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 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

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.

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.

Which America do you want? The America where citizens wishing to hear their elected leaders speak in person must first pledge their loyalty before being admitted? The America where citizens instead wishing to display dissent are banished to "free speech zones" across town?

The America where if the president says something confidently and often enough it does not have to make sense to be believed? The America where whatever the president says presently automatically negates whatever he said previously?

The America where bringing civility to Washington means the vice-president can tell a senator to "go f*** himself" on the senate floor? The America where CIA agents are illegally outed as revenge for dissent?

The America where deficits are exploding and leaving a mess all over our future? The America where, according to the vice-president, "deficits don't matter"?

The America where the gap between the thrivingly rich and the miserably poor is widening into a chasm? The America where transnational corporations merit more rights and influence than citizens?