Letters to the Editor
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People took it easy on me - Some responses, fun and serious
Well, I guess my baiting was a little to straight forward. The naming calling to me wasn't too bad. The short list for people lacking time is: fucking stupid, fascist, dumbfuck, traitor, and ninnie. But, the best was probably the person who said I should wear Depends. Nice touch but I'm always a bit disappointed when liberals use insults that may offend a minority groups such as people with medical problems related to their bowels.
Some more serious comments:
-There was a bit of discussion of how great a President FDR was. Back to my original point of people making judgments with inherently imperfect information, FDR is great example. FDR made a judgment that the Japanese would not attack the US. He was wrong. They did attack killing a couple of thousand Amercians in one morning and then leading to the deaths of many, many thousands. For years, conspiracy theorists thought that FDR knew the attack was coming and did nothing. I don't think that. FDR just made the wrong judgment. Ultimately, we dropped fire bombs and atomic weapons on civilians to end that war. Might a more aggressive policy in 1940 have deterred the Japanese? Tough call at the time when you don't really know what the other guy is planning. Waiting to find out may mean finding out by having them execute their plan. Then of course, the Prez gets blamed for doing nothing.
-I like the fact that the people most opposed to the war are wanting to hold the Democrats in Congress accountable. I too suspect that some Democratic votes for the war were far more cynical than Bush's reason for the war. To be fair and balanced (nudge, nudge), as a conservative, I get sick of hearing Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility while spending money on special interest earmarks and clearly worthless givernment programs. Even Ron Paul does earmarks.
-David Schlaefer's point about if Bush knew their were no weapons, why did he set himself up to look foolish? He can't both be an evil genius and a complete idiot.
-Another question I wish someone would answer: Why did Blair join the war as wholeheartedly as Bush. Blair is not exactly a Halliburton, gimme-oil type.
-I'm glad a few folks are bringing up that Bill Clinton has to be part of this "conspiracy". Avoiding the technicalities of who "owned" the UN sanctions, Clinton definitely signed the 1998 law that called for regime change in Iraq. Why would he do that unless he believed that Saddam was a threat?
Anyway, maybe I'll get a few more insults out of this.