What a pleasant surprise that Garrison Keillor would actually SAY "impeach Bush". I hope his words carry weight with his many fans across the country.

Recently I saw a headline that said "Iraq war is costing

$100,000 per minute." I realized that if you multiply that by 60 you get $6 million an hour, and if you multiply that by 24 you get $144 million a DAY!.

Imagine what we could do with $144 million a day. Imagine the schools, the health care, the environmental cleanup, the programs for world PEACE and world HEALTH that we could provide with that money. But we are spending it on war machines and new and bigger ways to kill people. Are we insane? All current indications show that we are.

Another way of looking that the numbers is this: The new Pentagon budget is $439.3 Billion dollars a year. Divide that by 12 and you get $36.6 Billion a month; divide that by 31 and you get $1.18 BILLION a DAY!

So we are spending $144 million a day just to kill people in Iraq, and we are spending $1.18 BILLION a day to pay the Pentagon and various industrial companies to manufacture more machines so we can kill more people.

Is this what American citizens want?

Is this what you had in mind when you voted?

If it isn't, I suggest we all should take up the cry; "Impeach Bush".

For over 50 years now we have been subscribing to the insanity of war and killing in the name of "peace". If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then we can truly be described as being terminally insane. We are in the process of destroying this country and our planet. Does anybody care? Does anybody even begin to understand the dire peril we are in?

If you care, write your Senators and Representatives and ask them to impeach Bush. It's a start.

I've read some of the other letters (couldnt quite get through all 17 pages) and discovered that the author of this spiteful piece is someone everyone but me seems to be acquainted with. If this is a sample of his/her writing I'm merely glad I haven't been exposed before.

As for the comments on Jon Stewart, I have to echo several others who wondered what show the reviewer watched. I watched most (not all) of the Oscars, something I haven't done for 4 or 5 years, precicely because Jon Stewart was hosting. I wasn't disappointed. I thought his opening monologue, or whatever one calls it, was hilarious and dead on. I also agree that the cowboy film clips and the other humorous film bits were well done. Cintra take your pseudo snobbery back to your cellar - please.

Dixie

I have read Kennedy and Manjoo's original articles and their responses to each other as well as Salon's response to them and to us. I'm still disappointed in Salon. I didn't read all 32 pages of letters that Manjoo's original article generated, but I read enough to note that a lot of your readers (count me one) were angry and disappointed that once again you had Manjoo write the article debunking Kennedy.

I have read Manjoo's articles in the past and it seems clear to me (though apparently not to Salon) that he does indeed have an agenda. Salon may think his agenda is to parse the research of others in a judicious way; those of us who have read much on this subject (including Conyers report and articles by Bob Fitrakis etc) think that either he has not done the research necessary to respond to Kennedy or he has an agenda that includes not wanting to even consider the possibility that the nefarious goings on in Ohio and elsewhere (New Mexico to name one) actually had an effect on the election results.

No where in Manjoo's writing do I find any sense of outrage over what we know occurred. Long lines, fraudulent counting in at least one county, purging of voters and so on. Conyers held hearings in Ohio and documented something like 50,000 inidividual complaints and said that had he been able to stay for a week he would have had as many more. What I find incomprehensible about Manjoo and others like him is that we know that around the country machines didn't count the vote properly in hundreds of documented cases. Machines mysteriously gave Bush votes, machines registered Bush's name when people punched the Kerry button, and so on. You don't have to be a statistician to know that when all the so-called "glitches" favor one person over the other that something smells to high heaven. In Manjoo's article I saw absolutely NO mention of the problems people had with voting machines (other than that there weren't enough in some areas). One has to wonder why he failed to mention something so obvious to anyone who knows anything at all about the 2004 election.

Next time (I'm begging you) have someone other than Manjoo write your article on how 2006 was stolen.

Dixie