Posted on 06/21/2005 3:31:05 AM PDT by goldstategop
Amnesty International is a great big anti-American joke. If they care so bloody much about human rights as they claim, why were they so silent when it came to a woman being starved to death in Florida?
It's not too late, as Durbin said of Bush in his speech: The senator should stop apologizing and keep up the criticism of the hellhole America's military has created at Guantanamo. He has no reason to be defensive; he's telling the truth.
Like hell he is. There have been many who, unlike Durbin, have actually visited the facility or even served there and stated unequivocally Durbin just pulled this stuff out of his a$$. Has anybody seen this FBI report he referenced? My money says it does not exist; Durbin just wanted an excuse to trash the military so he made the FBI report up.
In addition to this editorial, Richard Cohen at the Compost and Andy Sullivan have both come out today defending Durbin. This is looking more and more like a coordinated full frontal assault by the Left on Durbin's critics and on the US military. I guess MoveOn has decided it's heard enough about Durbin.
All Amnesty did when they "hit back hard" was confirm beyond any doubt that they were idiotic, anti-American jackasses with zero credibility.
The Star is read by people who want to LEAVE the country....!
Canada is only 300(?) miles north, good road all the way. As far as I'n concered they have my express permission to avail themselves of our fine interstate system of roads.
Now that's what we viewpoint-deprived Star Tribune readers need: Bierce and Carroll in one columnist. Do us a favor, Laz, and offer your services as a Fairness Doctrine-satifying syndicated columnist to Democrat house organs like the Strib. Some of us would actually buy the paper instead of reading only the online version.
. . . at least while Dubya occupies the White House. I read a petulant letter in the Strib a few months ago from a guy in Stillwater who was moving to Banff in a self-righteous huff. Someone responded a few days later with a polite imperative along the lines of "don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you."
BTTT
This is the ENTIRE content of today's "letters" page (caution - - keep a barf bag nearby):
Letters to the Editor
WWRD?
Question: I wonder what the moral majority would do if in 2008 someone like Jimmy Carter ran for president. I wonder... Also, what would Rush "Windbag" Limbaugh do?
PAUL PAINE GRAND RAPIDS
Presidency becomes clear to me now
If people like Madonna, Rush Limbaugh, Oprah Winfrey, and Hugh Hefner can be nominated as The Greatest Americans of all time in the Discovery Channel poll, it is not too hard to see how our present administration in Washington got elected.
JERRY WHEELER DULUTH
We need true patriotism: dissent
Our country needs desperately a new patriotic American to step forward and expose the Bush gang for what it is -- a coven of rich, arrogant, power-mad criminals.
Yes, they do worship a god, which is in the Bible. He is called Mammon. Mark Felt, identified as "Deep Throat," is the greatest hero produced by the 20th century, and the reporters and newspapers that worked with him should be given the Medal of Freedom.
The assault we are under now started with Richard Nixon and has grown secretly through the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute and other far-right, neo-conservative -- or neo-fascist -- think tanks.
I believe we had a savior in Sen. John McCain. When McCain came onto the stage at the Republican National Convention when Senator McCain came onto the stage, I was waiting for him to lay his hand on Bush and proclaim, "You are under citizen arrest for treason, for subverting the U.S. Constitution and lying to the people (government) of the U.S.A." I was disappointed.
Many of us already knew of the facts of Bush's lies to invade Iraq as revealed by the Downing Street report, long before it was revealed recently in London. We also know about Bush's military crimes, his failure in college, his corrupt bankrupt business ventures in the oil business, his connection to Ken-Boy Lay and Enron, the offshore bank BCI and why he escorted the Royal Saud and Bin Laden families home one week after Sept. 11. Oh yeah, rigged elections.
I believe the order to torture prisoners, urinate on the Koran and violate any law necessary came directly from the top: Bush-Cheney. When they deny all this, they are lying and we know it. Follow the money. Save this country. Impeach Bush. Wake up citizens.
JIM MAGNESS HIBBING
'Greatest generation' must live up to its name
Where has the promise of this generation gone? Is it that we, not being the "greatest generation," have given up? When did we turn from a generation of such social activism to a generation of acquiescence? Why have our radical leaders of the '60s and '70s disappeared? What has caused their silence? Are there others able to take up the cause? If so, when will they speak? Has society changed? Can severe criticism just short of unpatriotism be given a voice? Why were we heard in our youth, but not now? Is it only "the next generation" that is blessed with a microphone and stage? Or, have we truly become unfeeling?
WALTER W. VASIL DULUTH
Nutrition programs provide food for millions
I am writing in support of federal nutrition programs. Hunger is on the rise in the United States. The Department of Agriculture reports that 36.3 million people, including 13.3 million children are food insecure in our country.
Yet in a time of increasing poverty and hunger, the budget resolution Congress passed in April requires $35 billion in cuts for domestic programs. It also mandates $70 billion in tax cuts over five years, more than half of which will go to people who earn more than $1 million per year.
I am appalled at President Bush's recommendation that $500 million be cut from food stamps by making 300,000 women ineligible. As it becomes harder for low-income Americans to receive food stamps and free school lunches, how can this administration say it is reducing food insecurity in the United States?
Federal nutrition programs are a small part of the $2.6 trillion federal budget. Figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show that lower revenues, not increased spending, account for the large budget deficit.
Congress should maintain and strengthen programs that the working poor depend on, such as food stamps and school lunches, Head Start and Kids Cafes. Children are our nation's future. How can we let them go hungry?
Please write, phone, fax or email Rep. Jim Oberstar and Sens. Norm Coleman and Mark Dayton. E-mail President G.W. Bush at president@whitehouse.gov. Let them know how this budget affects you!
SARAH ALLARD
DULUTH
It must be the Lake Superior water.
Notice the ominous black background, the terrible barbed wire. The United States military is nothing but a bunch of SS Guards at a Death camp, you see.
Implied in the cover wording is an implied "hint" that we tortured these poor widdle defenseless Muslims to "get them to talk."
No, it's the Fever Swamp water. These people don't just drink it, they drain the damn thing dry every day. Duluth is the hardest of the hard-core Lefty bastions in this state.
The only thing the Star Trib or Duluth News-Tribune are good for is an emergency substitute for Charmin.
Bingo! Under the Geneva protocols, irregular combatants can be executed. After they've been interrogated, at the captors option.
Stop Dick Turbinladen Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!Contact your REPS
Link to contact your representative
ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.
He's Got A Plan
Zippo Hero
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes
Don't be a know nothing do nothing dumbocrap!
"Hitlery's legal stance on everything"
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010802.php
Col. Repya writes the Star Tribune
Lt. Col. Joe Repya makes us proud to be Americans from Minnesota. He is a retired Army Reserve Officer who re-upped for active duty at age 58. He is now 59 and serving in Iraq. We wrote about him this past September in "Col. Repya reports for duty." This morning he writes from Camp Victory in Baghdad:
I was so upset when I read the Star Tribune's Editorial today that I sent off this letter below to the editor from my duty desk in Baghdad, Iraq. The voices of millions killed by Hitler, Stalin & Pol Pot are rising from their mass graves and demanding an apology. Durbin is wrong and the Star Tribune is wrong even more. Clearly they are not on our side! Soldiers over here keep asking me why America has forgotten 9-11. I keep telling them that the liberal media won't let the American people see the images of the murdered and tortured Iraqis we find every day over here. Please keep up the fight back home and I promise the American military will win the war over here!
Here is Col. Repya's letter to the editor of the Star Tribune:
Your editorial "Durbin's Message/US Must End Prisoner Abuse" proves beyond any doubt that the Star Tribune Editorial Staff has no idea of who we are fighting and why! As a soldier in Iraq, I was highly insulted by the comments of Senator Durbin and his pathetic excuse of being "misunderstood." So I offer a suggestion. Let's divide up these victims of "the hellhole America's military has created" at Guantanamo and allow them to spend a weekend at the homes of the Star Tribune Editorial Staff and Senator Durbin. America's military will anxiously await the report on the impression they will make on you and your families.
Joseph Repya
LTC, Aviation
MNC-I LNO
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Camp Victory South
Baghdad, Iraq
JERRY WHEELER DULUTH
Yep. It shows that far too many of the 62 million people who voted for George Bush have better things to do than vote for Madonna, Oprah Winfrey and Hugh Hefner on a ridiculous television show. It does show that Democrats, however, are looking for things to do.
Seems pretty simple to me.
Meanwhile, the Red Star's position is indefensible. If I subscribed to it (which I don't), this would be a cancellation offense.
You have to remember, a good deal of Strib subscribers still have Wellstone bumper stickers on their Volvos.
Which reminds me of a joke:
Q: What would Paul Wellstone be doing, right now, if he was alive?
A: Clawing at his coffin lid.
kmoyer@startribune.com
Ken Moyer is the Publisher and President. Write him.
Yes, that's the city of Mini-crap-on-us. To find anyplace further left I would have to go to Madison WI or Sad Freaksicko CA. Keep in mind when you are in the City of Flakes that if you hurt anyones feelings, 911 can be called on you. Also home of University of Minnesota, which recently published an academic book promoting essentially child molestation. With the exception of certain electrical/control systems suppliers, I REFUSE to spend money in that insane asylum.
Hey RT Rybak, if you don't like what I have to say about your looney bin, just let me know, and I will drive around this state with TEXAS tags, and a TEXAS drivers license!
Well, yesterday Durbin apologized.
Will we see a retraction/apology from the America-hating Minneapolis Star/Tribune?
Fortunately, I hadn't yet had breakfast when I read the North Shore liberals' jeremiads. I think they're ingesting some strange flora on their nuts-and-berries expeditions.
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