Letters to the Editor
onepissedoffcracker
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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Sgt. Omar Mora
[Read the article: "The war as we saw it"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Omar Mora’s story ran on the first page (below the fold) of the City & State section of the Houston Chronicle this morning. He and his mother came here from Ecuador when he was two years old.
The obit made no mention of his contribution to the op-ed describing the madness of the war in Iraq.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5127764.html
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A ridiculous defense of a ridiculous proposal.
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can see the HRC wing of Salon has joined her in the faith-based community where you must no longer "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality."
Since I’m currently working to try and pay for a war here, I don’t have time to dissect this “article” and point out each of its faults. But, here is one example:
The author states that “Obama dismisses Clinton's proposal to suspend the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax as: 1) a political gimmick that will not deliver any significant relief to consumers…” he then notes “each of Obama's attack lines is either factually incorrect, or based on flawed logic” before going on to admit “let's face it: This is a tiny price cut.”
I’m not sure how this tiny price cut amounts to anything significant enough to rise to the level of being factually incorrect or based on flawed logic but apparently the author “believes” it does.
The most ridiculous aspect of this whole “debate” however, is that it is meaningless. As yet, HRC has not introduced the “Summer Tax Holiday Oil Company Windfall Profits Elect Me Act of 2008”. And, as she is still just a candidate for the primary, all this is just campaign trail blather. Could this weakly managed Democratic majority in Congress actually pass legislation that suspends the gas tax and assess a profits tax on Big Oil? No. If they could, would Bush sign it into law? No. Does this amount to more that just a ridiculous debate? Sadly, no. Staking out a position on an issue that doesn’t really exist strikes me as pandering.
If one refuses to acknowledge reality it cannot be. (I think Strauss said that)
Warmest regards,
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Minor correction needed
[Read the article: Conservatives see bias in McClellan coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Regarding the undoubted buffoon Douglas Feith, the article references a quote supposedly found in the Pentagon IG report. The link leads to a WaPo story that was later corrected. It states:
A Feb. 9 front-page article about the Pentagon inspector general's report regarding the office of former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith incorrectly attributed quotations to that report. References to Feith's office producing "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" and that the office "was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda" were from a report issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in Oct. 2004.
Any of a number of equally damaging quotes could replace the one cited.
I remain,