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outside terrorist mercenaries recruited
with Saudi/Qatar funding, U.S. Special
Forces training, Israel lobby pressure in
Washington and Turkish logistic support.
A terrible drought struck Syria in 2006,
forcing some 1.5 million rural residents into
cities already overwhelmed by providing
sanctuary to nearly 2 million Iraqi and
Palestinian refugees created by the U.S.
and Israel. As conditions worsened, Assad
requested U.S. help, which was ignored
by Hillary Clinton’s State Department,
which instead assembled forces to
opportunistically attack a crippled state
innocent of any aggression against us.
After NATO’s destruction of Libya
urged by Clinton’s State Department, its
arsenals were looted and shipped from
Benghazi to arm more than 100,000
mercenaries to launch yet another so-
called “civil war.”
Please vote to protect the many
Syrians, Ukrainians and others abroad in
our imperial crosshairs who cannot vote.
Cancel the coronation. Jill Stein will be an
honest, rational and ethical woman chief
executive.
Jack Dresser
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Springfield
ELK HUNTER
I want to be close to that thing which
is unattainable. The grandest, the most
beautiful.
At having of such elation the flow of
my blood becomes audible. It needs to last.
It’s all I want.
Getting closer is my dream, but I’m
afraid you will run. What I did wrong and
what I should have done haunt me.
I’m sorry. I thought I was doing good.
I practiced not to sin, to praise and honor
you. Was I wrong?
Let’s find a new way. I’m tired of
waiting and hiding and cutting you to
pieces. Trembling in your presence, The
Elk Hunter.
Ken Wages
Eugene
POLITICAL HACKERS
On hacking the election: A question is,
which hackers will win and what side will
that group favor? It is expected they will
have the most fun hacking the computers
back and forth in the U.S. state of Georgia,
which uses old computers without any
paper trail.
Helen Woodford
Eugene
PRAGMATIC PROGRESSIVE
In response to a recent letter which
hammered Mrs. Clinton and endorsed the
Green Party’s idealistic Dr. Jill Stein: We
are preparing to elect a working president,
not the paradigm of a platonic republic.
That means in real-life politics (and in
profound consequences) either Hillary
Clinton or Donald Trump.
Clinton has made mistakes (admitted),
changed her mind (explained) and switched
many tracks in a long career bombarded
by the Fox-Koch-Limbaugh defamation
machine. They hate her because she
has survived as a committed, pragmatic
progressive.
FDR was also a zig-zagging but
positive “opportunist,” and in an initially
skeptical piece (Sept. New Republic) Jeet
Heer concluded that “Clinton may yet
wind up in the history books as an FDR
for our times.”
Our first and greatly experienced
female president will have Sanders,
Kaine, Warren, Biden, the Obamas, Dean,
Buffett, Kerry, Steinem, etc., to help her
stay true as a constructive leader (also a
savvy ex-president who can make his final
contribution).
Her only serious if not credible
opponent is Trump, a malignant mutant of
egomania, a truth-killing con man. He has
pitched his gaudy circus tent over angry,
scared, ignorant, often bigoted people who
crave a subversive spectacle, not a viable
leader. This confirms Norman Mailer’s
insight (1960) that most political slummers
are “in the game not to make history but to
be diverted from the history which is being
made.”
You can cast a futurist “protest” vote for
Stein or Gary Johnson. Or, facing urgent
reality, you can vote for our common
benefit. Clinton may not light up the stars
of your dreams, but she will do a great deal
that we absolutely need.
The necessary work begins on Nov. 8
by electing Clinton and ending the sham
and shame of Trump.
D.C. Elliott
Eugene
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