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January 31, 2008
Discuss Thursday's editorials
Virginia needs redistricting reform
A bipartisan package is advancing. What Virginia really needs is a nonpartisan reform to completely remove party interests from the process.
Against all odds, momentum for changing the extremely partisan method of drawing congressional and legislative districts in Virginia appears to be growing.
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A war without end or oversight
President Bush places himself above the law -- even ones he signed.
An honorable president would have the gumption to veto bills he found objectionable. But as Americans have learned by now, there is no room for honor in President Bush's Oval Office. He prefers chicanery in the form of "signing statements."
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Comments
[January 31, 2008 6:32 PM]
JoshAn editorial about the war that doesn't contain a whiff of details about our winning it, or the minuscule casualty trickle, or the vast reduction in sectarian violence. No. Because if you did talk about the implementation of the war or the surge, you would have no choice but to give President Bush the credit for being right while the Left was completely wrong.
So all you're left with is quoting the partisan empty suit Jim "The surge is quite obviously a failure" Webb. Wouldn't it make more sense to quote somebody who was right about the war?
[February 1, 2008 6:30 AM]
GaryAnd I just read this week that nine bodies without heads were found in Iraq. I'm sure the grieving loved ones of the 38 US Service men and women killed in January at least now look at it as a "minuscule casualty trickle," and just only 56% higher than December.
[February 1, 2008 7:57 AM]
HenryMeanwhile, over a thousand were murdered in the US in January and we never heard a peep. I'm sure the grieving loved ones would love to see some media attention to the overwhelming murder problem in the US. But I guess the media can't blame George Bush for the murder problem so it doesn't exist.
[February 1, 2008 9:25 AM]
JoshGary,
Ah, you must be listening to ABC news. Sherry Preston, the announcerette on the radio news said the same thing you're saying. Despite six straight months of casualty drops, culminating in a low of 23 in December, absolutely none of which we heard reported, Ms. Preston trumpeted the 38 casualties for January (the fourth lowest total of the war) as a "whopping 50% increase over December's total."
I guess for these networks and for you liberals, no amounting of slanting or twisting is too much when an anti-Bush political agenda is to be pursued.
[February 1, 2008 9:41 AM]
Blue JohnGlad to see that you finally admit the Bush Administration's culpability in Iraq Henry.
[February 1, 2008 3:04 PM]
GaryJosh,
You constantly slant and twist, and attempt to influence others, results to fit the right wing agenda. Sorry I was raised to read and form my opinion. The 9 beheaded bodies write-up was in our local paper; I often look at "Faces of the Fallen," where, incidentally, I counted 38 killed in Iraq for January. Although, it's none of your business I have not watched ABC News lately (I've never heard of Sherry Preston)or any other network news in I don't know when.
[February 1, 2008 3:15 PM]
GaryRoanoke Times you wrote, "He prefers chicanery in the form of "signing statements." I went to Dictionary.com to find for chicanery "trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry." Perfect. Chicanery is now I learn what we have had to put up with for 7 years. And, I must say I like the Webb comments at the end.
[February 1, 2008 4:40 PM]
HenryI noticed the terrorists used two mentally-disabled women in Iraq to light off a couple of suicide vests in a market, killing a bunch of people. It sounds like the terrorists are very active in Iraq. I'm glad Bush is hunting them whereever they operate. Those people deserve to be hunted and killed by our brave troops for what they did to those poor women.
[February 2, 2008 6:57 AM]
JoshPop Quiz:
The American Left condemned in the strongest of terms every one of the following except:
1) A law that allowed agents to monitor calls to and from terrorist suspects abroad.
2) The fact that three senior Al Queda terrorists were persuaded to give up information which ended up saving dozens, even hundreds of lives.
3) George Bush's use of the term "Islamic fascists" to describe the terrorists who kill innocent people.
4) Al Queda terrorists blowing up two mentally disabled women in order to kill other innocent people.
Correct answer: #4