Regarding “Mr. President, I wish …”, a letter on Sunday about the war in Afghanistan: The writer should have invited Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and Bush, the people who made the decision to put your loved one in harms way. President Obama…
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Cheney says the quantanamo prisoners are the worst of the worst. How can he know that since there have been no trials? What we do know is that we paid Afghans to turn in their enemies to collect a reward. The Defense…
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Recent articles and commentary about torture (Bill McClellan and William Ramsey) raise the question about how far we should to go to investigate and prosecute those responsible for “enhanced interrogation, etc.” Shouldn’t we just move on and not tear the…
In response to Bob Scheiber’s letter to the editor this week, I thought about the leaders of the GOP and realized that I could only switch parties and become a Republican if I were a homosexul pedophile like Rep. Mark…
After reading about Sarah Palin (In Alaska, Palin kept politics personal, 9-14-08), it appears John McCain chose the perfect candidate to replace Dick Cheney as Vice President. And they are trying to sell a change campaign?
Susan Schreiner
St. Charles
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“Some leaders of the religious right asked their followers to pray for rain to disrupt Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention. Either their prayers failed to make clear which convention they meant or God must have thought the Republicans would be better… |
Am I the only one who was disgusted by the hypocrisy of George Bush in verbally slapping Russia for doing to the nation of Georgia exactly what he did to Iraq? The only difference between the two atrocities was the…
All of us should be concerned about cheney deleting information on a report on climate change. This affects all of our lives and is another example of the arrogance he has showed.Harriet Ross
Creve Coeur
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is being criticized, in some circles, for not planning a fact finding trip to Iraq. Many of our “experts” have visited there without significant results. Visitors are shown areas that the military and politicians want them…
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