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09.21.2009 3:30 pm

Better to pay for health care than war

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is in answer to Another Black Hole, a letter from Richard Williamson in the September 18th paper.  If Mr. Williamson wrote a letter like this when the War on Iraq was started, then I understand his concern. However, we spent…

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08.21.2009 6:22 pm

Some of us have been awake for years

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  I don’t understand the tea baggers, and the 35 year old woman who said this health care bill has awakened a sleeping giant.  Where was she during the last 8 years in a coma?  Where were all these people…

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08.07.2009 6:58 pm

Justifications for our giant war machine

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Read in the news  that violent deaths in Iraq fell since US handover, reinforcing what so many of us have known. That the occupation by US forces in Middle East countries perpetuates violence and violent response to that occupation. This…

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08.07.2009 6:56 pm

A lesson in pragmatism

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    While campaigning for the presidency, Barack Obama vehemently and vociferously excoriated the Bush Administration for its draconian war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, promising a change in course if he won the election.
    Well, almost seven months into his administration, things are not all working…
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07.08.2009 5:18 pm

True heroes went unrecognized while we fawned over Jackson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As a veteran and a citizen of the United States, a couple of events this week have me concerned. While we, as a nation, were celebrating our independence on July 4th, our fearless leader, President Obama, was in Russia. Then,…

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06.26.2009 5:56 pm

Iran’s post-election unrest is all Bush’s fault

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Iranian reformers refuse to give up.  There yearning for freedom will not go away as long as their neighbor Iraq  enjoys democracy.  Because of the Bush administration giving hope and finally democracy to Iraq, the desire for democracy is…

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05.28.2009 6:05 pm

Closing Guantanamo is a big mistake

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    In his zeal to close Guantanamo by January, 2010, and to transfer many of its detainees to highly secure prisons in the U.S., President Obama is making a grave mistake. Contrary to Obama’s assertion that such a move would in no way…
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05.26.2009 6:05 pm

There is no reason not to release innocent detainees now held at Guantanamo

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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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05.13.2009 5:56 pm

Did Catholics protest the Iraq War?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 am appalled at the “Catholic” uproar over President Obama’s visit to Notre Dame to deliver a speech at commencement.  Where were these “Catholic” protests over George W Bush’s trumped up war in Iraq when no WMDs were found, and innocent civilians…

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04.29.2009 5:07 pm

Iraq and bigger federal government both are out of line

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bill Davis wrote a letter to the editor “using a crisis” critical of Charles Krautham men’s column “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” The jest of the other Bill Davis’s letter was Bush used the 9-11 crisis to…

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