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Lose the Rabbit's Foot

In letter after letter, I see people protesting that President Bush has done and is doing a good job on the war on terror. But in every one of these missives, the underlying fearful thought is the same:

I don't want to throw away my rabbit's foot.

This mystifies me, as I cannot see what such people find "lucky" or protective in George W. Bush. Yes, he did make a speech at the Statue of Liberty on the night of September 11, 2001, urging us to be brave, promising protection from further terrorist attacks and vowing Biblical revenge upon those who brought down the Twin Towers. But he was also the president who ignored multiple intelligence warnings that terrorists were planning to fly planes into tall buildings.

He is not a rabbit's foot of good fortune. To paraphrase considerably an old 60's expression, he is not the solution, he is the problem.

Michael J. Lombardi

New book with first hand accounts of Bush treason, your article on rense

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".

The Stench of Cockburn

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

Gott mit uns

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

Gott mit uns

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

Gott Mit

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

Robert Markey
Ft. Myers, FL

Gott Mit Uns: On Bush and Hitler's Rhetoric

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

Unmitigated gall

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.

The stench of doom

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.

Random notes from the heartland – Bush in Columbus

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.

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