Monday, February 12, 2007

Act on conscience

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If the general consensus is that the addition of 20,000 more troops will not achieve our objective, what can we hope to expect from the forc...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

In the end, Bush does as he pleases

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We, the free American people, our moral religious preachers, our intelligent schools and universities, our smart independent mass media, our...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

Support bill

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President Bush is sending our troops to Iraq knowing they will probably die. They are being sent into the middle of a civil war with both si...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Investigate reasons why Bush invaded Iraq

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A recent Harris poll asked Americans if they favored investigating President Bush's reasons for invading Iraq. Fifty-six percent said ye...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Big brother

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I'm beginning to worry about where America is headed. As an older citizen, I value my rights and freedom in this country, a democracy. M...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Student debt

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On behalf of more than 7,000 students I represent at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, I would like to thank U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

Cut war funding, bring the troops home

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The president has urged Congress to give his new war strategy a chance. In terms of body bags, Mr. President, how do you define “chance”? Me...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Message sent

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For the first time in my life, I doubt our country's wisdom in our commitment to our own nation's integrity and survival. We were be...

Money misspent

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Once again President Bush is going before Congress to ask for $10.6 billion to rebuild Afghanistan and strengthen its government. Meanwhile,...
Friday, February 02, 2007

Three words for President Bush:resign or impeach

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I always thought the government was for the people and by the people. How can this be? Bush tells us it is his way or no way. We will stay t...

Let's get out of Iraq's civil war

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In her Jan. 19 column regarding her recent trip to Iraq, Michelle Malkin wrote, “We are fighting a war of the fleas — not just Sunni terrori...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Resign

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I am 85 years old and President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are the worst president and vice president in my lifetime. How can any A...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

What democarcy?

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The Bush administration keeps telling us that the sacrifices of our military personnel have resulted in the establishment of democracy and f...

No signs of peace

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American troops should never have been sent to Iraq. The sending of additional troops is wrong because I believe the Sunnis, Shiites and Kur...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Andrews on the mark

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I am thrilled that U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews, D-Haddon Heights, has taken the voters of South Jersey seriously. Andrews has taken the lead and h...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

No shame

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What more can be said about the Great Divider's, oops -- the Decider's ruinous, morale-busting call for additional troops to the ine...
Monday, January 22, 2007

War is good for profiteers

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President Bush and his cohorts don't really care about what happens on the ground in Iraq; they care about what comes out of the ground....

Editorial right on Bush's surge

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have my disagreements with The Press from time to time, but the Jan. 11 editorial, “A surge too far/Bush is wrong,” was right on the money. ...

Thanks, but we all know that more troops will die

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It's bad enough that President Bush is requesting additional troops be deployed to Iraq; it's rather depressing that he had to stres...

Ambrose wrong on war's critics

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Jay Ambrose's Jan. 10 commentary, “Critics of a surge want to surrender,” has just about everything wrong, starting with the headline. S...

Bush supporter has head in sand

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The writer of the Jan. 8 letter, “Bush and Ford in similar spots,” who said that President Bush was doing a fine job, must have his head in ...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Snow job

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What President Bush is giving the American people is another snow job by pouring another 20,000 troops into Iraq. He unilaterally started th...

Disturbing

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The recent provocations of Iran by the Bush administration should disturb us all. President Bush scared us into the Iraq quagmire with visio...

Won't heed advice

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After all the leaks coming out of President Bush's office recently, it is no surprise that he has decided to commit more troops toward q...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

The behavior of this president is beyond words

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Not only has he run up our national debt to frightening proportions, caused the worst deficit the country has ever had, ignored global warmi...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Egocentric man

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After the 2004 elections, President Bush declared his slim, disputatious victory to be a mandate and proceeded to pursue the most extreme, u...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Vehicle for change

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Whoever occupies the White House in 2009 must use the bitter, brutal and humiliating lessons of Iraq as a vehicle for change. This country c...

Rich get richer, workers struggle

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Let them eat Spam. The exponential skewing upward of America's wealth curve continues unabated. CEO types buy ever-more expensive yachts...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Bush undermining Constitution

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Regarding the Dec. 17 article, “Foreign policy is president's job”: I wholeheartedly agree — only if upholding the U.S. Constitution is ...

President Bush is no Gerald Ford

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Gerald Ford has emerged with the New Year as a singular individual with firmly imbedded virtues of integrity, honesty, courage, kindness and...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

America's middle class disappearing

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The comedian George Carlin has a routine about particular phrases that create confusion and hide from us the reality of what we're actua...

Peace unlikely in divided Iraq

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The unseemly handling of the execution of Saddam Hussein by the Shiite-controlled government of Iraq only adds fodder to what many Americans...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Senator Menendez appointed to key committees

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Newly elected New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez has been appointed to some extremely important committees, none more so than Senate Foreign Re...

Withdraw troops

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Bring all of our troops home now from Iraq. Stop all funding for this illegal and immoral invasion. Thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians an...

Bush war policy an abuse of power

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As the Declaration of Independence says, governments derive their powers “from the consent of the governed.” It also says that after “a long...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

Face truth

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Neither the president nor the Congress will face the truth. They have created a situation in Iraq that we are now powerless to control. They...

Give Iraqis their pride back

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Remember growing up how proud you were of your school? How proud you were of your school teams? Remember your feelings about the town where ...

Declare victory in Iraq and leave

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When President Bush makes his State of the Union speech, he should declare a victory in Iraq and announce that we will begin withdrawing our...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Downfall

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Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has asked America not to "sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war against t...

Attacks begun

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As soon as the Iraq Study Group's report was released, the extreme right wing of the Republican Party began attacks on its members. Rush...

War isn't worth the cost

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The price of admission to see a tyrant and a few of his henchmen executed: Thousands of U.S. soldiers killed or permanently maimed, hundreds...

More troops are no answer

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It has been said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This can justifiably be said of the Bush administration...
Monday, January 01, 2007

NJ STARS is a real star

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The Dec. 25 article, “Scholarship program bumps enrollment at county colleges,” regarding NJ STARS scholarship students, was a reaffirmation...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

U.S. can't export democracy

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Neither President Bush nor any of his predecessors have brought themselves or the nation to the full implementation of the theory of democra...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Face reality

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I think former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation was long overdue. The course the president should take is to admit the...

Tragedy grows, as war drags on

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As the war in Iraq drags on with ever-increasing American and Iraqi casualties, two things are ever present in my mind. One is the image of ...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Don't increase troops in Iraq

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No more American troops for Iraq, please. We recently tried adding thousands of troops to Baghdad in Operation Together Forward, and it made...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Elections told Bush to Bring troops home

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As I read the daily newspapers, I look for reports on President Bush's latest thoughts on the war in Iraq. I was very much encouraged wh...
Monday, December 25, 2006

Now, Bush takes his time?

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In March of 2003, President Bush was in such a hurry to invade Iraq he could not give Hans Blix, the international weapons inspector, two mo...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Now's the time to leave Iraq

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So now President Bush is employing further delay tactics in Iraq exit plans until 2007. How many commissions, committees, how much military ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

We the people

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Even the definitely conservative-leaning Iraq Study Group recommended "a robust diplomatic effort to establish an international support...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Dems' election signals opening in health care

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The Democrats have retaken control of both houses of Congress after more then 12 years, and they now have the unique opportunity to develop ...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

But LoBiondo won't have to use Medicae D

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I can understand why Congressman Frank LoBiondo thinks Medicare D is so great (DJ-Nov. 29), because he doesn't have to use it and probab...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Draft would focus public's attention

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Regarding Michael Goodwin's Dec. 4 column, “Rangel's reasons are wrong — but draft's a good idea”: There's much to be said f...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Share the wealth

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God bless America. The federal government has improved the lot of the neediest among us. They are no longer "hungry," they are ...

Case to impeach

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What is more important to the health of our democracy: bipartisanship or accountability? Are we a nation of laws or men? Has the Constitutio...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Congress must rein in Bush

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The history of the last four years has proven that the Bush administration cooked intelligence and lied to obtain the original Authorization...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Dems' takeover signals workers' deep discontent

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The Democratic victories in Washington in this year's election are telegraphing to the new Congress the dissatisfaction the Americans fe...
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Get out now

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The recent election proved, without a doubt, that our illegal foreign policy in Iraq was a nightmare. Staying the course because it might re...

Elections better than impeaching

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Eight years ago, a Republican House of Representatives returned a bill of impeachment against President Clinton for lying under oath when he...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Needless

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am dismayed with the Bush administration for the needless killing of nearly 3,000 American servicemen and servicewomen and the maiming of th...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Remembering a different time, conflict

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In part because of all of the daily coverage of the military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am often brought back to the late '60s an...

Clearly voters rejected Bush

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The writer of the Nov. 21 letter, “GOP election loss not Bush's fault,” still doesn't get it. The people voted against President Bus...

How sad to die to benefit big oil

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The death of Eric Palacios Rivera, the soldier from Atlantic City killed in Iraq, was certainly a devastating event for his family. And for ...
Monday, November 27, 2006

War in Iraq was a mistake from the start

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I hated those who perpetrated such a gross inhuman act on innocent people. An "eye for an eye" was my first thought. Even now when...

Get out of Iraq

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There is a civil war in Iraq right now. It is the fault of the U.S. government that illegally attacked Iraq against the advice of the govern...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Wars for oil are no answer

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The Nov. 17 letter, “Corporations hold the real power,” defines what many of us strongly suspect but cannot find time to confront. Most of u...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

End Bush's rule

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President Bush's unilateral war in Iraq, along with Vice President Dick Cheney's greedy plan to enrich Republican donors, have resul...
Friday, November 24, 2006

Follow the money in House races

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Does anyone see something wrong with the following quote from the Oct. 20 issue of the Kiplinger Newsletter: “The GOP has a great deal to lo...

Different values

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Re: "Real values, (letters, Nov. 3). This is a reply to the writer who states he is in agreement with the "real values" advoc...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

Road to recovery

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The Nov. 7 election was a national repudiation of the ill-gotten Bush presidency and his stealth-like attempt to establish a quasi-theocrati...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Corporations hold the real power

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Despite the results of the recent elections, most Americans are truly unaware of what is going on. Many of us are foolish enough to believe ...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Too high a cost

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President Bush is happy with Saddam Hussein's verdict. He says that it was worth the cost to this country. Was it? The cost was more tha...

End the war

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Oh, yeah, let's keep the Iraq war going. Officials snowed the ignorant American people during the Vietnam War. They can and are doing it...

Waste of money

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Seven hundred miles of additional fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border is ludicrous and a fleecing of taxpayers. It is an act of racism and...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Look what we got for 3,000 dead

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What a triumph! Our new Iraqi puppets are going to execute three of their former crazy leaders who were such a “clear and growing threat” to...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Had enough?

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Thank God the majority of people in our country have had enough of this mindless administration. Hopefully, now that Defense Secretary Donal...

America rejected Bush's agenda

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I am very proud of all the American people nationwide who sent a message, loud and clear, to our emperor-in-chief George Bush. The votes are...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Impeach Bush

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I reminiscence about the old days when America was a place for people from different countries to look up to and someday hope to be a part o...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Fuzzy math

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006 President Bush claimed the budget deficit for this fiscal year was $247.7 billion. The deficit is the difference...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

"Marie Anoinette": interesting timing

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As you know, the new movie “Marie Antoinette” shows the unrealistic paranoia and extravagant spending on the part of royalty while the alrea...

McCain right, Press wrong

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When Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. came to New Jersey recently to support the candidacy of Tom KeanJr.,, he said that the outcome of this campai...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

Serve in active duty before judging Kerry

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During the past few days, I've stood by watching Sen. Kerry being criticized about his statement made of the education of service member...

Menendez is independent voice for New Jersey

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When George Bush won the presidency in 2000 without a plurality of the popular vote, many hoped he would see his razor-thin electoral victor...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Terrorists must like Republicans best

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Regarding the Oct. 28 letter, “How would terrorists vote?”: Let's see who would best serve terrorists' goals. How about a Republican...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

LoBiondo hurt southern New Jersey

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U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-2nd, tells us that it is his job as our representative in Congress to vote for the people of southern New Jersey...

LoBiondo lost his integrity

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In 1994, the Republican Party swept to control of both houses of Congress due, in large part, to their endless touting of a so-called “Contr...