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7.30.04 @ 12:01AM

SPACE CADET
Re: Shawn Macomber's Hall of Kerry:

The gallery is, not surprisingly, incomplete. Where's the picture of Kerry in the space suit crawling out of a tube (and looking, for all the world, like The Human Cannonball, or one of the personified sperm cells from Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex")?

Why is it that every Democratic convention so closely resembles a Bosch painting come to life? What an amazing collection of political monsters; and what a fate awaits the rest of us if they are victorious.
-- David Carter

On the subject of Senator Kerry's war experience I believe H.L Mencken put it best: "The most grasping of all politicians is the war veteran."

Perhaps someone should make the Honourable Senator from Massachusetts aware.
-- S. Buyers
Potgietersrus, South Africa

OK, it's time to pin the tail on the donkey (so to speak), or at least a truly appropriate name on the Candidate.

If it is really true that John Kerry made home movies of Himself reenacting His Heroism while in Vietnam (He served in Vietnam? Who knew!) the only possible name for him is Miles Gloriosus, the stock character from Roman comedy recreated for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". All the better, this name comes with its own campaign song:

"I, Miles Gloriosus,
I, slaughterer of thousands..."

Didn't Kerry testify that He had Himself committed War Crimes in Vietnam? Did He reenact those for his own camera?
-- Jim Stevenson
San Diego, California

MATTERS OF STATE
Re: Jacob Laksin's Confronting Iran:

Jacob Laksin's article "Confronting Iran" completely misses the point. Perhaps he should write for the New Yorker or for the Democrats.

He seems surprised when the State Department recommends more diplomacy. Don't they always? "Engagement" is what diplomats do. Does he remember the Lusitania? Or the invasion of Poland? Vietnam? Lebanon? Tehran? Etc. It takes leadership to go to solve problems, not bureaucrats.

It seems Mr. Laksin thinks the U.S. has unlimited power to go everywhere at once. We neither posses the military or political power to do all we wish.

The point is that President Bush is trying to get the U.N, i.e. the world, to actually do something constructive. Before we can act; he must first demonstrate that the U.N. Security Council is failing in its mission, that there is a threat to the world, and there is no more time to waste. Also, it must be proven that military action is the solution, so the world will support us. Otherwise we will unite the Muslim world against us.

Therefore, before the problem of Iran, North Korea, and China can be solved, Iraq must prevail.

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