More pro-Mark Dayton letters in Star Tribune

Jan. 28, 2005

http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/5210939-2.html

Minnesota's senator takes on the president's mouthpiece

In response to the Jan. 27 letter writer who claimed Sen. Mark Dayton "disgraced" Minnesota with his vote against Condoleezza Rice's confirmation, it is Dr. Rice and the other planners of the bungled war in Iraq who have disgraced the United States.

I would like to thank Dayton for his vote and also for the courage to call Rice's actions by their real names instead of the usual euphemisms. Though obviously intelligent, Rice has lied about the war in Iraq and the reasons for going there. Why are we more angry about the people who point out the lies rather than the lies themselves?

I am proud that Minnesota has at least one senator who stands up for his convictions instead of just safeguarding his Washington political career.

Stacy Hannigan, Coon Rapids.

I don't know why the hallmark of the Bush administration is the pathological reward of failure as a means of ensuring future failure, but I do know that George W. Bush lied us into an unsustainable and unjustified war in Iraq, and that Condi Rice was his chief mouthpiece hawking his blood feud with Saddam Hussein.

Not only did Rice fail, as the national security adviser, to keep us safe on Sept. 11, 2001, she has consistently sought lying as a means of keeping the Bush administration solvent.

Thank you, Senator Dayton, for telling the truth about Rice and her lies.

Dan Brown, St. Paul.