Letters to the Editor
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Profiles in Democatric Cowardice
Here’s the deal.
American soldiers are dying in droves in Iraq and other places, but what are we debating, whether MoveOn.org was disrespectful to an active duty general? So what, doesn't the Senate have something better to do? Reminds me about the beginning of the war and France wouldn't go along with us, so the House of Representative voted to call "french fries" "freedom fries". Idiots, the French don't even like that name. When are we going to put our intelligence to good use?
General Petreaus has allowed him to be used as a political hack and is being treated as such, deal with it. This is the man who wrote the Army’s' latest manual on counter-insurgency. What is happening during the so-called "surge" runs counter to his own words and experience. Sounds like part the definition of a hack.
I tried to watch the show tonight, but I am sorry Joan, I can't get past Pat Buchanans' down right ignorance. You may try to talk sense to him, but the problem is not generational or anything else but ignorance.
Comparing MoveOn's ad to the swift boating of Kerry implies that MoveOn lied. Did they lie or did they express an opinion that some people disagree and many others agree? That ad was paid for by a lot of Americans who are not lefties or crazy, they are ordinary people who want to express their feelings.
Stop yelling at the messenger and pay attention to the message, we want the war ended and the carnage stopped. I believe that was to point of the November 2006 election. duh!
Denise Alexander