I had my
second LTE published in the Star Tribune today. I wrote it in reply to a
typical Bush Republican letter bashing liberals and feminists for not cheerleading enough on Iraq.
Sentenced to terror
Antiwar demonstrators and the elite media would have us allow dictators such as Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Kim Jong-il and others to maintain their reign of terror over their people.
America -- which has always been inclined to help these people who have forever been abused and killed -- will be afraid to lend a hand and bring them freedom.
Is this what the war protesters and feminists want?
My rebuttal below.
I used a reply that many here know well: Republican reaction to President Clinton liberating Kosovo.
WAR PROTESTERS
Remember Kosovo
A March 23 letter writer said that "Antiwar demonstrators and the elite media" would not have let Slobodan Milosevic be overthrown.
I agree. Those lilly-livered liberals like Sens. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., Richard Lugar, R-Ind., Trent Lott, R-Miss.; Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Gov. George W. Bush, R-Texas, and Fox News talk-show host Sean Hannity should be ashamed for speaking out against bringing freedom to the citizens of Kosovo, stopping the genocide taking place there, aiding the removal of a tyrant and failing to support our troops and the president in a time of war.
SCOTT GRAUPNER, WABASHA, MINN.
My letter was slighly edited, but only for punctuation, abbreviations of the states, minor stuff like that.
I didn't address the feminist part of the original letter because I haven't figured out why feminists would be against helping people.
But I love when Republicans rattle off lists like this because it's so easy, once they get to Milosevic, to reveal them for the giant hypocrites they are.
If you're interested, my first (and less snarky) STRIB letter is diaried here.
If you are also interested in the unedited version, let me know in the comments and I'll throw it in. But the edits really are minor.