Correspondence
Correspondence SWOON-PROOF VERMONT DAVID TELL WRITES ("Swooning for Howard Dean," April 14) that "Dean remains popular back home for the most part." This is not necessarily true. According to a...
...Iraq should repudiate Saddam's debts...
...HARRY B. OESMAN Del Mar, CA SAVING PRIVATE FLIPPER AS A FORMER Navy lieutenant junior grade and surface warfare officer who deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 1998, now working for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PET A), I understand fully the need to protect the safety of our troops...
...The U.S...
...it makes one wonder whether in sending American democracy to iraq, he does not intend to exile it there...
...DAVID KEPPEL Bloomington, IN DEFINING DEBT I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE with Irwin M. Stelzer's prescription for dealing with Iraq's debts ("Forgive Them His Debts," April 21...
...LIBBY STERNBERG Rutland, VT DISSENTERS, NOT TRAITORS WILLIAM KRISTOL ("The War for Liberalism," April 7) asserts that the "Dominique de Villepin" American left hates John Ashcroft so much that we hope terrorism will succeed...
...One of PETA's staffers, Ravi Chand, is a Marine Reservist in Iraq, and we want him to come back safely...
...As we are not asking for a reimbursement for the cost of the war, it is an honorable compensation for the lives and money we have spent...
...Let's just say that they owe it to us to give our entrepreneurs a first right of refusal on future business...
...By neglecting climate change and global poverty, it invites a century of strife...
...and British companies—to the extent that they can provide goods and services at competitive prices...
...Kristol also implies we leftists "hate" (his word) Donald Rumsfeld and conservatives so much that we support saddam Hussein...
...We should encourage the new Iraqi government to deal with U.S...
...Kristol's Manichaean terms virtually brand dissent as treason...
...our real fear is not that the Bush administration will triumph over a repulsive petty tyrant who is the enemy of convenience, but that it will fail even to combat our true enemies...
...With today's technology, there are far more effective ways of detecting mines and chemical weapons than using dolphins, one of whom went AWoL within hours of his "deployment...
...it's ridiculous to continue to depend on animals...
...We have the most advanced military in the world...
...They are very much like civilians caught in the crossfire, and it is wrong to deliberately put those who are at our mercy in harm's way...
...You would think liberal Vermont would automatically choose the Democrat, and certainly one who had won election so many times with hefty margins of victory...
...government should encourage the interim iraqi administration to do so...
...It is only fitting that neither Russia, France, Germany, China, nor any other country that aided and abetted Saddam's crimes should now profit from the salubrious circumstances that we, with our blood and treasure, have made possible...
...our soldiers deserve the best defense...
...We know well that another terrorist tragedy would give the enemies of civil liberties their perfect pretext...
...Animals know nothing of al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein...
...But the results were: Bush 46 percent, Dean 34 percent, and 20 percent undecided...
...Liberals—and conservatives—who do not share the left's views should reject this rhetoric of coercion...
...The poll is available at http://rutlandherald.ny-bor.com/avermontpoll/october2002.html...
...Privatize the economy and let a thousand enterprises bloom, so that the energies of a newly freed people will enable them to enjoy the fruits of a free economy, thereby (in time) replenishing iraq's treasury...
...By abandoning arms control and non-proliferation, the administration guarantees the spread of weapons of mass destruction, no matter how many "rogues" it invades...
...By scorning international law, it incites generalized lawlessness and terrorism...
...But the answer does not lie in putting innocent animals in danger in shark-infested, mine-filled waters ("Flipper Goes to War," The Scrapbook, April 7...
...It's time Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave the animals an honorable discharge...
...when asked if they approved or disapproved of Howard Dean running for president in 2004, only 38 percent approved, while 49 percent disapproved, and 13 percent were unsure...
...According to a fall 2002 poll sponsored by the Rutland Herald/Times Argus newspapers, Vermonters have mixed feelings about their former governor...
...WILLIAM RIVAS-RIVAS Norfolk, VA...
...if the 2004 presidential election were held today, who would Vermonters vote for if the choice were between Howard Dean, the Democrat, and George W. Bush, the Republican...
...Kristol attributes to us not only heartless malice but also unpardonable stupidity...
Vol. 8 • April 2003 • No. 32
