Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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Again, thanks for the care
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to collect the documentation behind your assertions. Come September we'll need it against the inevitable "I told you so's" from the clueless cheerleaders.
I couldn't help but notice that surge has become a verb as in "we have been surging our forces during that time". Needless to say, there's a lot we could say about that but well leave that for Chris Matthews to explain.
In the meantime:
putting the comments of Gen. Petraeus into their proper perspective is imperative, as is treating them realistically, with the understanding that he has a history of making almost uniformly optimistic claims about Iraq, even when the reality in Iraq was anything but encouraging.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Gen. Petraeus selected to that position in the first place due to his reliabilty as a propogandist?
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nabalzbbfr will now follow up his last post
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the story of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves!
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Watch for the surprise ending!
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That's funny
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The CFR is the policy arm for the globalists who are the people that control the wealth of the world also called the Zionists.
I have a nice house and a decent nest egg and I'M not a Zionist. So I guess they don't control ALL the wealth.
When combatting people who think of the world in caricatures it's not helpful to depict the world in caricatures. The reality is bad enough.
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Nabelzzffrree is literally a fascist.
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here he is gleefully imagining the US as a military dictatorship:
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/14/tillman/permalink/dbf9f15d7d756160e4de78e8025efa4c.html
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the reason we have to wait till September
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is because its an even number of Freidman Units since March '03.
(we wouldn't want to leave any partial FU's laying around!)
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shooter again fails to notice
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that Glenn's post carefully documents the fact that: He has a clear track record as a straight-shooter and as someone who gets things done. is in fact a lie.
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The troll commanders must be starting their surge
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No...they're surging
It's important to get it right.
The troops aren't part of a surge. The troops are surging.
Doesn't that make them sound so much MORE effective.
Now repeat the phrase 20 times quickly until it rolls naturally off the toungue.
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Could it happen?
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could Mrs. Clinton (or whoever wins) decide that for her to 'lose' the 'war' would not be acceptable?
Of course it could. All she'd have to do is run to the likes of Joe Klein for advice.
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Someone got scooped alright
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it wasn't Glenn......
Jim Montague [Read Jim Montague's other letters]Permalink Thursday, July 19, 2007 08:37 AM
RealName[Read RealName's other letters]Permalink Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:03 AM
Better luck next time.....
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Escher would be proud
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After reading Pocoroba's post, I was suddenly reminded of Escher's Ascending and Descending
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Ascending_and_Descending.jpg
With this in mind, it's now easy to see how we can be making steady progress AND having the whole venture going to Hell in a Handbasket simultaneously. Only in my failed imagination are these two prospects mutually exclusive.
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anonymoose STILL thinks he lives in a military dictatorship
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure I've ever encountered anyone so thoroughly unAmerican since the fall of the USSR. Perhaps he should emigrate to Cuba, he'd feel more at home.
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Don't even bother
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]nabalzbbfr aka anonymoose doesn't have the first inkling about America and what it stands for. He's somehow has deluded himself into thinking that the citizenry should be subserviant to the military. He'd be at home in Cuba or perhaps Pakistan but his thinking is completely foreign to the United States Of America. I honestly think that given the chance, Dick Cheney himself would regard him as too creepy to be in the same room with for too long.
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just like Chavez
[Read the article: Bush's magical shield from criminal prosecution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Again, the question to ask is Where is the press!??
Todays top story at google:
Pakistan's Supreme court has reinstated its chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, four months after Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf suspended him.
It's a good thing our military swears fealty to the Constitution rather than the CIC but you would think that the fact that the USA is one now one step closer to being a military Dictatorship would garner more attention.
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Just as
[Read the article: Bush's 2001 condemnation of Russia's human rights abuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]familiarity with the New Testament is helpful when pointing out how the Religious Right has strayed from the path, familiarity with PaleoConservative thought is also important when pointing out how the NeoCon Right has also stayed from the path.
Our first priority should be to wrest the Constitution from the shredder, then having accomplished that, we can then entertain ourselves with economic theory. First things first.
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The most interesting quote:
[Read the article: Kit Bond and the credibility of war supporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This would give terrorists the resources of the petroleum-rich country to finance their operations, significantly increasing the threat of future attacks on the United States.
Apparently those who thought we waged the war in order to control the oil so that our friends could sell it to us were mistaken. We waged the war in order to prevent our enemies from being allowed to sell it to us.
We all know how dangerous it is to allow just ANYONE access to free markets.
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Glenn - you missed the most important part
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the Boomers -- those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation
Note how the qualifier automatically allows the rest of the article to be a pack of lies. He isn't talking about the REAL Baby Boomers. He's talking about the subset that fit into his caricature. Anything else said about them automatically becomes true, because he's already admitted up front that he's making the shit up.
See how easy that is?
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Doubethink
[Read the article: John Yoo -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My question is this:
Is John Yoo a practitioner of doublethink who is therefore capable of of holding two contradictory beliefs in his mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them or is he merely a dishonest hack? Hmmmm.......