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6.9.06 @ 12:01AM

NO RAISINS TODAY
Re: John Tabin's End of the Beginning and James G. Poulos's Requiem for a Nightmare:

Zarqawi gets his 70 white raisins in Hell. The Iraq government is complete and functioning. The U.S.S. Cole is repaired and returned to active duty in the Middle East. All at the same time! It's a bad day for the New York Times.
-- Craig C. Sarver
Behind Enemy Lines, Seattle, Washington

I looked out a front window and saw that the street was empty. I recalled that dread day almost five years ago, and this struck me as wrong. So, returning the compliment and despite the absence of television cameras, I walked out to the end of my driveway and danced. Next, I think I'll raise a glass in honor of Zarqawi finally meeting his 72 Virginians.

And what an informative pile of rubble he no doubt left. Carry on! No "agonizing reappraisal" today, Ben.
-- Stephen Foulard
Houston, Texas

James Poulos does a superb job in evaluating the horror which was the now-late and unlamented Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. This monstrous murderer has now rightfully been exterminated with due and extreme prejudice.

And while I enjoyed the Spectator emblazoning the top of its Web page with this sub-human's picture and the words "SO LONG, SUCKER!" a more appropriate title could have been, "AND NOW, INTRODUCING THE NEWEST RESIDENT OF HELL!..."
-- Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio

The most amazing thing to me about the raid that killed Zarqawi is that the U.S. and Iraqi militaries were able to pull it off before Dana Priest and James Risen could warn him.
-- Paul Schlick
Maple Grove, Minnesota

Booyah! Woo-hoo! Swoosh!
-- Mark Stewart
Jacksonville, Florida

ALL THE RAGE
Re: Eric Peters's Intermittenly Explosive Commuting:

The interns at the National Institutes for Mental Health don't have enough to do, it seems. "Intermittent Explosive Disorder"? I bet it took some brain trust hours to come up with that.

The woman in the car ahead of me the other day who turned her head to speak to her passenger just before the light turned green was treated to a short blast from my horn when she didn't get off the dime when the light did turn green. She probably felt she was subjected to a manifestation of IED. Fine. It did give me a nice shot of serotonin, though. I got traffic moving. I was at peace. Dare I say that I felt empowered?

Perhaps NMIH is putting the cart before the horse. Maybe we just need a good episode of IED to get our daily dose.
-- Evelyn Leinbach
Colorado

Mr. Peters has missed the point completely in his article. It's a little more involved that living closer to work, satellite radio, or anything else like that. We all know what the real problem in this nation is, why people are so stressed. Road rage is merely a symptom of something a lot more serious. The cure starts with a belief in a Divine Being, an acceptance of a biblical set of rules for living, and an adherence to having morally righteous people as leaders. From there, it becomes easier to cure what is wrong today.
-- Pete Chagnon

Since 1960, the total length of roads has been doubling every 261 years while the U.S. population has been doubling every 113 years. Yet, the Eco-Freaks would have everyone believe that we are paving over the world. I suspect that the answer to congestion relief is to get rid of traffic engineering advice from the Sierra Club.
-- Danny L. Newton
Cookeville, Tennessee

Before George Bush once more opens his mouth about immigration, and blithely proposes to allow in tens of millions of immigrants in the next few decades -- so-called "guest workers" who, no matter what he says, will not soon or easily be headed back down the trail south once they get here -- he would do well one of these workday mornings to skip the exercise routine, bag the Secret Service and the presidential motorcade, jump in a rent-a-car, and spend a couple of hours just tooling around the Washington Beltway during A.M. rush hour.
-- Chuck Vail

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