Has Chris Matthews ever been known to understand the issues at hand. I think not. He doesn't take time to reflect on very much or listen to anyone because he's too busy giving us his opinion on things in a very superficial level. I won't watch his show very often as a result.

Excuse me, but I don't know where else to post this. Reading Prime Minister Aziz' comments about the CIA counter-intelligence report of the airstrike in Pakistan (It's absurd he said) made me think . . .

Who was it that decided to bomb a NUCLEAR ARMED country without the knowledge of its government?

Before I was just dumbfounded, now I'm getting scared.

Peggy Carey

Yes, he could and would.

This is a translation and he is not using noteworthy per se but in Arabic (a great language with a rich vocabulary many abstract philosophical concepts) there are many expressions that say "deserving of attention" "deserving of memory."

What do people think Bin Ladin is? An illiterate perhaps who only grunts. What is so spectacular about using noteworthy?

Bin Laden appears periodically to cause support the President and his war to increase, so this nightmare can go on. He did the same before the election.

If Chris Matthews thinks that Bin Laden was trying to drive a wedge between Bush and the people of the US, Matthews could not be further from the truth. Bush did that all by himself with his lies, his misrepresentations, his lack of caring for Cindy Sheehan and the citizens who were hurt by Katrina. Bush's failed policies and his complete disregard for our laws (wiretapping,etc) and his failure to comply with international laws have driven that wedge. To say that Bin Laden was able to do that gives him WAY too much power; Americans don't care about Bin Laden's ravings. When Bush said he wanted Osama "dead or alive" we foolishly believed it, but can you name ANYONE who seems less concerned about Bin Laden than the man who uttered that sentence? I'm glad that Kerry spoke up regarding Michael Moore; there is a man who has tried to show Bush for the sham that he is.

I just don't know where to begin. I am a true Patriot, brought up to believe that my country is the best thing that ever happened to planet Earth, that everyone loves us, and that those who didn't are evil.

I never believed in Santa Claus. I gave the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy a miss, and though I was raised a Catholic, I found the universal truth of Jesus' message of loving ones fellow man so much more important that His ability to walk on water and to feed the multitudes with nothing.

It pains me so greatly now that I can no longer believe in my country. I suppose we all reach a state where our childhood visions of the world, Truth writ large, are laid assunder. But watching an administration murder wholesale an innocent people... watching the country that I love, a country that used to be thought of as great liberators become nothing more than torturers.. it saddens me to the core. Hearing people I once respcted as good, salt of the Earth types actually argue FOR torturing people, arguing FOR the stealing of our liberties, giving away our precious freedoms for a safety that doesn't exist.. it makes me want to weep.

Listening to the media regurgitate talking points given to us by a corrupt administration is too much. Gone are the days for Murrow. Gone are the days of the journalist as the soldier of Truth, of Trust. We now live in an ear of "Pundits", and like most puns, there is a joke in there somewhere, and, also like most puns, the joke really isn't funny.

It is exceedingly difficult to know the difference between right and wrong. The American people used to be able to count of the people in the newsrooms to deliver to us the facts, so we could discover the Truth. Now we have entire networks devoted to spin, and other networks who were once respctable now just bleating out the same mindless, untruthful, distorted propaganda in the name of ratings. RATINGS? My god, whatever happened to the truth?

Matthews is not the only media whore. Even giving Fox a miss, the whoredom is rampant. And, unfortunately, this is what America has to help them make the right decisions. Or, as the case may be, help justify the wrong decisions.

A free press is the most important liberty we can have... it is the glue that holds all other freedoms together, that keeps us safe from people who mean to do us all harm for the sake of their own person gain.

I end with a quote. It is an idea from a man reknown for his ideas. It will sounds familiar, at least in it's practice.

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country". Anyone care to take a guess at who said that? Karl Rove? Man, you are close. It was Herman Goering. You know him, he was Hitler's brain, in much the same sense are Rove is Bush's brain.

It is an incredibly sad day in America when the news organizations can't be bothered to speak the truth.

David Luckett

Being the suspicious cynic that I am, I reached the conclusion a while ago that Osama is dead. His periodic reappearence, at convenient times to rekindle fear and docility in the homeland, is now becoming predictable. Osama is a necessary prop in the regime's propaganda war.

The CIA authenticates, allegedly, the audio tapes. More likely they create them, and why would anyone take their word for anything. If Bin Laden were alive his people would prop him up in front of a TV camera to prove he is alive, and let him deliver his message. An audio tape in this day and age, just like a photograph, is too easy to fake, and it doesn't matter that it came through the Arab news network. Where else would you plant such a tape? Certainly don't give it to the New York Times. They would sit on it for a year, and wet their pants when the White House calls.