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• Thursday, February 16, 2006 02:18 AM

  Damn it.

  Fine. Abu Ghraib photos on the front page, years after the fact, may not help the cause of peace, but in the name of free information and better understanding, I support that. I would say it's a bold decision, even...but I no longer believe it is, for you.

  Why, why, why didn't you run the Danish cartoons on your front page? Were they really more likely to incite violence than THIS? Why are you hell-bent on proving the Right's point that the American Left is basically anti-American? I can't believe I just typed the words "anti-American." But it really seems the only body politic you guys are willing to attack is the American one, and many of us, your Left-leaning and loyal readers, are becoming more and more uncomfortable with this stance as European embassies burn over essentially harmless cartoons.

  I'm not saying the "war on terror" is anything but bullsh*t concocted to enslave us. I'm not conceding that GWB had a point when he said "fight them over there." All I've seen this country do for the last six years is pour gasoline on the fire. But hey -- how about a little teeny bit of OBJECTIVITY for Chrissake? How bout some balance? You guys are becoming as bad as the Right when it comes to self-important spin. Hey - the international prison state needs to be exposed. But would it hurt you to say at the same time that there's some serious overreaction going on in the middle east right now? That these cartoons weren't racist, weren't really that bad at all? What the &*#( is wrong with you people!!? Media are all the same these days. Just hammering on one side of the story doesn't constitute educational or enlightening debate.

  Not renewing my subscription either.

  —joshstrike Read joshstrike's other letters
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