Letters to the Editor
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Why weren't you paying attention America?
On the day Bush was elected the first time I posted in a AOL chatroom the warning that America's democracy had been hijacked. I was heckled by the idiots on there then, like many are still now. I am a person living in Australia and even I could see it, so where were the rest of you then? Sleepwalking apparently! Its like the "I didn't do it" episode in The Simpsons where Bart gets away with anything by saying "I didn't do it" only in Bush's case he adds., "It was God". So in keeping with Bush's reading of the the nature of God vis a vis The Old Testament, I say to him, May the Lord strike you dead and wipe your seed from the face of the earth. Are you listening Lord? Or maybe just impeaching him and putting him and Cheney et al on war crimes charges would be better or are you all still sleepwalking?
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Why weren't you paying attention Australia?
You have a miniature neo-con!
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"They're All The Same"
Gary Kamiya's article is incisive and offers profound insight into the nature of pride, power, and mass violence. Yet I confess, Editor, I find it chilling that Kamiya, who is old enough and experienced enough in the history of war and official duplicity in the US that he ought to have learned these lessons a long, long time ago, is only discovering them, or recollecting them, now.
As many other writers have already observed, it was Kamiya and other mainstream liberals, not the entirety of the American people, who sleepwalked through the criminal excesses of the Bush Administration. Even your magazine, Editor, was to a large extent part of the sleepwalking, and I hope that your readers continue to hold your feet to the fire every time you attempt to claim that nobody could have seen this coming.
At least most people aren't going around saying that there's no difference between one politician and the next, anymore. Bush has given us that, at least.
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Busch's Religion?
Thank you for the excellent article about George Busch and the Iraq war. I have one disagreement with you however. I do not believe that George Busch is in this war because he is a religeous zealot. I believe is a money hungry, elitest whose desire for power led him into this war. I don't believe he even believes he's a "Christian."
I think taking over this region had $$$$ signs all over it - and in his mind "it could all be ours." How much money has Halliburten made on this war - and I wonder how many tax breaks they receive so that they are paying very little to rake in millions with no respect for the human blood that has been shed for them to get richer.
With son who has honrably chosen to make the military a career, I pray that we get somone in that office who will do what they took an oath to do, and that's support their people, not thier wallets.
Pray for peace - to whatever god works for you.
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Small matters
Amen msbau! There are people who call him The Prime Miniature. I call him a cold, ruthless creep with delusions of grandeur.
He's a prime example of short man's syndrome gone mad.
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Bush is an insect, nothing more, nothing less
We shouldn’t waste our emotional energy hating George Bush. He is nothing more than an insect and we should think of him as such; perhaps a cockroach or a slug. We must focus on the people who support him. What makes them tick? Is one human being really dumber than another? Is there a point where for some, the brain can not pass, similar to the study of advanced mathematics, where the brain hits a brick wall which can not be climbed? Is that how it is with the self-absorbed idiots that support a man responsible for the death of 3500 American soldiers and 600,000 civilians? Do they see all the same information as the rest of us, but yet it appears in a non-discernable form, like a dog who sees in black and white or hears a melody but has no emotional response?
Killing is serious business. That is why some of us have made a personal commitment to disown family and friends who support Bush. How and why is supporting Bush, different than being a murderer’s accomplice? You can make a choice and be cleansed; a choice to disconnect with all the murderer’s accomplices. It doesn’t make you insane; it makes you human. The Bush supporters are all insects.
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Questions for US citizens
"War, chaos and Bush's faith" - Outstanding! Brilliant piece!
But there are some important question left unasked:
1. How come US citizens still have not caught on to the games being played - with them, with their lives (and with the lives of the whole world's citizens) - by this gang of war criminals led by GW Bush?
2. When will you impeach this sorry excuse for a human being, G.W. Bush?
3. When will you throw these scoundrels out of power and into jail where they belong?
GSC
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Genesis 3:22 Collection Plate
War, chaos and Bush's faith . It seems this war is one big collection plate for the billionaire club that hand picks our "leaders". Perhaps human sacrifice is essential to this "faith". Are these dice graphics a hint?
Skull & Bones and 18=6+6+6
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Presumptuous to the point of insulting
Gary~
I completely agree with your thoughts on how casually this administration wields the sword and how this was to the great detriment of the nation. However, I find your assumption that all of this is based on the president's faith to be presumptuous.
We know a great deal about this president, and how careless he is with his decisions. However, to make the leap that his MO all stems from his faith is too great for me to follow. The fact is that we don't know what's going on in his head, and, given the secretive nature of the administration, we might never know. To claim that it all stems from his faith implies that anyone of a deep faith is incapable, on some level, of acting entirely rationally.
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Bush, Bush, Bush,... Bush Did Not Start the Iraq War
Bush did not start this freaking disaster, this global and historic crime, that you call Operation Enduring Freedom. He does not operate in a vacuum. He invaded Iraq on behalf of, and with the utter, utter enthusiasm of the American people. Yes of course he lied. So what? Caveat emptor America. Even in America where half of the credulous masses believe in Creationism, it is a given that politicians lie. So why was there so little examination of the Iraq project, so little objection? Why did Americans not notice what Hans Blix, Scott Ritter and just about the rest of the world noticed? That Saddam had no WMD and most certainly had nothing to do with 911.
Because America wanted to go to war. America always wants to go to war. You, the American people love war - as long as you are "winning".
So don't tell me, don't tell the world, that this is Bush's war! This is America's war. This is your crusade, not Bush's not Cheney's, not the neo-cons - yours. Bush is simply the personification of the American need for mass destruction and genocide in the name of dubious and untrue ends.