Letters To The Editor

For four years, the Bush administration keeps on asking for more time, and a lot more money, to keep its failed war-of-choice going. It is always the same prediction, “in 12 to 18 months the Iraqis will be able to govern without us.” The truth is that we can not “win” this war. No “victory” is possible for us in Iraq, only continued shame.

Yet, Senator John McCain has a point when he says that leaving Iraq in retreat would be a disaster. So, what is the way out of this mess that Bush and Cheney put us in?

We should separate ourselves, our government, and our country, from the corrupt leaders who got us into this war through their deception and lies. We should prosecute these officials, who usurped our government, for being the war criminals that they are. Then we can leave Iraq in an orderly manner, with apologies for having confused Saddam Hussein with Osama bin Laden, and find redemption through bringing to justice the people who committed these war crimes in our name.

Between the Spring Equinox, March 21, and the Autumn Equinox, Sept. 23, days are longer and nights shorter. It makes sense to shift the “extra” morning daylight to the afternoon with daylight saving time (DST). Now, after the equinox, there is no extra daylight. DST sets our clocks for a later sunrise and darker mornings than standard time. Children have to walk to school as the rising sun glares into the eyes of sleepy
commuters. Extending DST to well past September is dangerous. In 2005, the Republican-controlled Congress extended DST until the first Sunday of November. Now we should change back to Standard Time.

Yours truly,

Bruce Joffe, Piedmont, CA

Dear Editor,

Yesterday, Sept.11, before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, General Petraeus stated in response to the question by Republican Senator Warner from Virginia as to whether the military efforts in Iraq made America safer that he did not know. In this one definitive moment of truth the military commander on the ground in Iraq sent by the President to justify to the Congress and America continuing this war, did not know the crutial answer . The man believed to have the integrity to justify continuation of this Bush fabricated war could not answer the vital question. The integrity of his previous actions as part of the war in Iraq instantaneously vanished. The reality became obvious, General Petraeus had not previously been able to be truthful with his troops, the American people nor himself all along and about all aspects of the war. Never again should the Democrats be accused of demoralizing America