Well-Trained Dogs
Every once in a while, when I start to wonder to myself how the Dog Trainer stays in business despite putting out such obviously biased tripe, I go and read a few letters from the dogs they train. As usual, today’s letters on Bush and Iraq did not disappoint. Sure, they got in a token reasonable letter by Carole Larcom of La Verne and some token snark John Waugen of Anaheim in the middle, but those letters were written in response to other letters that had run earlier. The other four were not. Here’s what those luminaries have to tell us:
- Phyllis Lilly of Ridgecrest didn’t like President Bush’s answers to the have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife questions posed by the media on Tuesday, concludes from this that he must be illiterate. She also plays the age card, as if to suggest anyone who has managed to stay alive for 73 whole years must be right. She seems to overplay her hand just a tad in that department, having prefaced her rant with “In my 73 years, I have never seen or heard such stumbling, bumbling ignorance by an American president.” Color me skeptical, but I have to doubt whether even the world’s most precocious one year old would have been able to discern “stumbling, bumbling ignorance” from sheer brilliance during the 1932 election (which, of course, was not televised).
- Henry Mendell of Los Angeles thinks the Phillipines are a U.S. colony, that the U.S. was the aggressor against Japan in World War II, and that it, not the Khmer Rouge, was responsible for murdering millions of Cambodians in the 1970s.
- Florence Brawer, also of Los Angeles, can’t figure out why Iraq’s material breach of numerous U.N. resolutions caused the U.S. to invade it rather than Saudi Arabia, which has violated none.
- Jan Hart of Anaheim wants us all to know that wars sometimes kill people.
April 16th, 2004 at 12:59 pm
Wars kill? Since when? I swear, if someone comes and tells me that water is wet, I’m done with this place. I’m moving to Antartica!!!!
April 17th, 2004 at 5:37 pm
To be fair, the Philippines *was* a US colony, and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ continued recognition of the Khmer Rouge regime until after 1990 – despite the fact that it was one of the most evil regimes in modern history *and* no longer controlled the country – was disgraceful.
April 17th, 2004 at 5:45 pm
Methinks you’re stretching the definition of “colony” just a tad. And formally recognizing an evil foreign regime is hardly the same thing as endorsing, let alone participating in, its actions.