TheBanyanTree: Death of 2006

[Jeri Xiques]

But how do you *really* feel, Margaret?

I don't believe the Tree is the place to air political opinions.  Nor 
religious beliefs.  I've always understood this to be a peaceful place to 
tell stories, not to throw stones at political figures with whom we might 
happen to disagree.  There are other sites where one can do that.

Happy New Year to all,

Jeri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret R. Kramer" <margaret.kramer at polarispublications.com>
To: "The Banyan Tree" <thebanyantree at remsset.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: TheBanyanTree: Death of 2006


> Would you want Dick Cheney at your funeral?  I've always had neutral
> feelings about Gerald Ford.  He was neither a bad or good president.  I
> always thought that his pardon of Nixon was wrong, regardless of "healing
> the country."  Nixon opened the gate of corruption and it's never closed,
> pardon or no pardon.  Look at the president we have today - he's an
> embarrassment to our country.
>
> Gerald Ford's former chief of staff, Dick Cheney, gave a well-written 
> eulogy
> about what a great guy President Ford was, naming all the virtues that go
> with being a good person.  I kept looking at the speaker, with his vampire
> teeth and beady evil eyes, and wondered, how could he identify any 
> righteous
> characteristics in anyone when he has so few of his own?  Cheney is evil
> personified.  Why would any normal person want Cheney within 10 feet of
> them?  He belongs in a permanent undisclosed location.  He reminds me of
> Hitler's Martin Bormann.
>
> It did please me, however, that Gerald Ford condemned the Bush
> Administration's efforts in Iraq.  One leader after another sees what
> everyone else sees, except Bush and his lackeys, that Iraq is lost. 
> America
> can't fight guerilla-style warfare.  We need a tangible enemy to be
> victorious.  Vietnam and now Iraq provide us with only shadows to fight 
> and
> our punches keep missing.
>
> In contrast to the dignified state funeral of President Ford, we had the
> salivating media monitoring the execution of Saddam Hussein.  Yes, he was 
> a
> butcher.  He was a killer.  But he did NOT cause 9/11.  He did NOT develop
> weapons of mass destruction.  And he did NOT harbor Al Qaeda in his 
> country.
> He was a typical dictator that America supports when it suits the 
> situation.
> So the media surrounds him in death like a bunch of rabid dogs.  And we in
> America, because we have lost any sense of honor, of dignity, and of 
> respect
> for others, right or wrong, and we're such a "Christian" country, aren't 
> we?
> eagerly cheer on his death like a touchdown in a football game.  Rah! 
> Rah!
>
> Meanwhile Iraq is just the same - a quagmire of lost hopes and dreams.
>
> Hopefully 2007 will bring our country back to where it should be.  Bush,
> even with a Republican Congress behind him, accomplished nothing except
> pouring billions of dollars into a war that is over.  We lost, we 
> destroyed
> Iraq, let's move on and fix our own country.
>
> We elected some good leaders this year.  Let's see if they can get America
> back on track and neutralize Bush and his cronies.  We have two more years
> of this moron.  Let's make the best of it and restore the world's respect
> for the United States, and also our own.
>
> Margaret R. Kramer
> margaretkramer at comcast.net
>
> Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I
> don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much 
> not
> having at other times.
> ~Kate L. Bosher
>
>