Morning Joe

Joe & Co.,

I turned to your station this morning, as I normally do during my morning channel surfing, to find you and your co-hosts proclaiming that MoveOn.org’s ad questioning General Betrayus’s testimony was politically damaging for the Democrats. This does not compute. Before General Betrayus’s testimony, a majority of Americans believed he was going to lie. After his testimony, even a larger majority of people thought he lied. If anything, it appears the ad alerted people to pay closer attention to what was being said and not said. Now that more people are siding with the Democrats, how is this politically damaging for them?

So what if the Democrats are now unable to bring the dialogue back to bringing the troops home? To date, the Democrats have been nothing short of pathetic on this matter anyway. They seem to be politically neutered and dimwittedly compliant to the minority party. So, to expect them to take the lead on any dialogue, or have any positive outcomes as a result of them, would be overly optimistic. Thank goodness for MoveOn’s ad. Those of us who want to end this occupation hope the facts speak louder than a treasonous General (or a lame Democratic Congress) who cannot even say if Iraq is making us safer, but is willing to fabricate figures that help threaten the safety of his own troops by prolonging this fiasco.

Americans, true Americans, believe that dissenters have a right to express themselves. The facts are the facts. Iraq is too important to be minimized into deciding political matters on drivel, as Republicans seem apt to do. Lastly, to hold the military to a different standard than the rest of us is idolatry at its worst. Yes, Americans should revere those who would fight and die for us, but they should not allow the military’s sacrifices to be a shield against scrutiny. No man is above assessment. And your panel’s condescending attitude toward being critical of a sitting General is unacceptable and un-American. It is this type of thinking (Colin Powell) that got us into this quagmire we call Iraq.


Sincerely,