Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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I can tell you're not exactly a deep thinker
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps not, but I do stand my ground.
And if you check my history, you'll find that I stand rather in the middle of the pack here at GG. I agree that name-calling and ignoring the fact that most of the electorate is politicly uninvolved and susceptible to first impressions is counterproductive. But your mode of thinking is exactly what caused Congress to cave on the war-funding bill. And its moved the political center of the country so far to the right as to be unrecognizable. The mission of liberals should be twofold. One is of course to win elections but the other is to educate people on why the elections deserve to be won.
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I'm back...what did I miss?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not a damn thing it would appear.
I'm with NYGuy. I think he's an adolescent RWA acting out against his Deadhead parents.
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I was trying to figure out
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]when being a complete dickhead was ever considered a winning political strategy but then I remembered Giuliani, so I guess it IS possible.
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Wouldn't you know....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tag-team idiots.
G'night.
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A link for all......
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]press release: new IETF WG: Drunk Driving on the Internet,/b>
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg17503.html
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Here's the opne I was actually seeking
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=DrunkDrivingOnInfoHiway
Introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy, it's designed to
prohibit anyone from using a public computer network (Information Highway) while the computer user is intoxicated. I know how silly this sounds, but Congress apparently thinks that being drunk on a highway is bad no matter what kind of highway
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Sort of a reccurring theme...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]we can just keep repeating over and over that we are "killing Al Qaeda"
I've described several times how we can cause people to magically become terrorists by the act of targeting them. The fact that by any moral calculus you care to apply, such an act renders us as the "evil" ones, totally flies over the head of war advocates. Did I say "war advocates"? I'm sorry I meant death merchants. My bad....
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Think of how much less of a problem
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Iran would be if we still had a credible threat of military action. As mentioned before, we are exceeding capable of creating a lot of explosions but without available ground troops or a track record that would suggest that we're capable of doing anything BUT blow stuff up, we're pretty much a paper tiger and we only have BushCo to thank for it. Of course the calls for yet more destruction arise directly out of our powerlessness.
It would be really sad it it weren't so damn dangerous.
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Too funny...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You forgot the part where the people whose house you busted into had firebombed your house the day before, killing 3000 or so people
That's because you were in the wrong house. Those people were three blocks away, sitting in the basement plotting their next attack unopposed.
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saying things = genocide
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It makes perfect sense.
Joe Lieberman just said that we shouldn't rule out military action on Iranian soil. By that same logic, Iran is now justified in targeting Connecticut for destruction. It's just tit-for-tat after all.
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It's funny how we've seen two
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]classic warmongering strategies used back to back here.
The first is of course the ridiculous conflating the perpetrators of 9-11 and of anybody else who happens to live on the same 1/3rd of the planet or have their religion in common. (Notice that it's one or the other. Many Iraqis are not the same religion and a significant minority are Christian)
The second is the discounting of the value of life. Shooter is more careful than most but his message is clear. Iranian lives are less valuable than Israeli ones. See...even the Iranians agree.
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If these idiots don't blow up this world in the next year and a half.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I often wonder if its just an accident that inhabitable planets are relatively tiny and separate by multiple light years. On those occasions I think we've been presented a puzzle. Can a species that has evolved to expand through conflict, survive the point when the whole planet is thus occupied? Or is it our fate to destroy the whole thing, lest someone else occupy it?
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Can't let that stand...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter says civilians were not bombed. That is of course a lie. What he meant was that civilians were not targeted.
The US has always been remarkably cavalier about NOT attempting to quantify or acknowlege civillian deaths caused by the bombing. Notice that this has been conveniently brushed under the rug.
http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/20/03
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@Ralphz Unanswered Question
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Raid on the Iraqi Reactor
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Osirak.html
google is your friend.....
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Breaking news...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter comes out in favor of UN Weapons Inspection Teams
War with Iraq narrowly averted!
If not then the ultimate goal of being SURE Saddam didn't have the bomb was successful.
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Sociopaths
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's my personal surmise that sociopathy among favored leadership is widely tolerated on the right for reasons that Altemeyer has explained
Its always difficult to create hard and fast categories for things that vary in a continuim. I'm confident that the ability to feel empathy is among those things. The difference between someone who ends up in a high government position rather than prison is usually a matter of degree and chance.
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The crux of it..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]you personally willing to risk Israel and all it's inhabitants against the proposition that Iran doesn't really mean what it says about genocide?
Since when do "We Personally" have anything to say about it?
Israel is responsible for its own defense and acts according to its interests. It's also rather good at it. Unlike America, it can tell when a military mission has exceeded its mandate and become unproductive.
As always shooter's arguments always rest on two unstated assumptions. The first is that the US is reponsible for the security of the rest of the world and if that happens to involve random killing....oh well. The second is that any potential US action could actually solve the stated problem. Here's where our failure to think things through is even more tragic. Sometime in life there are simply no good options. In such cases, the least destructive course is usually the best.
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Has anyone else noticed....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That after yesterday's thread, shooter actually comes off seeming reasonable in comparison.