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...in the paper. The names have been changed pending publication. Whaddya think? Was I too hard on the guy?
"Mr. Daniel John Wing-nut’s insolent response (How Sept. 11 attacks might have actually been prevented) to my September 15th letter is incomprehensible. Mr. Wing-nut resorts to vitriolic rhetoric and goes too far when he claims that yours truly would “make a worthy successor to the Iraqi Minister of Information”. I have never met Mr. Wing-nut, yet he somehow feels justified with his unprovoked ad hominem attack. For the record, I’m a United States Navy Veteran, honorably discharged. I served my country with dignity and diligence working on the flight deck of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. I also served my country as a NASA Engineer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, which requires the kind of credibility, and security clearance, that I could never have received had I been in line for the position of Iraqi Minister of Information.
Mr. Wing-nut then goes on to reference a claim by David Rose of Vanity Fair, a fashion magazine not noted for its political insight. An internet search on Mr. Rose turns up little. No bio exists for Rose. He’s a journalist who has never published a book, only a handful of articles for Vanity Fair and the like. Mr. Wing-nut’s letter contained the following quote from Rose, “Sudanese intelligence offered Clinton information …. about bin Laden,… but Clinton wasn't interested.” Mr. Wing-nut also quotes Fox News analyst Mansoor Ijaz, an admitted favorite of oxy-contin addict Rush Limbaugh who has referenced Ijaz many times. Ijaz reports that, “Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, eager to have terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, even offered the extradition and arrest of bin Laden. Again, Clinton wasn't interested.”
Would this be the same President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir who was placed into power by an unlawful coup and installed an Islamic Fundamentalist government? President Bashir admittedly knew and respected bin Laden and supported Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. Bashir is also responsible for the slaughter of nearly 2 million Sudanese citizens, mostly Christians who opposed his fascist government. Wing-nut solicits the readers of the Star to believe that President Clinton should have cooperated with Bashir and his cabal in the Sudanese Intelligence Office. Why?
I understand the need of the Far-Right to misrepresent the 8 years of the greatest period of growth and prosperity in the history of the United States. I can even note many instances where this Progressive Left-Winger disagreed with the policies of then President Clinton. NAFTA comes immediately to mind. But let’s agree to try and keep the name-calling and duplicitous insinuations to a minimum. Shall we?"
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