Letters to the Editor, August 13, 2004

Wishful thinking about Kerry

Kerry tore his mask long a go but a lot of Arab left-wing intellectuals still seemed to support him. Now he told the press we would still vote for war knowing that Iraq was no threat.

This US election is between two sides of the same coin, as always have been, only these times things are more self-evident, maybe as a last chance to realize what kind of "world order" are we living in?

"Left", "right", all the same puppets.

Regards

Juan Bertucci

In the name of Jesus, PLEASE revoke the US license to kill.

In the name of Jesus, I can't stand it any more. How many MORE people will our government blow up and maim and kill? Thousands dead? Tens of thousands dead? Hundreds of thousands dead? Millions dead?

When will my country's armies stop the killing in Iraq? When will they finally say, "We have won the war on Iraq." When every man, woman and child in that country is dead?

Yesterday Muqtada al-Sadr put out an impassioned plea to the nations of the world. "Help my country. They're killing us one by one." American top brass look down their noses at this man and go on killing and killing and killing -- as if Jesus Himself gave them the right to open a butcher shop in Iraq.

Where is the moral imperative, where is the moral justification for thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths? There is none.

By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

"informed sources" in media

Has the media become shameless in doing special interest's biddings?

The disgrace of the mainstream media in social engineering is an area that is often avoided in conversations.

Evidence that mainstream media continues to grow in alliance of special interest groups continues.

The literate people of the twenty-first century question the "informed sources" mentioned by reporters as being truly informed, and whether the information they provide is important, accurate and undistorted by emotion or personal bias.

The phrase "who refused to be identified" has become the standard model regarded as typical of lazy and sloppy reporting.

The practical hardheaded intelligence of the reporter has become a thing of the past.

Abla Mutaa