My lttes got under someone's skin

[SSX]

I don't know which letter I wrote got to this person, but it did. May have been a cumulative thing. Of course I had to write a reply
( after letter)

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060417/OPINION03/604170323/1014/OPINION

Bush unfairly criticized

I am sick and tired of reading the ridiculous letters from Brian Essex. Doesn't he have a newspaper in Jackson he can write to?

Mr. Essex, no one except for you and the rest of your Democrat buddies have even thought about "nuking" Iran.

If you haven't noticed, there are a whole lot of these people out there called terrorists. And these people do not like Americans. They will do whatever they can to kill us.

Bush has a very tough job trying to protect this country, and you, from these people.

I think he's done a pretty good job considering there has not been another attack on this country since 9/11. Maybe you could quit bashing Bush and do something constructive.

If you have any better ideas on how to fight terrorism, why don't you run for president?

By the way, why don't you focus on something else besides Bush. If you haven't noticed, he's not going back in office in the next election. What good does it do to bash him everyday like you do?

I think you need a hobby.

Chris Lowe,

Purvis

My reply-
I hate to break it to Chris Lowe ("Bush unfairly criticized" letter of April 17) but it is not just me and my "democratic buddies" that fear George Bush nuking Iran. A number of news organizations, publications and journalists with proven track records are asking the same questions as I am and I have written letters to them also. One of the hopes is in bringing the plans to light is that the American people will see the folly in this idea and rise up against it through dissent, the contacting of legislators and the petitioning of the government, which are all within our rights as Americans.
I cannot disagree with you that most of my letters that have been printed are anti- Bush. I have a laser like focus in that regards. I believe if you have a problem you should confront it head on. He was the person in charge during 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, the CIA leaks, and the yet innumerable corruption problems rising out of the Republican controlled Congress. If I were not to go after the person at the top of the ladder whom would you suggest?
As far as ideas go to protect us from terrorists, I would remove our troops from the Middle East, where they are acting as flypaper and bring them home to protect us here. We have, by our presence there and our unflinching support of Israel, created the problems that we now are confronting. Terrorism was around long before Mr. Bush stepped into the scene and will be around long after. You can aggravate a problem or try to solve it. Mr. Bush has chosen the former. If foreign oil dependency is the problem, raise the fuel efficiency of all vehicles by 10 miles per gallon and that problem is solved.
If these ideas appeal to you, please note that I am old enough to run for President, so if you wish, you may write me in on your 2008 ballot.
And lastly, I hate to break it to you, but this is my hobby and also an avenue to preach to someone besides the choir. If I can help one person understand the problems that lie before us as citizens and assist them in making an informed decision then I have achieved my goal.

[Ezlivin]

1. Ask him if the ANTHRAX attack doesn't count as a terrorist attack post 911

Who did that attack? How come the Right never mentions that attack?

[NewJeffCT]

8. we're supposed to have forgotten about that

sssh, be quiet. move along please, nothing to see.

[Chulanowa]

2. Be careful

Your use of logic and cogent points might make his head implode. Moran he may be, but you don't need that on your conscience, right? :D

[Jigarotta]

3. that doofus said:

"I think he's done a pretty good job considering there has not been another attack on this country since 9/11."

when * has been attacking the country since the get go with his new rules to jam even more cash in his friend's jean pockets. That POS has attacked Everything internal, education, security, laws, constitution. etc ying yang.

guess some dolts think an 'attack' only means an Action Movie bomb scenario

[frylock]

12. i like how they've made that a benchmark of junior's alleged success..

the whole "I think he's done a pretty good job considering there has not been another attack on this country since 9/11" mindset. By those standards, Clinton should be a fucking god to these imbeciles.

[Jigarotta]

13. junior IS successful

look what he has done for the PNACers.

[SSX]

14. The "protecting us" mindset

is the greatest propaganda tool they have come up with. You have to know in your heart that if the terrorists wanted to attack us here they would. They have just not done it again. If the Bushco team had been thwarting attacks stateside, don't you know they would be falling all over themselves to leak it to Faux News.

[lapfog_1]

15. Kinda makes one wonder...

My explanation is that having Bush in office starting wars around the ME is EXACTLY what the terrorists want. Better for recruitment, better to radicalize the governments, better to destabilize the governments that are still our friends.

Or, jamming on my tinfoil for a second... it's simply more MIHOP. Bin Laden won't attack the US because he either doesn't have an order to do so (as of yet) OR he never really did in the first place.

[0007]

4. Very good reply to Chris Lowe. I would hope that his ignorance

would dissipate like a cloud in the sky. But freepers don't have the mentality to understand even when you paint a beautiful picture.

And you did indeed paint a beautiful picture.

[linazelle]

5. Very well done. nt

[tsuki]

6. In my day, if you felt threatened, you stepped up to the plate. The

problem with this country today is that most want the pResident to "protect" them.

It is not his job. The second amendment exists because Americans are expected to protect themselves. The President is to protect, defend and preserve the Constitution.

[NewJeffCT]

7. great reply

let us know if they print it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Excellent reply

Let us know if you get a response.

[Jade Fox]

10. Good work....

How does this guy know how many terrorists there are? For starters, terrorism is a tactic, not a group, and as a tactic its been used by a lot of people. That leaves Al Quaida, who BushCo is always claiming to have killed off 75% of them, or their second in command, or some claim meant to impress. Yet we still have to be constantly afraid, fork over all our money, not question anything the government does, close our eyes and pray the terra-ist don't git us!!

None of us really knows a damned thing about what BushCo is doing in the "war on terror".

[porphyrian]

11. Less than half of 1% of all people in the world are terrorists, Chris.

I guess Mr. Lowe thinks that's "a whole lot" of people.