Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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Not just guns, but boots....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]we puff up our enemies so the disparity isn't so nakedly apparent, so we don't look like the bully. The numbers, unfortunately, don't bear it out. Who's got the most guns?
It's worse than you depict. When in comes to "the most guns" what we have is air power, missles and nukes. We've already proven that our stash of boots with rifles is much more limited. Which, as we've seen, means we can blow up anytyhing we want but are complete unable to control the political events that then take place in the rubble. That's why it's so frustrating when chest-thumping idiots come around here claiming that all we have to do is kill more people and everything will be wonderful.
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Now threatening to do the same is praised as "diplomacy"?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wrong
It's not "praised" as diplomacy. It's accurately described as a facet of diplomacy. You're allow the "feel-good" connotation we associate with the word to distort it's actual meaning.
By the way, no one's asserting that what were doing isn't wrong.
Only that what we call diplomacy usually involves both a carrot AND a stick.
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Big fat so what?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if Clinton were solely responsible for the public's lack of understanding, it wasn't his responsibilty to correct the record after 9-11. It wasn't his responsibity to capture or kill the people responsible for the attacks. It wasn't his responsibility to lead the nation with an appropriate response. He wasn't the one who systematically lied to the American people in order to justify shipping 180,000 ground troops to the wrong country.
As always "Clinton did it too" justifies nothing.
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By the way, can I presume we'll never hear "Bush did it too" from you in the future?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, quite safely. Trashing the Constitution, grabbing power not due the executive, launching wars of agression and padding the wallets of your cronies is wrong no matter who's doing it.
You'll never understand that I actually DO answer to a higher standard than partisan sniping. Just can't sink in.
You can also note that in addition to opposing the Clipper chip, I've never written a single word in defense of any Clinton military adventure.
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I prefer
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Then It's settled.....
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In honor of Pixie and Dixie.
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@bucky1
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those folks who challenge those in power sometimes seem to be a 'lefty' or a 'rightie' depending on who is in power at the time
Just so you know, shooter has a remarkably persistent blind spot which affects his political vision. He views the entire world as if it is football game. It affects his ability to detect that there are multiple points of view represented among people who nevertheless oppose BushCo's power grab and mindless militarism. It affects his ability to view the various possible situations emerging from Iraq as being anything but 'Victory' or 'Defeat'. It affects his ability to believe that there are people who are guided by principles rather than choosing up sides and defending the results, no matter what. It affects his ability to even acknowlege that people like you, who object strenously to BushCo from a position on the Right even exist. In short, he is hoplessly mired in binary thinking and recent history suggests that any information that doesn't fit through his us/them filter will either be squeezed beyond recognition or rejected outright.
Good luck!
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Funny how it works
[Read the article: Tucker, Jonah, Elizabeth and Jillian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that the same qualities that Jonah et al say they admire are the ones that make me think Cheney is utterly reprehensible?
Just a matter of taste I guess......
That or that brainwashing I got as a kid about Government of the People by the People For the People.
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Sigh....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]My question is whether there is any legal remedy that the people can exert, through the Constitution, that could return the balance of power, and force this anti-constitutional group out of office.
Like the old psychiatrist jokes. Things can change but they have to WANT to change. As long as people habitually fail to notice that there's anything wrong with our current state of affairs then no "legal remedies" are going to mean squat. So pointing out whats wrong within our punditocray and doing so with uncharacteristic snarkiness, is not only appropriate, it's downright vital!
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Unintentional hilarity
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is nothing so feared in DC than an honest man.
Which is of course why Cheney fears subpoenas like a vampire fears the sun.
I know that the whole "Government of the people by the people for the people" confuses some folks. Something about that "people" part I guess.....
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I hesitate to refer to it as "refreshing"
[Read the article: Our rotted press corps, a division of "Camp Victory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When foreign journalist actually get the chance to expose the man behind the curtain. But as your post yesterday points out, some people just automatically trust certain sources of information oblivious to the fact that
A: Those sources fully control access to the information provided and
B: Those sources have a powerful motivation to lie.
I was wondering when and how you were going to get to that particular Joe Kline article, because I knew, going in that it was a perfect example of propaganda operations in action.
I truly feel sorry for the people who have to operate in a theater where the only way to tell friend from foe is when they open fire on your position. But that being the situation is EXACTLY why its important to be honest about what is happening. The American people are being deliberately blinded no less thoroughly now than they were during the run-up to the war when there was a chemical-weapon missle battery over every ridge. Only now, we know who all should know better which makes the blatant dishonest of the insider press all the more unforgivable.
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on the side of the American-backed Iraqi government.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can they be on our side? Their MOSLEMS! Everybody knows that means their out to kill us all! Right? right? I read it on the internets!
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on the side of the American-backed Iraqi government.
[Read the article: Our rotted press corps, a division of "Camp Victory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can they be on our side? Their MOSLEMS! Everybody knows that means their out to kill us all! Right? right? I read it on the internets!
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I know there called "terror"ists for a reason...
[Read the article: Our rotted press corps, a division of "Camp Victory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But has anyone else noticed that its always the most strident chest-thumpers who are the quickest to soil their drawers whenever anything bad happens....anywhere?