Letters of the WeeQ

Let’s just start a list: Lies about the weapons of mass destruction, an illegal war and now civil chaos in Iraq, loss of our best in the military, bungled Katrina response, suppression of information and illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens, Medicare prescription-plan fiasco, encouraging nuclear capabilities in India while blacklisting other countries, attempting to “reclassify” information as classified to hinder research, etc.

Now tell me again why 26 percent of the country supports this man? Never in our history has there been such an accumulation of disasters both in this country and worldwide created by a U.S. president.
— Diane Lansink, Cedar Falls.

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Richard Doak is discovering who the enemy is in the war on terror in “What If Gitmo Detainees Aren’t Really Terrorists?” (March 5 column). Libertarians (yes, the party kept out of the gubernatorial debates in 2002) have known that all along.

As our benevolent dictatorship creates enemies worldwide in its phony quest of the “evil-doers,” we will discover that once the line between defense and offense is crossed, anyone can become the enemy of the state.

But Doak still doesn’t get it. It’s not this administration. Democrats and Republicans both voted for the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. And most of them didn’t read the bills first.

When people can be held without being charged or tried, our own government is the enemy.
— Fritz Groszkruger, Dumont.

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