Dear Editor:
Kudos to James Campbell on Political Dribble and thank you to the Daily Courier for publishing it in Democratic Fayette County. I no longer live there, but I'm sure it still is.
Mr. Campbell's points were well thought out and very true. Just think that if all the people that were leaving if Bush was elected had actually gone, how great things would be. The vocal minority (with all the money) do not realize that they are tearing this country apart faster and worse than Vietnam in a much shorter time.
The prison scandal was such a joke. We really embarrassed a whole culture by putting underwear on their heads and stacking them naked in a pile. Maybe we should have beheaded them and put them in a pile and no one could have seen their faces.
People need to look up war in the dictionary and read the definition. I think Churchill said "War is hell." Figure out what that means.
Why isn't the news media interviewing Iraqi's in this country that escaped torture and get their opinions on the prison scandal⢠Better yet, form an American Iraqi MP unit and send them to guard the POWs. I'll bet that would be interesting. What would Muslims say then?
Our problem in the world is that we are civilized. Since we're in Iraq and they want Saddam justice, we should give it to them. All we would need is some former prisoners, a machete and a blindfold.
Every great civilization has been destroyed internally. People need to look around. There are no bibles in the schools, but they are allowed in the prisons. Criminals have more rights than hard-working, decent people. Immigrants don't have to learn English, but we have to make every effort to appease them. A pregnant illegal alien can have a child here and we'll pay for it, but they can't be deported because the baby is a U.S. citizen. On and on and on.
The politicians and their pork barrel spending to get re-elected could be better used instead to help the war effort. Spending it on inane and asinine projects is ridiculous and wasteful. If all the politicians would have refused the tax cut and returned the money, it would have been the right thing to do. Since they said it would only benefit the rich, it benefited them, so why didn't they return it?
Last -- for all you Kerry supporters out there that say about the war, " I didn't start this war and it shouldn't be my responsibility to get us out of it," leave Bush and Rumsfeld finish it.
Ron LaPorte,
Roxana, Del.
