Saturday, May 31, 2008

Wearing my feisty pants again

Copy of letter I just sent to the editor of the Seattle Times -

Hello. I am writing with a brief comment about a headline I read in your paper moments ago: "Less-violent Iraq raises hopes for early withdrawal."

Early? Early?? Aren't we about 4 years and 8 months past the administration's wildest estimates? And didn't VP Cheney declare that the insurgency was in the "last throes" three years ago on May 31, 2005?

"Early" implies ahead of schedule, and all sane people would agree we moved out of that era a long, long time ago.

I don't know what it is about the late night-to-early morning, but the feisty just comes out.

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