Letters to the NYT: The difference between left and right

[BurtWorm]

I think I'll hold back on commenting. These letters speak volumes for themselves.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/opinion/l22kerry.html

To the Editor:

For someone who changes his mind every time the wind blows, John Kerry is the last person who should be criticizing someone else's judgment (front page, Sept. 21).

Mr. Kerry says the war in Iraq shouldn't be part of the war on terrorism, yet that's where a major part of the problem was.

The world is a safer place with Saddam Hussein gone. The Iraqi people are no longer being oppressed under the rule of an insane dictator.

It's easy for Mr. Kerry to say now that the war was unjustified because we haven't found weapons of mass destruction, but every major intelligence agency told us that Iraq had them.

And just because Iraq wasn't connected to 9/11 doesn't mean that it didn't pose a terrorist threat to the rest of world.

Jamie Valeriano

Wexford, Pa., Sept. 21, 2004




To the Editor:

One important factor that John Kerry's statement only alludes to is popular world opinion of our preventive war on Iraq.

The Bush administration is not fully credited by many outside this country as a legitimate government, but rather as one that came to power by means of a judicial coup.

A victory by President Bush in this election, perceived as legitimate, will change that perception irrevocably and be seen a declaration of war by the American people themselves.

We have opened the gates of hell in Iraq and now have the opportunity to do so on a global scale.

Christopher D. Countey

New York, Sept. 21, 2004

[Roland99]

1. Could Jamie be any more vacuous??

I don't think so.

[BurtWorm]

2. Could Jamie have said anything resembling an original thought?

I don't think so on that score, either. ;)

[sui generis]

3. poor stupid jamie

but he's like about half of the American population who think that terrorism and Iraq were somehow related before the war.

We unilaterally invaded Iraq not because of terrorism but because of made-up WMD. Afghanistan was the citadel of terrorism, and if we were going to do a terrorism preventative, we should have invaded Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan IS NOT Iraq, but now thanks to dumbya's myopic policies Iraq is now another haven for wannabe terrorists. And let's face some truth here - 4 out of 5 of the major cities in Iraq are no longer controlled by Americans and we aren't even safe inside the green zone in Baghdad. We are losing this guerilla war and whatever it is we're doing right now to correct the situation is EXACTLY enough to give us the situation that we have. If we want a different result, we are going to have to do something different besides just "stay the course".

[BurtWorm]

4. Jamie belongs to the 22% of Americans who get their news from talk radio

and FOX. He might as well have his brain removed and a tape recorder from the RNC implanted. He might be able to think a little better.

[Cha]

5. "The World"..is Not a safer Place since

"sadam is gone", jamie. Get your head out of your ass and look what is happening in Iraq with the Giant Can of Worms that your bushboy has OPened!

sadam was getting weak over there in Iraq and if he wasn't sitting on the 2nd largest oil reserves on EArth we would be not getting our Soldiers killed over there right Now.

Oh, and jamie?..it's ill-informed people like you who are getting our Soldiers killed..just like you were pulling the trigger.

[BurtWorm]

6. Astroturfing? Has anyone seen a letter like Jamie's in their local papers?

It just hit me that he used the phrase "changes his mind every time the wind blows," which dovetails with the Bush campaign's "whichever way the wind blows" windsurf ad. I wouldn't be surprised if this is astroturfed.