Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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Alby
[Read the article: Did David Broder "prop up" the Bush presidency?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't say Hollywood invented bad cops. It merely made sure that image will be repeated forever so that future cultural historians will think cops were no more than armed gangs. Maybe they will be right.
I agree that the long way is best---it is in fact the ONLY way, because the entire country has to change, not just the elites.
The two lost touch with one another long ago. We just didn't notice or care that much. That was my point.
As for a short way---yes, that would mean revolution. Let's hope the long way and the short way don't turn out to be the same.
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Daleyrocks
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is workin' it hard these days.
And yet, it's hardly workin'.
Keep workin' it, DR! Someday you'll sniff out a nugget of pure gold, and all those months of rooting around in the collective alimentary canal of Our Leader's administration will have paid off.
Until then, you're just another desperate, drooling, sick puppy.
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Odious DR
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Very poor question dodging, DR. Your masters would be embarrassed. The trick is to make the dodging invisible. But we all saw it.
No, an estimation of the allowable cost of victory is not at all like a timetable for withdrawal. No more than your face likely resembles my buttocks.
Unless, of course, you are admitting that any sane allowable cost level has already been reached and it is indeed time to get out. Talk to us, DR. Get it off your chest.
By the way, that's not ad hominem. That's called an example. I admit it was rude, but I enjoyed it.
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"Unserious"
[Read the article: Why is Brit Hume treated like a real journalist and news anchor?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another point to address is that old calumny "unserious." If an opposition party can't demand that the president consult with it before starting a war, then the only meaning left for "serious" is "dead."
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What a bunch of hooey
[Read the article: Paul Campos' response to Glenn Reynolds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, if Uncle Sam can bomb a village where there's a wedding taking place and kill a dozen foreign children on a paid tip from a rival tribe, then I can steal a child from the playground, take her into the woods, and slit her throat. And if I can do that, then we can drop nukes on Iran's nuclear labs, universities, campuses, suburbs, and any other place there might be a child who might grow into a nuclear scientist who doesn't work for an American energy company.
Get real, people. It's the law! This is no time for pussyfooting.
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Why a disastrous defeat in the Middle East will be good for Bush and the GOP
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, the vast majority of Americans wants to see peace and democracy in Iraq and Iran. Cheney said so. The voters are merely distracted and disheartened by the far left antiwar activists right now. But they will return to the GOP in droves when the US pulls out/is ejected and millions of Iraqis die in the aftermath and the defeatism of the Dems is exposed for what it is---support for the terrorists. Cheney's dire prediction will then come true---we will then have an America-hating enemy in the Middle East. And the US will vote deeply red that year.
What part of "stay-the-course" don't you lefties understand? If you liberals had been running WW2, the US would have given up at Guadalcanal, and the Normandy invasion would have been called off for bad weather.
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Heh
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I bagged me one. ;)
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Roger Morris on Rumsfeld
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's still pretty amazing how closely the official hard line resembles a parody of logic. I still struggle with this, which is why I experiment with imitating the wingnuts' thought process.
I strongly recommend reading Roger Morris's not-so-secret history of Rumsfeld's career:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=165669
It suggests that the neocons have not so much hijacked the GOP (as I used to think until it became the "moderate consensus") as partnered with them. Rumsfeld hooked up with them to get back into power, but he's an unreconstructed paleoconservative reactionary who made millions, if not billions, off Aspartame and FDA corruption. And all along, he wanted to be president.
Now, in what world view would someone who barely dodged a criminal investigation still hope to be president? Well, either that of someone who is confident of his party's control of the government and media, or one who takes arrogance to a level where it is indistinguishable from insanity.
Or both.
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9/11
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chris, are there not enough conspiracy blogs out there to support your fix? Yes, the 9/11 report was a whitewash, and Bush stonewalled the investigators. We need transparency in government.
OK, so what? And when has Glenn said otherwise?
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Paul
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're a lefty AND a geek. Go back to Seattle!
On another note, bagged me another one.
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Steven Boucher
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So nobody told you the war is over and you're carrying out an "occupation"? Don't you guys have briefings or something?
We all want you to "win" too. But what do you do when there's nothing left to win? When all you're doing is supervising genocide?
Sorry, Steven, but I've read your post a few times and I see no evidence that you have given any thought to what you're doing in Iraq or why you're there. I'd be interested in hearing more.
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WTF100
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the lecture, wtf. I need to be told my goals and beliefs on a daily basis.
Where'd you get THIS from?
What the hard left wants, and even the NYT rejects, is the rise of foreign alliances centered around oil supplies that will squeeze the life out of the US economy, and, as a result, put the brakes on globalization and ultimately the spread of capitalism and liberal democratic values.
Was this in some appendix to the Protocols of the Elders or The Turner Diaries that I missed? Or maybe Conservapedia?
If you actually believed in your own ideology, you wouldn't need to make up so many sickly, scary straw men. Why don't you tell us what YOU want, so we can have a dialogue.
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And another thing
[Read the article: The "antiwar left" takes over America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]DR, "you" guys control 2 branches of the federal government and the third is long neutralized. Why is it all "morons" and "assholes" from you?
Uncomfortable sharing power? I thought so.