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January issue looked great! Sign me up for a subscription

   I just read the January issue, and I think that I would indeed like to be put on the mailing list. I specifically liked Heidi's views on Brokeback Mountain. Although I disagree with her on some aspects, that is to be expected. I am not her after all.

Russ Martin
Seattle


Bush Junior is not as horrible as Joe Sobran makes him out to be

Mr. Sobran:

   There is much that I do not like of Bush II, but your rant in Liberty Watch is way over the top, specifically on the invasion of Iraq. It was a necessary step to prevent the future use of Iraq as a base for future training of terrorists and attacks against the United States. In fact, I consider it brilliant for Bush to have moved the main theater of the war against terrorism from inaccessible Afghanistan to the more suitable Iraq (for U.S. forces).
   You seem to totally discount the Duelfer Report that clearly states that Saddam was close to resuming his WMD program after throwing out the United Nations inspectors (which came thanks to the policies of George W. after the dismal failure of Clinton to maintain a presence of the UN in Iraq), and recent reports that upward of 2,000 terrorists had been trained in Saddam's Iraq over the last four years of his tyranny. Clearly Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was present (and protected by Saddam) in Iraq long before the war started, another truth denied by anti-Bush ideologues like you.
   Yes the press insists we never found WMDs, but stockpiles of WMD materials and some weapons were found, and there is plenty of evidence that some of the weapons programs were kept on life support. Other materials were shipped to Syria with the assistance of Russia's military. Their expertise in hiding chemical and biological weapons agents may be denied by ideologues like you you, but it is well-known. As just as recent as January, Iran agreed on this as well as Syria.
   Your rants are too bad, since I do not agree with George W.'s domestic policies, especially the squandering of tax money on education that will fail as long as teachers' unions are in charge of education. Unfortunately, rants by writers like you always convince me again and again just how incompetent Democrats are in assessing the nation's needs. 
   As long as far left ideologues like you are not denounced by the Democratic Party, the party will come up short in elections.
   Democrats proclaim the "Culture of Corruption" in the Republican Party, while fielding presidential front runner Hillary Clinton who has a mile long record of her own personal corruption, like converting $1,000 into $100,000 on cattle futures. She also accuses others of greed, with Watergate and the willful accusations of the W.H. Travel Office staff of financial wrongdoings, just to make place for campaign cronies in 2001. There's also the magically appearing billing records for Rose law firm in her private W.H. quarters, the illegal acquisition and use of 1,000 FBI files by the Clintons in their first term, the use of the Arkansas Attorney General office to slander accusers of rape and philandering, her creation of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy, the transfer of ICBM technology to the Chinese in exchange for Loral Bernard Schwarz campaign donations that saved the Chinese military billions, and the sale of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's Trade mission for campaign contributions. Shall I go on? 
   Politics are corrupt and dirty, but Democrats certainly are not the savior.

Hermann Glockler
Reno