My LTTE re local pro-admin columnist's latest tripe

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They never print my shit (though I was featured once and also quoted another time in the Sunday business section), but I cc'd the idiot columnist. I tried, so what de faw?

re:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_reinhard/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1089892620143710.xml


Editor:

Strange, but whenever I read another column by David Reinhard, I wonder if I am simply reading yet another transcript of Karl Rove's latest fax to favored media pundits. Such has been the eerie synchronicity between your columnist's always-evolving case for war and that of the administration.

Reinhard bites hook, line, and sinker at the latest White House story-line regarding the disastrous war in Iraq: it was all the CIA's fault. He accepts without skepticism the partisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been disparaged by some of the committee's own members as nothing more than a smoke-screen for the administration's own mendacities in leading us into this unnecessary war. This war has claimed the lives of nearly 900 volunteer US service personnel thus far.

Reinhard would do well to listen to the words of acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin who said on CNN the other day that, "If there wasn't sufficient debate about these issues, it wasn't the fault of the people who prepared this report (the CIA's National Security Intelligence Estimate)."

Many esteemed public officials, including Earl Blumenauer and Ron Wyden, knew that the administration had not made even a minimal case for war, yet the supine press, an accepting public, and a largely uncritical Republican Congress and Senate, approved this unmitigated disaster of a war for which Americans and others continue to die needlessly.

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1. I don't even waste time with old Room Temperature anymore

I call Reinhard Room Temperature because that's about what I estimate his IQ to be.

Good letter, just the same. Reinhard pretends hard that the Phase 1 report is all there is to the Senate committee's investigation, and that Phase 2, which will focus on what the corrupt Bush administration did, is totally inconsequential.

But you're right, he's a dependable megaphone for every RNC blast fax.