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4.18.06 @ 12:01AM

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But there's a lesson to be learned by anyone who's never watched the proverbial snake oil salesman in action -- this guy is in it for an easy financial windfall.

Damn, it's almost funny. Almost.
-- Brandt

Yes, yes, yes... I am all for keeping the Republican Majority in the Senate, but I wish to do it with all NEW Republican senators.

I, for one, am tired of working, contributing and voting only to have the little illegitimates forget who put them there the moment they see their new offices in D.C.!

I have discovered that once ensconced a "wonderful transformation" takes place: They become Statesmen -- if only in their own small minds. What a mess. I am so disgusted.
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

Only an idiot would back Colin Powell for President. However brave he may have been as a soldier, he is a political chicken. The Republicans already have enough political cowards, including half of their U.S. Senators. They don't need any more.

The minute the going got tough, Powell would fold like a card table.
-- Raymundo Aleman
San Antonio, Texas

I wish someone would point out that with the exception of Zinni, the rest are retired light generals. While it may be unfair to characterize them all as pass-overs, that is what they are. While working with a civilian contractor that hired many retired military officers, I was amazed by the lack of initiative of some of the retired officers; some of them were just plain lazy. I worked with only one lieutenant general, and he was embittered by being past over. The worst were the light colonels whose egos self-promoted them to generals. All seem to be cheap shot artists, criticizing their fellow retirees. Most of the officers were in charge of training local non-English speaking recruits. Most had not formalized plans, shunned measurement of training progress. I have been amazed by the fighting ability of our armed forces, considering some of officers I have known. In my observations, thank god for sergeants.
-- Ken Yamashiro
Alpine, California

TO SPITE THEIR FACES
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s A Cautionary Tale:

You were spot on about the press in "A Cautionary Tale." I just don't understand how the left and the press in general can be so disinterested in who wins in the WOT. They behave as if they've no stakes in the struggle even when their own reporters often have suffered beheadings for merely visiting areas occupied by these reactionary Islamic nut jobs. With this mindset, it's no wonder so many Democrats and liberals admire the French and Germans who have always been comfortable cozying up to dictators when it suited their comfort. That admiration allows our liberals and Democrats to feel they're superior, that they can just naturally ignore the tough choices and live in a world where there are no tradeoffs in decision making, and that they can pretend that there are no real threats greater than George Bush. Pretending isn't responsible behavior for adults. Ignoring reality isn't either.

But I'm amazed at the left's incipient lining up to argue that a war with Iran would be worse than an Iran with nuclear weapons. It seems they'll even betray every progressive policy and pose they purport to believe in just to get at Bush and the good ol' USA. This is how badly they want power; they'll even undermine our defense and allow lunatics to have nuclear weapons if it serves their partisan goals. Like today's celebrities, the Democrats and the MSM press that carries their water have no self-awareness or shame.
-- Chuck Fowler

RELIGIOUS LOATHING
Re: Patrick O'Hannigan's Why I Won't Stop Going to Church:

Is this the same church that burned perhaps tens of thousands of women as witches? We know that witches don't exist, don't we? Is this the same church that wiped out the Cathars in medieval France? Is this the same church that looked suspiciously on even Jews who converted to Catholicism in Avila, Spain! Jesus' teachings just didn't survive the fact of there being no second coming.

As for the road taken by Paul, and his conversion, and then traveling evangelism, to paraphrase an eternal skeptic, when Paul saw the head of a heretic he cracked it at once, even though the heretic might be a neighbor!

To think that from a simple philosophy of good will between men, friendliness, and decency we get the wars of popes, the pretensions of bishops, and this vast money grubbing enterprise known as the Catholic Church is laughable and a hoax.
-- Edward Del Colle

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