Letters to the Editor
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wow, what a good piece.
this bush/cheney era has just been a tragedy for everybody it's touched (excuse me, except for the top 1% of the american taxpayer tier). i can't find anything clever or vitriolic to say. it's just enervating and depressing. god i hate movement republicans.
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General Custer
At least General George W. (sic - I know) Custer died with his troopers. Our new General George W. Bush is alive and dangerous. He will head for Paraguay, apparently, when his term ends.
Gary K. - Please write shorter, more frequent articles covering the same groud. This is brilliant, but it is too long to keep a right-winger's attention.
We are past the time of the Federalist Papers. We need snappy four-paragraph stuff now.
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bluegun, I thought
about responding. You did. I am tired of it, too. The damn gdamned tide is turning. Let those who deserve to drown do so. That is allIgottosay.
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let's not get so tired...
...we forget to impeach these criminals and throw them in jail. They deserve at LEAST that.
Congress needs to keep right on investigating. There's a better than even chance something will come up that is so obviously criminal that Cheney and Bush cannot stand.
I want to see them do a perp-walk so bad. I know. It likely won't happen. But let's not give up just yet.
Because these two men must be thoroughly disgraced for the good of this country. Otherwise, the nuts who support them will only be back that much sooner.
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If they want to be Churchill
...they can call for blood sweat and tears by calling for volunteers to enlist. But they won't do it.
To 'win' in Iraq, we need soldiers on the ground, as many soldiers as we can get. And the war needs support from the public. A massive outpouring of volunteers would solve both problems. But they won't do it, because they know they won't get any number of volunteers. Even war supporters won't volunteer for the war.
Far from being Churchillian, they're simply being cowards. And their supporters are cowards. Far from being determined to win the war or avoid losing, they are in fact planning on losing, and on blaming Democrats for the loss.
They need to be called out on this. The president should be asked why he isn't calling for volunteers. Dick Cheney should be asked why he isn't calling for volunteers. Rush Limbaugh should be asked why he isn't calling for volunteers. If they really want to win the war, that's the way to do it--get as many volunteers for the war as they can. But they aren't doing it.
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Let's give him another reason to veto help for our troops!
Hay people, since our leader won't accept time limits why don't we all write our senators and reps urging that on the next bill that they send to him that they take the time lines out but reinstate the year 2000 tax on anyone making over 100 thousand a year. I figure he should have something else to rant and rave about!!!
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WWII
Good article, Gary.
You know, I'm sick and tired of hearing World War II referred to as "The Last Good War." It was ugly and cruel, millions died and it didn't have to happen. The fuckups, missed cues and downright incompetencies that led to both the war in Europe or the war in the Pacific are not morally excusable just because Hitler was a bad dude and the Japs hit first. It's like talking about someone's "heroic battle against lung cancer" after they smoked for forty years. War is shit. It's caused by stupidity. There are no Good wars.
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Losing is winning
Doesn't sound any better than war is peace gary. If you never thought this was worthwhile then you'll never understand why we shouldn't take the dems lead.
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Bell the Cat
Stories serve a great purpose to illuminate events. Normally I love Gary's essays but this one is a retread, albeit stoked by some flare ups recently. The story written here is still "The Emperor Has No Clothes". But that story has been absorbed. Watch Bill Maher, for example, and see everyone still hash out and go into detail more revelations and disgust about the Emperor's nudity. Tenent's book is the latest addition. But its a closed loop. The country gets it.
The real story now is different. It has morphed into "Who Will Bell the Cat?" That story has not yet revealed its ending or end game. The critical mass is approaching when these people will finally be taken down. Then the "cat" will have been "belled". How and when is the question.
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War? What war?
I don't get it. They keep calling this thing a war. It ain't. It's an occupation that is going terribly wrong. Occupations aren't won, they just tend to bleed the occupiers and the occupants white -- then the occupiers finally leave. Funny how we never seem to learn that.
The thing that really pees me off is that this whole debuncle just had to happen. A wounded and humiliated America needs retribution -- somebody always has to pay. And now we have all these two-faced SOBS saying, "If I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have supported it . . . ".
Codswallop -- all of America is to blame. How was it even conceivable that this current crew of criminals, maniacs, misfits, morons and sociopaths could have ever been considered to hold any position of power and / or responsibility??? What were you thinking?? That these people were going to rehabilitate? That they weren't going to continue their ways?? And they are going to hang on until the last dime is squeezed out and stolen(and that's why they're in it -- money and power), and they ain't going to leave kindly. These folks are gonna poison all the wells, so to speak, just out of spite. They'll go kicking, screaming, scratching and howling like the dirty dogs they are . . .
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Any U.S. Attorney types available to read the Constitution? Article III, perhaps?
...we forget to impeach these criminals and throw them in jail. They deserve at LEAST that.
Let's hope that the Senate is capable of reading up on the definition of the term "treason." Is it possible that the real reason for ensuring that all U.S. Attorneys are Bush-friendly, is to make sure that no U.S. Attorney will file such a charge against the neo-cons?