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'Twas the Night Before

12.23.05 @ 12:01AM

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I am sure the military men and women are sleeping so much better knowing that if their body is ripped apart to-morrow that the one who planted the road side bomb won't be tortured if he is caught. It must really build up their pride to be put in the same class as Nazi by Durbin and terrorists by Kerry. With all this backing how can they come up short of their goals.

Let's cut and run, turn Iraq over to the terrorists, with Iran and Syria's help, make a killing field out of Iraq until they are back in control. Now the oil fields and their profits can be used to buy weapons of mass murder, there is no shortage of countries that would be more than willing to sell them anything they need to carry out their plans. Once they are ready, how long would Israel last before they are a waste land? And then it would be America's turn, we can't drill in Alaska so our supply of oil would not last long with the terrorists in control of the oil supply.

The fighting would then move to the U.S., we would at this point have no help from the Dems, they would have moved to Canada by now crying Bush didn't protect them!

And now the Dems are over the top about the eavesdropping, are they afraid that just maybe some of their calls may be picked up and we might find out who some of them may be talking to and maybe who the N.Y. Times is paying for the secret info they are getting? We might even find out who the spies really are?
-- Cliff Gerald
Satellite Beach, Florida

AT WAR
Re: R.S. Hale's letter (under "Ben's New Job") in Reader Mail's Spokesman Stein and Ben Stein's A Patriot Acts:

Wow -- talk about condescending! Mr./Miss/Ms. Hale's letter to Ben Stein was a diatribe of left-wing BS.

So much to say about this. First of all, the Patriot Act and the NSA program that followed up on phone calls between terror suspects in the U.S. and overseas saved at least one major bridge in the U.S.: the Brooklyn Bridge.

Second of all, the president has a duty, an obligation -- he takes an oath, for God's sake -- to protect this country. And thank God that we have a president who actually takes that oath seriously. I shudder to think where we would be right now with a President Gore or Kerry -- two wimps who think only of themselves and have no sense of duty to their country, unless you define duty as bad-mouthing a president and the troops. Oh, but that's what letter-writer Hale defines as duty. A constant barrage of hate-filled speech directed at the president is not "asking questions, challenging the President," it borders on treason during a time of war. And that's the crux of the problem -- we have an opposition party who doesn't believe we're at war. Note to Democrats -- WE ARE AT WAR -- the president must take it seriously, especially since the opposition party does not.

I suggest the writer read the excellent article in the Weekly Standard by Mackubin Owens, a professor of national security at the Naval War College. You can find it here.

M. Hale should read the entire article, because whether he/she believes it or not, we are in a battle for the survival of this country, and Democrats better start taking it seriously. The rest of the country does.
-- Deborah Durkee
Marietta, Georgia

Regarding R.S. Hale's letter: He whines repeatedly about the poor little ACLU being equated with communism, and then asks if Ben would be offended were any right wing organization to be compared to Nazis. The temptation, of course, is to point out that conservatives and conservative organizations are routinely described as Nazis, not just equated with them.

However, I would tell Mr. Hale that he is welcome to condemn any conservative organization he might find that was founded by a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer. I myself would harbor a great deal of suspicion for such an organization. Which is precisely why so many harbor so much suspicion about the ACLU; because it was founded by a group of fellow traveling radicals and actual communists and its policies are not clearly different now than then.

When someone can defend his position he uses reasonable language and level headed argument. When someone is defending the indefensible every sentence ends in an exclamation point, wild haymakers are thrown at straw men and at the end the defender of the faith wraps himself in the flag and takes a martyr's bullet in the neck for his true, as opposed to Ben's counterfeit, patriotism.

The left is by and large a race of pygmies.
-- Brian Bonneau

CALLING ALL CHURCHILLS
Re: Paul Johnson's A Six-Course Feast:

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