Letters In My Newspaper-----Most Of Them Are Against Bush!

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Sun Mar-28-04 12:52 PM
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Letters In My Newspaper-----Most Of Them Are Against Bush!

I'm going to write a few examples of letters from my Sunday Globe paper in here. I was very surprised to see that most of them were against Bush, and his war on "terra."

"Why Was Clark Outside The 'Loop'?

I could list for hours the many ways that the Bush administration's doublespeak often cycles back and showcases its incompetence and arrogance. Are they so stupid they don't realize what they are revealing, or do they think we are so stupid that we won't connect the dots?

I, for one, am not that stupid, and the latest snippet from Vice President Cheney is quite a gem. Cheney said on Limbaugh's show that Richard Clarke "wasn't in the loop, frankly." So Cheney is trying to discredit Clarke, who was the counterterrorism czar at the time, by pointing out that he was excluded from the inner circle? What does it say about the priorities and mentality of Bush and company that they excluded a man whose sole responsibility was to coordinate counterterrorism efforts?

It demonstrates the disconnected reality and immature mentality embraced by this select group of power-hungry, self-centered interwoven men who chose to use their first 280 days in office to cultivate junior high-type cliques and ignore very real threats. And isn't this exactly what Clarke said on "60 minutes," that his repeated request for Cabinet level meetings about Al Qaeda were ignored, that he was placed outside the loop?

Cheney uses the exclusion of Clarke as a defense of the Bush administration's pre-9/11 policy. How on earth does he consider the death of 3,000 at the WTC defensible? If I were Cheney, I would be mortified, guilt-ridden, and forever apologetic knowing I had participated in keeping the counterterrorism czar out of the loop and as a direct result, 9/11 happened.

But then again, I have a conscience and concern for my fellow citizens. By this admission of guilt presented as an alibi, Cheney reveals that he and those in his loop do not.

Alison Hunt,
Brookline"

Again, wow.....this is an excellent letter!

"The Fundamentalist States of America

Great concern is expressed over the potential for a militant Islamic state in Iraq, similar to Iran and, to a lesser degree, Saudi Arabia. The threat is that the government will pass and enforce laws based on a new leader's religious vision for the future of the country.

There may be a dangerous parallel to this trend in our own country.

There was a Bush campaign ad on TV recently in which the president, facing the camera, gave a list fo problems facing the country and in each case said, "I know" how to deal with these issues. The message given was that he had the answers.

Several months ago President Bush stated that the United States had a "calling" to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq. In Bush's fundamentalist Christian world, that word has a special meaning. It is something preordained, not action taken after investigation and sober reflection of facts and alternatives. It is something dictated by a higher power.

Add this to his frequent statements that there is no middle ground between good and evil, his administration's plan for "faith-based alternatives," and his opposition to freedom of choice and his attempts to define "marriage." Do we not have a government moving toward decision-making based on someone's interpretation of certain religious teachings and beliefs?

How does this differ, except by degree, from the message of the imams and ayatollahs that goverment exists not to carry out the will of the people, but the will of the prophet as they choose to interpret it?

Anthony McManus,
Dover, N.H."

Wow....just wow...I hope that many others in MA and NH are reading the letters in the Sunday editorial!I'll post one more letter, and then that'll be that.

"GOP's Use of 9/11 Imagery is Tasteless

Liz Jones of Maynard misses the point in her March 19 letter, "for the left, Bush can't do anything right." President Bush's use of 9/11 imagery is tasteless because the tragedy occurred on his watch, and none of his work warrants merit by association with the heroes who lost their lives in the tragedy.

In fact, his politicization of the event begs condemnation of his leadership for polarizing an event that should have brought Americans and the moderates of the world together. The Democrats are clamoring for pictures of returning dead American soldiers. This would bring home the reality of a war that they oppose on the basis of its false pretenses and its continued toll on our soldiers.

Kerry's allegiance to his fellow Vietnam veterans speaks more to his understanding of the toll of war on a people than to the type of opportunism displayed by our duty-dodging junior President Bush. Jones misses the point of these images entirely, and is too quick to accept the shallow views of the media's conservative pundits.

Pete Jones,
Mayfield"

Ouch! That was a zinger! Alright...here's a challenge for you DUers. I want you to find the letters in your Sunday editorial and post them in here. Can you do it?