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kd7sovI must not get angry at letters to the editor.
I must not get angry at letters to the editor.
I must not get angry at letters to the editor.
This one, from this morning's paper, in particular:
Thanks, George Bush
We are starting our sixth year of not being attacked, thanks to George Bush. Our taxes are low, and the economy is robust. I cannot thank the president enough for everything he has done to make my home and family safe.
Millions of people will be liberated in Iraq, and Saddam won't be killing thousands of his own people. It will be hard to say over time how many millions of lives will be saved by the sacrifice of our brave troops.
The French and Germans and Democrats are now coming back and saying maybe we should help, now that it looks like we could win and that it's going to be politically correct.
People at home who hate Bush just don't get it. They would rather have high taxes, stock market crashes because of terrorist attacks on our own soil, stand in line for government subsidies and run and hide when the going gets tough.
Well, yes, I would rather have higher taxes than continue throwing blood at an enemy so ill-defined it can't be beaten and another that has nothing to do with the declared war. To paraphrase a song: "We have no chance! No chance at all; why throw our lives away?" The Iraqi government has asked us to pull out. The American people have asked us to pull out. The American Congress has asked us to pull out. But apparently no such thing will be considered until the Current Occupant becomes the Prior Occupant.
Gah. Utah: the only state where Bush still has a significant portion of the people rooting for him.
I must not get angry at letters to the editor.
I must not get angry at letters to the editor.
This one, from this morning's paper, in particular:
Thanks, George Bush
We are starting our sixth year of not being attacked, thanks to George Bush. Our taxes are low, and the economy is robust. I cannot thank the president enough for everything he has done to make my home and family safe.
Millions of people will be liberated in Iraq, and Saddam won't be killing thousands of his own people. It will be hard to say over time how many millions of lives will be saved by the sacrifice of our brave troops.
The French and Germans and Democrats are now coming back and saying maybe we should help, now that it looks like we could win and that it's going to be politically correct.
People at home who hate Bush just don't get it. They would rather have high taxes, stock market crashes because of terrorist attacks on our own soil, stand in line for government subsidies and run and hide when the going gets tough.
Well, yes, I would rather have higher taxes than continue throwing blood at an enemy so ill-defined it can't be beaten and another that has nothing to do with the declared war. To paraphrase a song: "We have no chance! No chance at all; why throw our lives away?" The Iraqi government has asked us to pull out. The American people have asked us to pull out. The American Congress has asked us to pull out. But apparently no such thing will be considered until the Current Occupant becomes the Prior Occupant.
Gah. Utah: the only state where Bush still has a significant portion of the people rooting for him.
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Date: 2007-08-29 05:39 pm (UTC)We are starting our sixth year of not being attacked, thanks to George Bush. Our taxes are low, and the economy is robust. I cannot thank the president enough for everything he has done to make my home and family safe.
Our gas prices have more than tripled since he's come into office and the budget is no longer balanced. Plus he has no care for the future and environmental concerns. As for being attacked, I think that once we realized that we could be attacked, measures would have been taken by any president to prevent them.
The Iraqi government has asked us to pull out. The American people have asked us to pull out. The American Congress has asked us to pull out.
But if we pull out the terrorists win. I have no idea how that works, but yes.
Utah: the only state where Bush still has a significant portion of the people rooting for him.
What about Texas?
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Date: 2007-08-30 04:00 pm (UTC)So we're told. I say if we stay there we a)are doing some of the terrorists' work for them (aggravating the locals, if nothing else), which frees them up to attack elsewhere; b)are providing terrorists with an opportunity to attack American citizens en masse off of American soil, and c)destroying whatever good reputation America has had. Sounds like the terrorists win if we stick around, too.
What about Texas?
Okay, I admit it. I spoke imprecisely. I meant a majority. Utah-in-general will, for reasons I don't pretend to understand, almost always support any Republican.