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Kudos to Joan Walsh on the real meaning of the Plame scandal. But please, Joan, it is parochial and heartless to repeatedly cite the 2000 Americans who've died in Iraq, while remaining profoundly mute on the number of Iraqis -- perhaps more than fifty times the number of American casualities -- who've also lost their lives as a result of our Bush-Cheney cabal. But even that is not enough honesty. For that you must include the shameful and exorbitant number of innocent lives, on all sides of this conflict, forever and cruelly shattered as a result of this pointless war.
Bravo on your article. Half the country has known for a long time that we were duped into this war. What's amazing to me is how long it's taking for the other half to wake up. How many other disasters do we have to endure before everyone sees that this administration has done nothing but weaken us -- diplomatically, economically and morally? Why are we fighting cabals abroad when we've got one of our own at home? It's time for those of us who truly have moral values to stand up and take back the title of "patriot." What Bush, Cheney and their cronies have done is so un-American it makes my skin crawl.
--Angela Wilson Gyetvan
P.S. Deriding Wilson as an out-of-work nobody whose wife got him the gig? Geez Louise, what does that make Mike Brown? And how do you explain that to the folks in New Orleans?
