[Peace-discuss] letter to The Paper

[Ricky Baldwin]

[Folks, I picked up a copy of the latest issue
yesterday, and was so unexpectedly pissed off by Dan
Metz's column on page 3 that I wrote this.  I'll send
it this evening unless anyone wants to offer
constructive criticisms...]

Dear Editor:

In-between the name-calling, Dan Metz did manage some
real irony in his column (5/16) on the “President who
says what he means, means what he says,” etc.  Aside
from the naïve assumption that Bush is in charge, the
claim that the Administration is truthful is either a
cruel joke or willfully ignorant.

Maybe Metz hasn’t heard that the US 75th Exploitation
Task Force (the guys looking for Rumsfeld’s “weapons
of mass destruction”) are giving up and going home. 
Maybe he missed the fact that the UN inspectors found
nothing either, or that Washington’s star
witness/defector Iraqi Gen. Hussein Kamel, paraded as
proof of the weapons’ existence, went on to say that
the weapons had been destroyed.

By now it should be painfully obvious to anyone paying
attention that when this Administration announces, “We
have evidence...” that their “convictions” are
showing.

Again ironically, Metz mocks the “losers” and
“whiners” concerned about the Supreme Court’s
unprecedented selection of George W. Bush over the
candidate with the most votes.  Then he devotes nearly
a third of his column to “whining” about Miquel
Estrada’s failure to zip past the democratic process
and onto the federal bench.  Maybe the Republicans
should appeal this failure to the Supreme Court, too.

Of course, if “Judge Estrada might actually consider
the US Constitution a document to be paid attention
to,” as Metz says, it could mean trouble for the
Administration’s anti-Constitutional agenda of PATRIOT
Acts I and II, military tribunals, and the rest.

[P.S. BTW, it was only with supreme effort that I
resisted the urge to quote The Bush Dyslexicon at
length, but I sure wouldn't mind seeing others do it,
or something similar ;-)]

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