Letters to the Editor
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Turnabout is Fair Play
Every veteran and member of the military should shudder to think of what will happen when other countries choose to adopt the US model. Will we be so saguine when the tactics we deem totally acceptable are used on our own?
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attacking lawyers
Funny/sad to read about Lindsay Graham attacking lawyers as "mucking up the process." Back in the Clinton impeachment, so very much was made about the fact that Graham himself is a lawyer. Maybe he thinks lawyers muck up the process because that's Graham's own approach to law?
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My son is an Iraq vet
Just this weekend my Marine son and two tour Iraq vet paid me a visit. Now 26 and a corporal, with each visit I learn just a bit more about what happened to him, what life was like, how he felt and how he feels.
He knows that I am an avid opponent of this war yet a strong supporter of the troops, a combination of views many find hard to reconcile. Of the many tidbits and stories he has slowly shared since his return from Ramadi perhaps the most telling was during this visit when he told me that...'I am not ready to believe that what I was doing over there wasn't for some greater good. I don't WANT to believe that it wasn't.'
Whether you agree with the war or oppose it, these kids that don a uniform and put their lives on the line are doing it for their country, for you and for me. They fight for an ideal that the rest of us, not mired in the rubble of Iraq must demand that our Congress make true. We must demand accountability from our Commander in Chief, the House, the Senate, we must save our kids in the military as they hope they are saving us.
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A round of applause.
Those 5 senators deserve to be utterly shamed. The Democratic Party should make sure to publicly and vehemently distance itself from such a sad display of cowardice.
I am stunned and disgusted. Hollywood conspiracy movies have nothing on the open and outright smallness that's just been displayed. These people are Liberals? hah, their affiliation makes them simply more contemptible versions their republican counterparts. I sincerely hope they all can be safely left out of office when their next elections come.
I'm almost speechless. Unfuckingbelievable.
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Veterans Day
What a sad day for the nation when the U.S. Congress agrees, right out in the open, to condone torture. That is the ultimate reality of this Senatorial act. We have become our enemies. The country's moral fiber is unraveling and it's the neo-cons, those who preach the loudest about "morals", that are leading the way. The five Democratic senators who voted for this travesty should be thrown out of the Party. Ultimately, this horror that has become the law of the land is on the Democrats' heads. They had the opportunity to repudidate the lawlessness and outrage of this Administration but AGAIN they supported it! On that one score, the right-wing is correct. The Democrats are a bunch of spineless twits.
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Veterans Day...U.S. Senators say it's time to close our courts....
Thank you for telling us the names:
Joe Lieberman
Mary Landrieu
Ben Nelson
Kent Conrad
Ron Wyden
Remember those names, folks. I don't know about you, but they're on my "list" now.
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Perfect Example
Dear Editor,
I could believe that the blind,lock step,head in the
sand Republicans could vote for such a law but I am
aghast at the thought that some Democrats could also
vote for this trashy piece of legislation.
It is no wonder that the Democrat Party "just doesn't
get it" to quote Jim Wallis of Sojourner Magazine.
As usual Mr. Wallis is right on...
Signed: A Conservative/Humanist
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Get rid of Neo-Con Democratic Senators
The right of Habeas Corpus is perhaps the single most important right that we have. All of our other rights balance on this in a sort of inverted pyramid.
To have it denied in the Senate is perhaps the most serious challenge to freedom and democracy in the history of our country.
And FIVE Democratic Senators voted to restrict Habeas Corpus: Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Kent Conrad, and Ron Wyden.
Ron Wyden supposedly represents me in Oregon. I promise to do my best to defeat him in the primaries - donating money, walking precincts, whatever - in order to send someone to the Senate who supports democracy and freedom.
The Democratic Party has no message, it has no mission, and it has no morals.
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a viable third party forming that can supplant them. Until that happens, we need to enforce SOME sort of morality and common sense among our representatives. When there is finally a viable alternative, we need to bail out of that sinking ship and get the decent Democratic politicians to jump with us.
Just sayin'
-Ron