In Reply to Sal Albanese

11/9/05

Mr Albanese, I was not going to make any comments on your first letter in which you clearly were regurgitating the Democratic lines about lies and general Bush hatred. Unfortunately, when I saw your letter in the Nov. 9, 2005 MDJ, I could no longer be silent. You, sir, have given an indication of your intelligence and civility to label those who disagreed with you as "spineless simple-minded people..." who "..wouldn't recognize it (the truth) even if it came up and bit them on the backside." I thought name calling was a conservative trait.

In fact, it seems that whenever the left is challenged about the fact that they are spouting the Moveon.org line the only response is to call people names.

I do not wish to restrict your right to be heard. I don't know that the people you are referring to want to deny your right to speak either but I do think that you could use a dose of that truth you mentioned.

A few questions to you. What evidence do you have that someone lied about or manipulated the intelligence that was viewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee among others (almost all of whom voted for the war)? Where is the administration official that said Iraq was responsible for 9/11. If prewar intelligence was faulty, the fault lies with the CIA and others worldwide which supplied the erroneous information, not with the political leaders, Democratic and Republican, who relied upon it. WMD's, which, by the way have been found several times, including (per the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sunday, November 06, 2005) which noted: The 4th Infantry Division discovered in an ammo dump near the town of Baiji 55 gallon drums of chemicals which, when mixed together, form nerve gas. They were stored next to surface-to-surface missiles which had been configured to carry a liquid payload. Does it have to be mixed together to get the magic WMD label?

Sick of the indictments? Which indictments are those? Are you speaking of Libby, who was indicted for not remembering or lying about what he told reporters? When did the Left decide that indictment is the same as conviction?

Aren't you getting a little tired of the Bush ran from Vietnam line yet? He was reelected even with the existence of forged documents run by CBS and others.

Valerie Plame-Wilson was not a covert agent. No one in the administration has been even charged with "outing her". Note that new evidence indicates that Joe Wilson was telling people his wife worked at CIA in 2002.

If more deaths not honor our troops, will cutting and running honor them?