How To Get Printed In The Strib
Here's a primer:
Dear Star-Tribune,
George W. Bush killed Vince Foster. Karl Rove has the Powerline guys in a room in his basement. The earth is flat, Al Franken is funny. Halliburton owns talk radio.
I am a former Carlson Republican.
It's the last sentence that guarantees you'll get printed.
It didn't hurt the guy who wrote this letter:
Being a member of the Minnesota Republican Party, this is hard to write, [I suspect editing with that previous clause - Ed.] but being a combat veteran requires me to. I would like to thank Sen. Dick Durbin for having the courage to stand up and demand that we close our prison in Guantanamo Bay.
Now that Colin Powell has left, there is no one in a leadership position in the Bush administration who has seen combat.
Huh-whah?
Guantanamo is combat?
And why is "seeing combat" a prerequisite for being in office? Does Mr. Glaser advocate a military dictatorship?
If they had, they would realize the lifetime of psychological trauma that is inflicted on our troops when they are required to chain prisoners to the floor -- leaving them in that position so long that they urinate and defecate on themselves. FBI reports tell how some prisoners left in that way have pulled their own hair out.
One wonders if the Strib printed this to make Republicans look dumb, or to attack the administration, or both. It serves all three purposes.
There are no "reports", just an email from one agent. The "chaining", hair-pulling, urine and defecation are presented without context (see my previous post today).
Years from now, American Marines, who volunteered to defend our country, will still be going to counseling, trying to get rid of the guilt of knowing that they were forced to engage in torture.
Years from now, I'll be getting help, knowing the money I wasted buying the Strib over the years.
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June 23, 2005 07:09 AM
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Since this was an "FBI report" isn't this a little specious? When would (outside of the X-Files) the FBI have jurisdiction in gitmo? If American intellegence would have to do with foreign combantants, wouldn't that be the CIA?
Posted by: billhedrick at June 23, 2005 09:06 AMI did some digging and there is no record of a James Glaser having any sort of affiliation with the GOP although he’s been writing political screeds up in Duluth (of the anti-Bush variety) for the Weekly Reader since at least back as far as 2001. You can read them if you like at his website or at Lew Rockwell.org:
http://www.jamesglaser.org/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/glaser/glaser-arch.html
Examples of some the articles he’s written since 9/11:
“George Bush's Hate Of Saddam, Transfers Directly To The Women And Children Of Iraq”
“Could George Bush Be The Antichrist?”
“Is George Bush Now Reading Mein Kampf?”
“And Just What Is So Wrong With Suicide Bombers?”
“America Is Now A Terrorist State”
“We Will Rape Your Women, Heck We Will Rape Our Women, But We Would Never Flush the Koran”
Fortunately for our side, he also wrote this one:
“Ramblings: I Am One Of The Seventy Five Percent Of Americans That Didn't Vote Republican”
Thank God for small favors.
Posted by: Thorley Winston at June 23, 2005 10:46 AMWhen I write to the Strib, what's the proper greeting?
Is it "Fellow Worker" or "Fellow Comrade?"
I don’t want to be culturally insensitive.
Posted by: RBMN at June 23, 2005 10:52 AMYou could have cherry-picked articles from my web page that were anti-Kerry too. Just because a Republican is not a Bush Republican, I suppose you want to drum them out of the party. I believe in being fiscally consertive and I believe in small government. I wish George Bush did. There was a FBI report on Gitmo, and now with five American's missing in Afghanistan, our treatment of prisoners becomes important. It is a shame some of your readers make fun of Veterans who have psychological problems from having to either torture people or be on guard when it happens. For that matter just being in the area and hearing the screams is hard on a soldier or Marine. Sincerely James Glaser
Posted by: James Glaser at July 2, 2005 05:05 PM