:
David S. Broder: Some in Congress hear that drumbeat clearly. I do not. I think Secretary Gates and the President recognize the risks in a war with Iran and will try to avoid it.
Someone save that thought. We'll check back in a year and see how he did....
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The tight little circle
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the number of war cheerleaders continues to dwindle, I can't escape the image of them drawing themselves into a tight little circle, each pointing a finger outward and yelling "traitor!"
Of course, once the traitors outnumber the loyalists, it is of course fitting to reverse the labels and point out that the traitors are the ones who are defying the clearly expressed will of the American people.
Perhaps they should be careful waving that thing around...they could hurt somebody!
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Now I know
[Read the article: Did David Broder "prop up" the Bush presidency?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]why they don't give Lexus accounts to just anybody. Those things are dangerous! While reading your quotes (Full disclosure: My short attention span didn't allow to read them all), I was reminded of Chris Matthews and his reaction to the codpiece moment on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Maybe Broder just flat-out LIKES Bush on a personal level and is hence unable to separate his personal feelings from those of a responsible journalist.
I see after all that USA Today has finally come out and admitted that contrary to their earlier view, GW is indeed the worst President in history.
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I asked one of the questions that didn't make the cut.
[Read the article: Did David Broder "prop up" the Bush presidency?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or someone is screening out all those icky challenging voices so Broder can continue to live in fantasy.
I confess that I posted a little late into the chat, but I very politely asked him if he actually believed the last sentence of his column which said, in effect, that no one could say at this point how Iraq is going to turn out.
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I must say
[Read the article: Did David Broder "prop up" the Bush presidency?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I found it odd that someone would consider NOT engaging with one of the wisest voices in the whole internets...(yes WT..that means you.) The fact remains that the tide is indeed slowly turning for the better and the last thing need at this stage is to do something stupid.
Of course that's merely my own .02 USD.
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I'm curious....
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How much effect the advent of television and movies has had on our (as a culture) willingness to engage in warfare. While people often credit TV (Hudley-Brinkley-Cronkite) for helping to end the VietNam war by delivering the reality of the carnage to our living rooms, at the same time, we are subject to an endless series of fictional scenarios in which, with the sacrifice of sencondary and tertiary players in the game, the heroes ALWAYS win in the end.
That would certainly help explain the chickenhawk mentality. The problem isn't that they haven't experienced actual combat and warfare. The problem is that they've experienced an idealized and unrealistic version instead. That's why they keep on insisting that we clap louder. They actually believe that that's the key to victory. It also helps explain all this claptrap about "giving comfort to the enemy". They actually beleive that cheerleading helps us win.
Scary......
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The new neocon mantra......
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Past performance may not be indicative of future results.
I simply can't beleive the current farce has been able to play out as lond as it has.
Good luck with that surge, joe. We'll check back in another freidman to see how it went.
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Without bothering to explain why...
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll nevertheless point out that Libya was seeking rapporoachment with the US for years and that therefore the timing of the breakthrough was ours to control. That it happened to feed a convenient storyline of capitulation in the face of American awesome-ivity in Iraq is just an amazing coincidence.
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Textbook projection
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He has such tunnel vision on cutting and running that he fails to see how his arguments don't hold up to scrutiny.
lessee...
who to trust, who to trust...?
Daleyrocks or Gen. Odom?
hmmm.....
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Have you ever noticed
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How the same people who invoke Hitler and Chamberland almost never discuss Reagan and the Soviets. Especially the part where we helped them get bogged down in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan thus accelerating the end of their empire.
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A quick review of Right wing reaction..
[Read the article: Why is Brit Hume treated like a real journalist and news anchor?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]reveals what I like to refer to as a "Reality Problem"
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_21264695.shtml
While conservatives believe that US soldiers willing to fight and die for the rest of us have a higher calling than most of us, Democrats believe they are both stupid and completely expendable. With their actions, Democrats tell us over and over again that they have no use for the US military.
http://newsbusters.org/node/10906
Bravo, Brit. Nice to see someone in the media not bowing down to this despicable caricature of a grossly-corrupt and has-been legislator.