Letters to the Editor
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Threats
It is not the deliberate faked quotation that is disgusting; it is the implied threat that it carries. I thought that threatening government officials was a crime. The implied threat of the quote is a criminal act, and should be treated as such.
I am so sick of the ugly strategies the right wing uses to manipulate citizens of this country with fear. Our government is being run by a WASP mafia with Dick Cheney as the don.
No matter how many lies this administration tells to raise their dictatorial power over this nation the fact remains that they are behaving like criminals who have been allowed to escape punishment for their crimes, and each crime they get away with emboldens them to try more criminal acts.
We don't have respected leaders in America. We have a group of cheap thugs who have gotten away with too much. Their arrogance is a thoroughly lowlife presence that hangs over our nation like a heavy black shroud.
If Americans have any respect for themselves, right or left, they will throw off these animals before they destroy our nation with their greed driven agenda. This is not America. I cannot define exactly what it is, but it is supported by ignorant stooges who don't realize that their acts of phony patriotism reveal that America's spine is broken, and it was broken by the petty creeps who are turning our country into a terrorist nation.
The longer we allow criminals to run our nation the weaker our nation becomes. It has to stop now. There isn't the time to wait to see what further damage these moronic sadists want to visit upon our country. Wake-up people. The America you were taught about as children has nearly been destroyed by the deceitful pigs occupying the executive branch and their lackeys in the media.
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it's so right to be wrong
darn you GG!
now i have to stay up way late to hear you reduce the gaff to blubbering idiocy.
get em tiger!
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RicK
Interesting that the Washington Times' erroneous quote should originally come from Insight Magazine. The two publications are owned by Rev Moon's Unification Church.
I guess when you're the Messiah, little things like truth don't matter much.
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Dreggas Said...
I have heard the republicans quote Patreus' response to Joe Lieberman and even Virgil Goode claiming that "In God We Trust" will be replaced with "In Muhammad we trust" if this resolution passes.
I always assume that the various internet "trolls" who play on liberal web sites get their particular brand of lame talking point from Rush/O'Reilly/Hannity/Coulter, et al. But, it appears that they're getting it straight from the Republicans in Congress.
Congress, meanwhile, appears to be the body who is taking their talking points from right wing radio.
Frightening - members of Congress who are as uninformed and unable to make a cogent or original point as your everyday internet troll.
This is, indeed, a very dark period in American history.
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Virgil
" Virgil Goode claiming that "In God We Trust" will be replaced with "In Muhammad we trust" if this resolution passes."
Virgil Goode sees the "Muslim boogeyman" around every corner; wasn’t he one of the congressional reprobates up in arms when the newly elected congressperson from Minnesota (I apologize, I've forgotten his name) who is Muslim got elected, and was going to take the oath of office on a Koran (Jefferson's personal Koran copy, by the way; oh, the head-spinning that must have been going on - pass the Dramamine)?
I acknowledge that, somewhere out there in the big, bad world, there are adherents of the Muslim faith who desire that all the rest of the world be converted to their particular interpretation of the religion or submit to the sword, but then, there's probably some portion of followers of just about any ideology that desire the same thing. Welcome to life on planet earth! Wear a helmet and sunscreen!
Virg, cut the crap, man. Seriously. Get a grip, come back to reality. Sometimes scary as hell, but it's o.k., we're working on making it a good place to be, ice cream for everybody who wants it (sorbet substitute for vegans, the lactose intolerant, and those with religious or ideological restrictions).
Best wishes for you on the show tonight, Glenn.
No kings,
Robert
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CSPAN has an archive of Iraq War Resolution Speeches
It appears to be down now but the following page has had links to individual speeches that is continually updated:
http://www.c-span.org/resources/house_feb2007.asp
You can try to check out YouTube and C&L also. They might have it.
If it continues to remain down and/or this speech doesn't isn't available elsewhere, let me know and I'll try to open up a YouTube account and post it there, as I have a digital copy (as I do of nearly every speech given this week on this resolution--over 20 hours' worth).
And, to quote Yogi (or something to that effect), if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning in his grave!
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Another interesting quote
Representative Sam Johnson (R-TX), on February 15, 2007:
The enemy wants our men and women in uniform to think their Congress doesn't care about them. We must learn from our mistakes. We cannot leave a job undone like we left in Korea, like we left in Vietnam, like we left in Somalia.
(Source: AP)
Representative Sam Johnson (R-TX), on October 5, 1993:
Mr. Speaker, can we trust this administration? Let us look at Somalia . We have been waiting for 10 months for a plan. Where is the focus? Is it U.N. control, is it nation-building, or is it just to put U.S. lives at risk?
It tore me up as a POW from Vietnam to see that POW tortured the way he was. And he was tortured, you could see it. And it tore me up to see those bodies dragged down the streets with ropes around their hands. How do we know they were dead when those guys caught them? We do not.
The Department of Defense says now we can fix everything with four tanks. It is a total lack of focus. The totals for America are 23 dead, 75 wounded, 5 missing, and at least 1 captured.
Now, let us switch to the year 1961, the place Vietnam, the second year of that involvement. The totals were 11 dead and 3 wounded. Look where we went.
Mr. Speaker, is this the beginning of a repeat performance? We need U.S. leadership. Let us get out of Somalia or get a plan.
(Source: Congressional Record)
(Emphases added)
If Clinton had advocated a "surge", would that have been a satisfactory plan? Is Rep. Johnson admitting to and apologizing for his role in leaving the job in Somalia undone?