http://www.cleveland.com/letters/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/113213712311790.xml&coll=2And not surprisingly, out of Duh-HIGH-AH???
I applaud The Plain Dealer for its refreshing and positive story in Saturday's edition about citizens in Iraq. In many ways, their lives are better than they were under Saddam Hussein's evil reign.
We are bombarded daily by negative news about Iraq. Many encouraging developments are happening in this fledgling democracy that we should be informed of but often are not.
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Those who constantly and relentlessly criticize, question and tear down our efforts are, in my opinion, close to treason. Whoever leaked the information on CIA detainment centers in foreign countries and the reporter who wrote the story, in my opinion, border on treason.
Only through unity and determination to fight terrorism will we succeed. We must never forget the pictures of our citizens jumping off of the Twin Towers in order to escape the unimaginable heat. We must never forget the images we've seen of innocent people being beheaded. We must never forget the carnage and suffering that these suicide bombers have wrought in Iraq and all over the world.
Let's stop all the bickering, which serves only to undermine our efforts, and with steely resolve work toward victory.
Gretchen Shipitalo
Novelty"Novelty", I assume, is the name of her Duh-HIGH-Ah city. I . . . just . . . MAN.
OK, far be it from me to hit you with a stark sledgehammer of reality, stupid, but here's the problem I have with all of this.
My friend just returned from Iraq after a 7 month stay. His unit lost 20-some men in a period of 48 hours, mostly from roadside bombs/IEDs. I talked to him for 2 hours last week. Some of the wonderful and positive memories he has to keep with him for the rest of his life are:
* having to clean up the grisly aftermath of said IED that killed three of those men . . . with sandwich bags.
* witnessing multiple deaths of Iraqis and soldiers, some of whom were his friends he fought side-by-side with in this and the last tour.
* seeing a tank get toppled on its side due to explosives.
* being exposed to hostile fire and mortars nearly every day, including having sharp mortar shrapnel whiz inches from his head, embedding itself in a nearby wall.
* assisting to the wounded in medical. The shit he described in detail makes you sick.
* Dead children. Dead babies. EVERYwhere, every month.
* so many close calls, no amount of drugs will stop the nightmares he's going to have later on.
This is great news? This is the arena of democracy that people of your ilk consider an ideal??
FUCK OFF and smell the coffee, asshole. Real people are DYING because of your hero and the rich black-suited voevods orchestrating this carnage. But please, don't worry your beautiful apeshit-caked mind over this. Just go 'bout yer shopping, drool lobotomized in front of shitbags like Brian Kilmeade and Brit Hume and continue Super-gluing your lobotomy scar shut, so's not to let too mucha that there "truth" in.
I could send this bit of "negative news" to Alex Machaskee's right-championing rag, but the odds of him printing it are about as long as those of the Browns winning a Super Bowl in the next five years. Jesus CHRIST.