Bob,

I enjoyed your article about Bush, Hitler & Religion; I grew up in US churches and sensed all along that they were rigged by some quasi-Nazi group with a few tricks up its sleeve, like maybe starting war for fun and profit...

You might already know about "ACCESS DENIED For Reasons of National Security", just out from Mark & Cathy Phillips. They have evidence most of the press is afraid to talk about; in fact, they were talking at one point with Danny Casolaro, and you know what happened there.

...This is their 2nd book, their first one, published in 1995, awakened a lot of people; I have gotten to know them well and find that their statements all check out.

Kenyon Gibson, author: "Hemp for Victory", "Commons Sense: A Study of the Bushes, the CIA, and the Suspicions Regarding 9/11".

Cockburn puts together a good collection of articles, generally, but he's been down on Kerry since the beginning, bashing him almost weekly.

I have never been enthusiastic about Kerry, but like Greg Palast says, he's a slap in the face and Bush is a Brick in the head. We need to get behind Kerry. He's no progressive's dream, but he's a thousand times better than Bush.

You and your partner write superbly and I'm always proud to run your articles. I just don't get how progressives can bash their best hope of saving the US. Yes, Kerry is not filling all the categories we'd love to have in an ideal president, but at least he isn't destroying so many others, like Bush is. We all need to pull together, find the good in Kerry, sell it to the nation and then, after he's elected, push him to move left, towards more progressive positions. Before the election we need positive constructive criticism, not bitter bellyaching that demoralizes.

Rob Kall
Dear Mr. Fitrakis!

Quote from the article mentioned in the subject line: "With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of preventive war against all of Europe"

Question:Who declared war on whom:
Germany to France or otherwise?
England to Germany or otherwise?
Who put his own citizens with full knowledge and intent in harms way to stage phony reasons to declare war? Germany on America or otherwise?

The list could go on. On the other hand: Who ever met an American (or a Greek for that matter) who knew something about anything?

regards from old Europe,

Dr. Michael Bolsinger
Germany

Dear Mr. Fitrakis!

Quote from the article mentioned in the subject line: "With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of preventive war against all of Europe"

Question:Who declared war on whom:
Germany to France or otherwise?
England to Germany or otherwise?
Who put his own citizens with full knowledge and intent in harms way to stage phony reasons to declare war? Germany on America or otherwise?

The list could go on. On the other hand: Who ever met an American (or a Greek for that matter) who knew something about anything?

regards from old Europe,

Dr. Michael Bolsinger
Germany

I agree...the similarities are a bad omen...

Robert Markey
Ft. Myers, FL
Dear Professor Fitrakis,

I thought you wrote an excellent article and I hope that the article receives wide attention. While Governor Schwarzenegger made the communist, socialist, democrat connection (some may argue how subtle he was) few appreciate fascist parallel to Bush's behavior. I thank you for clarifying this and I hope your article receives the wide attention your article deserves.

Larry Welsch

AUSTIN, Texas -- Stephen Colbert, correspondent for “The Daily Show,” the only news program to watch during the Republican convention, found the theme of this convention like a homing pigeon: “Unmitigated gall.”

        This convention alone would be enough to convince me that John Edwards is right about “two Americas,” except I don’t think he’s gone far enough. These folks are in from another planet. They’re living in an alternative reality. When is a fact a fact to these people? When did anyone ever find evidence Saddam Hussein had dog to do with Sept. 11?

        It’s all very well to claim our invasion of Iraq may yet bring about peace and democracy in the Middle East -- hey, miracles happen -- but when Rudy Giuliani assured us this “idealism” is in fact triumphing as he speaks, one must question the man’s grip on sanity. Even the president is now claiming the disastrous occupation is the result of “catastrophic success.” That seems to mean he thinks we won the war too fast.

Even the people who tell me they will vote for Kerry take pains to stress that they don't like him. A friend who marched against Bush in New York Sunday phoned me to say that though she didn't like Kerry but would vote for the man," I know now he's definitely going to lose."

        "How do you know that?"

        "There were maybe 450,000 people on the streets of Manhattan, all of them hating Bush, and I saw maybe 10 people with Kerry/Edwards signs. Maybe two with Nader/Camejo signs. People don't connect hating Bush with voting for Kerry."

        You can blame that partly on the whole Bush-as-Monster frenzy that has every bookstore piled with hysterical tracts making the president out as a cross between Caligula and Nero, without even the latter's fiddle playing as a redeeming quality.

The Nationwide Arena doors opened at 1:00. There would be a four-hour wait before the prodigal son returned to his ancestral home, Columbus, Ohio.

Forget about Kennebunkport, Maine. That’s where George Herbert Walker of the St. Louis Walkers purchased a faux ancestral home. Ignore Connecticut. That’s simply where Prescott Bush went, after his prank letter on being a war hero was published in a hometown newspaper embarrassing the family out of the heartland. Here in Columbus is where it all started. Where the great-grandfather of our current President began the family’s well-documented tradition of war profiteering.

Samuel Bush, friend of the Rockefellers and owner of Buckeye Steel Castings, pulled his own “Halliburton” in World War I simultaneously serving on the Armaments Board and granting contracts to his family business. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church still stands on Broad Street near downtown as a monument to the good old days. The Bush family worshipped there before its new generations embraced evangelical right-wing Christianity.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Another record. We have already lost more American soldiers (488) in Iraq in 239 days of this year than we did in 287 days last year (482), when there was a war on and before our mission was accomplished.

        The grind of the numbers is so relentless. Price of gasoline -- pressing $50 a barrel. Poverty rate -- increased again, third year in a row. Number of Americans without insurance -- increased again, third year. Part of the "vibrant economy” Bush touts daily now. And the news from Iraq just keeps getting worse and worse.

        Then, to liven things up, someone from Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith's office is accused of passing classified information to the Israelis via the lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Be interesting to see whether Laurence A. Franklin, the alleged spy, gets as much publicity as did Clinton's former NSC adviser Sandy Berger did for allegedly taking notes on classified documents for his 9-11 Commission testimony. The Justice Department has announced no charges will be filed against Berger, and the matter is closed.

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