Letters to the Editor
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Uh,uh, NCawley...
...I'm not buyin' that one:
"...Lets go back in time when all americans were informed by Colin Powell that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction. We all believed him...he had the pictures of trucks that were supposedly carrying them, he had maps of where they were and he had pictures of the warehouses they were being stored in. How do you think the people in the Senate reacted to these pictures? Have you ever asked? Why did Colin Powell go to the United Nations with these pictures? Did you ever ask that question? WE WERE ALL LIED TO!..."
Some people have good sense, morality and the ability to do their homework when recognising what obviously shapes up as the "most important vote" in their poltical lives:
Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Russell Feingold (D-WI)
Robert Graham (D-FL)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
James Jeffords (I-VT)
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
[immediate source: Robert Geiger's blog at http://www.democrats.com/node/6890]
I was so taken aback by the nascent assertions, in 2002, that we should go to war with Iraq rather than continue our pursuit of Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban that I did research merely by exercising my mouse hand and clicking finger...those assertions just didn't add up to the point where we should risk strategic viability, the national treasury, the lives of our soldiers and those of Iraqis who'd already had had their and their childrens' butt waxed by an embargo just to axe a contained dictator who'd rarely roused himself to do anything but shoot at high flying US planes maintaining a no-fly zone that, by the way, enabled Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the one significant al-quaeda terrorist actually in Iraq prior to 9/11, to frolic free in the northlands of our Kurdish "friends."
David Shuster and the execrable Chris Matthews aside, the reaction you're noting in this letter column isn't about sexism, it's about a senator wanting to be President so badly she seemingly betrayed everything she says she allegedly believed in.