can i get heLp with a LTTE?

[sniffa]

pLease give your critique, suggestions, affirmation, etc..
unLike past rants i've sent, this one i actuaLLy want printed.
aLso, wiLL joe average know what i'm taLking about?

it'LL be much apprciated. :)


Rove Plays Politics With National Security

Senior White House Advisor Karl Rove has put our nation's security
in jeopardy by revealing the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert
agent investigating weapons of mass destruction programs and
proliferation. It is astonishing that a person so close to our
president could disregard our homeland security (as well as the
security of our closest allies) in an effort to achieve political
retribution on Plame's husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for his
(now proven correct) rebuke of the Iraqi-Nigerian yellowcake claim
in the build up to the Iraq War. I can only hope President Bush is a
man who puts our nation's security ahead of politics, and rids his
administration of Rove and any others who would betray our country
for political gain.

[ET Awful]

1. Holy crap, I thought I'd never see the day . . . .

sniffa typed a lowercase "l".

WOW! :)

Looks good to me actually, I can't think of anything I'd change. I'm guessing you're sending that to the Globe, we all know the Herald won't publish it unless it involves kissing Bush ass.

[sniffa]

7. shhh don't teLL anyone

:P

i'm gonna send it to the gLobe, heraLd and the metro.

if it's good enough for migueL guanipa, it's good enough for me.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. excellent baby!

short, sweet, and to the point. One lil typo on 'jeopardy". mwah! :loveya:

[sniffa]

6. edited

mwah :loveya:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Very well written

I think it would even cause some conservatives down here in Arkansas to take pause-they are big at protecting security.

[sniffa]

8. that's what i was going for

it was hard refering to * too. x(

[yewberry]

4. Hiya

You might want to rethink "rebuke." It's most commonly used to mean "reprimand."

Good letter--good luck!

[sniffa]

9. do you have a better word?

rebuttaL?

[yewberry]

13. The precise word

is probably refutation, but that just doesn't flow, does it?

Or repudiation.

[terrya]

5. It's concise, well thought out, well written. IMO...send it.

:thumbsup:

[sniffa]

10. thanks terry

:hi:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. I like the way you framed it

That's how I try and word my LTTE, also. I find you have better luck making people stop and think if you don't bash them in the head first.

I like it sniffa, good work!

[jonnyblitz]

12. short, sweet and to the point.

send it. :hi:

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. Excellent. I'd modify it only slightly

Here's yours:
Rove Plays Politics With National Security

Senior White House Advisor Karl Rove has put our nation's security
in jeapordy by revealing the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert
agent investigating weapons of mass destruction programs and
proliferation. It is astonishing that a person so close to our
president could disregard our homeland security, as well as the
security of our closest allies, in an effort to achieve political
retribution on Plame's husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for his
(now proven correct) rebuke of the Iraqi-Nigerian yellowcake claim
in the build up to the Iraq War. I can only hope President Bush is a
man who puts our nation's security ahead of politics, and rids his
administration of Rove and any others who would betray our country
for political gain.

I'd just change it to read this way:
Rove Plays Politics With National Security

Senior White House Advisor Karl Rove put our nation's security
in jeopardy when he revealed the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert
agent investigating weapons of mass destruction programs and
proliferation. It is astonishing that a person so close to our
president could disregard our homeland security, as well as the
security of our closest allies, for little more than revenge on Plame's husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for his
(now proved correct) rebuke of the Iraqi-Nigerian yellowcake claim
in the build up to the Iraq War. We should all be able to trust that President Bush is a man who would put our nation's security ahead of politics, and rid his administration of Rove and any others who would betray our country for political gain.


Just suggesting being a little more definitive and forceful. Otherwise, a superb letter.

Edited again to change "retribution" to "Revenge".

Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?

[bettyellen]

15. oh, you're sooo fucking cute when you're all riled up....

:loveya:

[sniffa]

16. eek

:blush:

:loveya:

i just sent it to the boston papers. :bounce:

i was debating whether to send it to "the piLot" though.

[bettyellen]

17. why eeek?

do it do it do it do it do it.
have i broken you down yet?

send it to some national papers too. even if they don't publish it, they'll be a little more likely to publish another one.
:*

[sniffa]

21. i sent it to the boston ones

usatoday then? time?

and i said, 'eek' because you make me bashfuL.

[bettyellen]

22. well, i dreamed i was snow white once....

and my bashful wasn't nearly as cute as you. i wish i could do that one over now.

usatoday + time + ny +La times, CNN
carpetbomb them, they'll take it into account when deiciding they are reflecting their readership. :*

[johnnie]

18. "President Bush"

It even made me ill cutting and pasting it. Did ya shower after typing that out?
Looks good to me man. Send it on. :thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

19. Send it. Good job.

Although without the capital 'L's' I found it very difficult to read.


:loveya:

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Good! Here's mine (Doin' it for the activist corps) Is it ok?

There are many questions surrounding the issue of who blew CIA agent Valerie Plame’s cover in retaliation for her husband, Ambassador Wilson, revealing as forgeries the Niger yellowcake uranium documents that provided "proof" for pushing forward with the Iraq war.

For example, are these forgeries what was meant by the Downing Street memo which stated that the “intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of going to war in Iraq?

Who authorized the revelation of Ambassador Wilson’s wife as an undercover weapons of mass destruction operative for the CIA, thus putting her mission and dozens of other operatives at risk?

Why did former Attorney General Ashcroft remove himself from the leak investigation?

If the leak indeed came from a member or members of his staff will President Bush, who promised honor and integrity in the White House, stand by his word and “deal” with the person who created the leak as he promised way back in 2003?

And why is the White House changing its story from “it’s ridiculous” to think that Karl Rove is involved in the leak, that they’ve “made it very clear, he was not involved, that there's no truth to the suggestion that he was” to “This is an ongoing investigation at this point. The president directed the White House to cooperate fully with the investigation, and as part of cooperating fully with the investigation, that means we're not going to be commenting on it while it is ongoing.” Have they been hiding something for two years, or does President Bush have so little control over what his staff does, including Karl Rove, a man his own father once fired for leaking a negative story about Bush supporter Robert Mosbacher to none other than columnist Bob Novak, who features in the Plame story as well?