hope in Seattle: Letters to the editor( excellent reading)

[jbfam4]

Seattle Times: Letters to the editor

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001597075_satlets23.html

How absolutely ironic to honor George W. Bush as an action figure ("Bush gets all dolled up in flight suit," Times, News, Aug. 13). The image is not from his days as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard. Instead of serving a tour in Vietnam, where pilots like John McCain were being shot down and being tortured, political preferences and family ties were used to get Bush into the National Guard (as with Yale). Apparently, he couldn't be bothered to show up for 12 to 18 months of his duty in the Air National Guard.

more....


Smaller than life

The mounting, continuing American death toll in Iraq shows his premature declaration was nothing but administration propaganda and 2004 campaign photo-op. The truth is President Bush was never a naval aviator. He was an AWOL Texas Air National Guard pilot trained to fly a decommissioned aircraft while courageous American pilots and soldiers were dying on the battlefields of Vietnam or suffering as prisoners of war.

Bush and his handlers are profoundly arrogant. They think putting on the clothes of a hero makes him one. To think KB Toys would dishonor the enormous sacrifice of generations of true war heroes by passing off this phony in the "costume" of men and women who actually put their lives on the line every day is appalling.

These letters will make your day....

[JohnyCanuck]

1. This one especially

(The last one on the page)

We should remember the lessons we learned about the Old West from Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne movies of the 1930s. Corruption was a favorite theme. The town's leading citizens often organized the posses and led them in the wrong direction to cover up the fact that they were the ringleaders of the local gang. It seems that Sheriff Bush has sent his posse after the bad guys in Afghanistan and Iraq to distract us from the fact that he is in cahoots with Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown & Root, two of the world's biggest claim jumpers.

"Dad burn it, Hoppy," Gabby Hayes would say. "Ya' mean all this time them varmints been leadin' us on a wild goose chase?" "That's right," Hoppy would say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. thanks

there is indeed hope that the country is starting to wake up...

Who knows? We might just have a regular revolt at the ballot box,
I hope....

[donco6]

3. My favorite line:

"I encourage KB Toys to choose a more appropriate way to depict Bush."

An orange jumpsuit, perhaps?