Web Letters: Order 17

By Tom Engelhardt

September 24, 2007

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  • The Presidential Medal of Freedom has the same feel as the Hero of the Soviet Union stars awarded to Leonid Brezhnev. I am waiting for GWB to award himself the Medal of Freedom for his own tireless efforts to secure freedom and liberty to the struggling peoples of Iraq while fighting the counterrevolutionary enemies of the...

    Oh, wait.

    Daniel Kim

    Las Cruces, NM

    09/27/2007 @ 06:00am


  • We need to get these people out of Iraq. God knows what kind of stupidity is being perpetrated by these people under the instructions of the Administration. Everybody should write to Congress about cutting all of these private contractors from the Defense Department and State Department budget. It is more corporate welfare for the multinationals. The military should have control of the battlefield and control of their own logistics. It would also save the taxpayers a bundle. Private enterprise does not do it cheaper!

    Pervis J. Casey

    Riverside, CA

    09/26/2007 @ 3:02pm


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