Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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Joel_Grant makes an excellent point...
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]which accentuates the dishonesty of the article. Wanting to pull out of iraq is not an anti-war position. The Iraq war was a bait-and-switch which stole resources and attention away from the fight that was justified( we were attacked - we responded) and diverted to one that is morally reprehensible. (we weren't attacked - we weren't going to be attacked - we attacked anyway.)
That's why most Americans agree that we should get out. Because by the simple rules of morality we were taught as children, what we are doing in Iraq is wrong.
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The 9/11 Truth Movement.....
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By refusing to discuss the 9/11 Truth movement, 1st-tier bloggers open themselves to valid charges of hypocrisy and collaboration with the institutions they claim to be monitoring.
Sorry, but the operative word here is truth. There is a more than adequate supply of real-live dastardly evil villians in the world. There's no need to invent a bunch more out of whole cloth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor
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There are 10 types of people in the world
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Forgive the expletive....
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But from the inevitable criticism -- amplified through the megaphone of the mainstream media -- from the administration and the right, who will frame the action as "not supporting the troops".
Which is exactly WHY its important to continuously remind folks why they're full of shit!
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Let me Get This Straight....
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did D-rocks just prove Glenn's point by providing a rock-solid example of the dishonesty Glenn was describing?
Yeah - I thought so too.....
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I Forget....
[Read the article: The corpse of the Victory Caucus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the grace of God, we will be delivered from the Evil of liberals and terrorists. Forgive them Lord, the liberals know not what they do.
Is it the terrorists who want to kill us in our beds and the liberals who want to destroy our way of life or the other way around? I can never get it straight....
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If anyone doubts the dishonesty of "Surge" backers...
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman's dishonesty: The Iraq tragedy in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On need only remember that the whole surge concept was introduced after "Stay the Course" had already been repudiated, first by the general election and then by the Iraq Study Group Report. The whole thing has a bit of a "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" feel to it in that we're supposed to ignore the blatant self-serving motives of those pushing the proposal and pretend that it actually represents new thinking.
in a pigs eye......
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Unprecidented.....
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman's dishonesty: The Iraq tragedy in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can't win hearts and minds with bullets and bayonets.
Unless of course you're trying to win them over to the other side.
I too am having trouble understanding the rationale behind our current actions. I don't think even Henry Kissinger ever descended to this level of calculated evil seasoned with bull-headed stupidity.
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Synchronicity
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman's dishonesty: The Iraq tragedy in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While SomeNYGuy was busy calling out someone's anti-semetic foolishness, afterthought was direction me to Juan Cole where I found this link:
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070225/26006_Jewish_Americans_Most_Strongly_Oppose_Iraq_War.htm
Jewish Americans are more strongly opposed to the Iraq war than any other major religious group in the United States, a new Gallup Poll found.
IOW the gentleman from Connecticut remains in a class by himself.
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Not to add validity
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman's dishonesty: The Iraq tragedy in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to one of the more ridiculous RW arguments but I can't help but notice that Joe Lieberman raises much more ire among left-leaners than other war-cheerleading idiots do. Why? because he self-identifies as a Democrat and by cheerleading the war and (worse) dissing the people who don't cheer with him, he fits the mold of a traitor.
While people who accuse Democrats of being anti-military or disrespectful to the troops are being dishonest jerks, just remember that extra surge of venom that the gentleman from Connecticut inspires and you can begin to understand the forces at work on the other side.
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Re: You Liberals
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman's dishonesty: The Iraq tragedy in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After all 4 years is only 8 freidmans, and you've been called and raised a friedman so just shut up like a good soldier......
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Gradual improvment....
[Read the article: Blogger criticisms and the national media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like the way you thread the needle between those who think that blogs are taking over the world vs those who think that we're being led by a cabal of evil geniuses who will never be swayed by mere public opinion. Humanity is slowly improving and what's currently taking place in information-space is certainly a positive sign.
The actual agent of change isn't just the blogs though but through the letter to the editor that the blogs inspire. Which makes this a good place to remind everyone to be polite.
I was thinking this weekend about the difference between anti-war protest during the Viet nam era and what's happening now. (I came across an article about the Chicago seven trial which got me thinking.) The main difference I see, is that today we're using the channels of communication that are actually designed for the purpose of effecting change. Street theater during the sixties was all well and good but it made it easy to dismiss protesters as fringe characters (Sound familiar?)
What's happening today, with our actually participating in the political process, is that try as they might, they CAN'T write us off. And that scares them to death!
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The second easiest way out....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The easiest way out of that dilemma is to fall back even harder than they do now on "he said/she said" journalism, giving equal weight to both sides and ignoring the yawning chasm between ideology and fact.
is to actually determine the truth and then report it. In case of a tie, the actual truth on the ground wins. That's why our current situation can't last forever. After all its easy to forget just how effed up things were in 2003. At some point, its no longer possible to ignore the elephant in the room.
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Perhaps there is a journalist somewhere who can figure out the meaning of that difference and write an article about it.
[Read the article: A hallmark of idiocy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're clearly allowing the optimism of your previous post to cloud your thinking......
This can actually function as a test case. Will the storyline be allowed to stand, or will someone call BS?
Stay tuned......