Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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@PM
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could WE actually organize a complete boycott of all consumer products for a day, a week or a year? Should WE, millions strong, surround the Whitehouse and demand the criminals be delivered to us? I just don't know anymore. There is very little appetite amongst the population for anything but the simulation and its comforts.
The days of street brawling and Pinkerton's thugs, not to mention plain old marching in protest, are over. None of that is allowed. Anyone who tries it will be jailed. Period.
But we do know that profit margins are razor thin. Boycotts could hurt.
But of what? Gasoline? ELectronics? Cheap Chinese trinkets?
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Is that a fact, LWM?
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]crazy old clown
Confirm or deny! and don't give us one of your Wikipedia dodges. We've got you surrounded.
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Wouldn't that be the goal?
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]wreckless driving
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From scooter's own link
[Read the article: How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Earth's temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted.
A new computer model developed by German researchers, reported in the journal Nature, suggests the cooling will counter greenhouse warming.
However, temperatures will again be rising quickly by about 2020, they say.
Other climate scientists have welcomed the research, saying it may help societies plan better for the future.
See how modelled temperatures may develop
The key to the new prediction is the natural cycle of ocean temperatures called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is closely related to the warm currents that bring heat from the tropics to the shores of Europe.
The cause of the oscillation is not well understood, but the cycle appears to come round about every 60 to 70 years.
Imagine the payoff of knowing with some certainty what the next 10 years hold in terms of temperature and precipitation
Professor Michael Schlesinger
It may partly explain why temperatures rose in the early years of the last century before beginning to cool in the 1940s.
"One message from our study is that in the short term, you can see changes in the global mean temperature that you might not expect given the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)," said Noel Keenlyside from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University.
His group's projection diverges from other computer models only for about 15-20 years; after that, the curves come back together and temperatures rise.
Is Scooter lazy or illiterate? You decide.
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LWM
[Read the article: How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How many casualties per month, say in Korea, on average?
Since the cessation of hostilities? How many casualties per year?
In Germany?
American or native/civilian?
Don't forget rapes, Scoot!
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Jim White
[Read the article: How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even funnier, the first I heard of that was when the French started speculating about it. Maybe the French will come back in fashion among the neocons.
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Is this the correct quote?
[Read the article: How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Senator Dodd and I will continue to work together against immunity for the phone companies and for Bush and Cheney.
Seems like a typo, but I don't know what Reid was trying to say.
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Forever missing the point
[Read the article: John McCain's Vietnam-based view of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We lost the war -- not because we were outfought, but because we were out Psyoped," he wrote. He urged a radically new approach to psychological operations in future wars -- taking aim at not just foreign adversaries but domestic audiences, too. He called his approach "MindWar" -- using network TV and radio to "strengthen our national will to victory."
If propaganda is an extension of war, then what difference does it make whether the VC whupped us by war or by propaganda? Either way, we got our asses handed to us by a bunch of rice farmers.
Even if there was a "will gap," we still had less will than a bunch of rice farmers.
Should we now expect to see the Army issue field manuals on how to be more willful than a bunch of rice farmers? Will this be the Great Leap into the 21st Century that will finally make us safe from everything?
I know what Chapter 1 will be called: Ignorance Is Strength. That chapter is already written.
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Scoot's war plan
[Read the article: John McCain's Vietnam-based view of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course he won't be back, but I can't resist a parting shot.
Do it well or don't do it at all. And certainly we don't have the political will to do it well. While the "backstabbers" will chafe at the characterization, it remains that their efforts have the same effect. Bring home all the troops and pay off the debt.
(1) Invade a peaceful country
(2) Lose
(3) Bring the troops home! Yay! Victory!
(4) Proceed to next target
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Question
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone happen to know who the name of the "military analyst" who was on CNN on Day 1 or 2 of the invasion and who said, "Hey diddle diddle, piggie up the middle"?
(He was referring to the American drive up from Kuwait toward Baghdad, and he was obviously drunk, literally with champagne glass in hand if I recall correctly.)
I'm just wondering whether he was one of our Pentagon pen pals, and whether he would be termed a "vocal critic" or the war or a "supporter." Was he in the "program" or not?
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Perhaps
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or maybe he was one of scooter's "anti-Pentagon commenters," trying to give Generals, Retired, Inc. a bad name.
Is that how the rice farmers beat us last time?
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Speaking of pig farmers
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just had an epiphany.
Since (1) the greatest challenge our nation faces is that of finding the will to exterminate our enemies, and (2) the lesson of Vietnam is that the single surest way of achieving the necessary iron will and discipline is to be fighting on home ground in defense of your own land,
We must invade ourselves next.
Only then can we avoid being stabbed in the back and be assured of victory!
First, kill all the journalists.
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Sorry, but
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What the hell is that supposed to mean?
The last point is a conservative/libertarian one, devoid of partisanship, I hope.
Is that like hoping you're at least a CLEAN pig rolling in shit?
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@LWM
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that one deserves a good "Heh."