Regarding the letter from Tony Moschetti (Oct. 13): He should try living in the current Iraq if he believes that some cities in the United States are far more dangerous places. I doubt if our troops, construction workers, aid workers or journalists share his opinion.
Shame on Tony Moschetti for blaming the "liberal" press for not putting a happy face on such a tragic situation. Sen. Kerry is right on point in his assessment of the existing quagmire in Iraq; however, it appears that Mr. Moschetti is in dire need of a reality check.
Lorraine A. Gail
Greensboro
News & Record
October 26, 2004
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Civilian and military war dead are significant
Readers of the News & Record won't be surprised to see Tony Moschetti sinking to a new low of warped Republican demagoguery (letter, Oct. 13).
Moschetti claims that the significance of the deaths of more than 1,000 Americans is exaggerated by the "liberal media" since last year 1,695 Americans were killed in "three of our more famous 'blue' cities, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles."
Moschetti, of course, overlooks the fact that Bush sent Americans killed in Iraq into harm's way based on false, ever-changing premises and without an exit strategy or any understanding of the chaos he would be creating.
Moschetti is, of course, totally unconcerned with the fact that our "crusade for freedom" in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of many thousand Iraqis, mostly innocent men, women and children - numbers that go unreported in the elite media and especially on Fox News.
At least seven more Americans have been killed in Iraq since Moschetti's letter was published.
Keith Cushman
Greensboro
News & Record
October 21, 2004
Moschetti claims that the significance of the deaths of more than 1,000 Americans is exaggerated by the "liberal media" since last year 1,695 Americans were killed in "three of our more famous 'blue' cities, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles."
Moschetti, of course, overlooks the fact that Bush sent Americans killed in Iraq into harm's way based on false, ever-changing premises and without an exit strategy or any understanding of the chaos he would be creating.
Moschetti is, of course, totally unconcerned with the fact that our "crusade for freedom" in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of many thousand Iraqis, mostly innocent men, women and children - numbers that go unreported in the elite media and especially on Fox News.
At least seven more Americans have been killed in Iraq since Moschetti's letter was published.
Keith Cushman
Greensboro
News & Record
October 21, 2004
Monday, October 18, 2004
Letter on Iraq 'safety' absurd in the extreme
As a subscriber to the News & Record, I have read many letters from Tony Moschetti. Most of his diatribes are partisan and petty and hardly even merit a response. The letter published Oct. 13, however, is so offensive that it would be irresponsible to leave his charges unanswered.
He asserts that "it appears to be safer in Iraq" than in "blue" America. This ridiculous claim is based on a specious comparison of homicide rates in three large American cities and U.S. military casualties in Iraq.
In the interest of brevity let me simply point out that he takes a very selective look at casualties in Iraq. In addition to military personnel killed in the war, almost 10,000 U.S. military personnel have been treated at Landstahl Regional Medical Center in Germany after being evacuated from Iraq due to injuries or mental health problems. Most of those young men and women will survive, but many of them will suffer permanent life-altering disabilities.
He also ignores hundreds of coalition military and civilian contractor casualties, and he fails to mention that bombings and kidnappings are everyday occurrences. Most egregiously, he totally ignores Iraqi civilian casualties, conservatively estimated at 13,000-15,000. (See www.iraqbodycount.net and http://icasualties.org/oif/ )
The human cost of this war has been very high indeed. Mr. Moschetti might do well to ask ordinary Iraqi civilians whether they think they would be safer in Chicago, New York or Los Angeles than in the cities of their war-torn homeland.
Julie V. Brown
Greensboro
News & Record
October 18, 2004
He asserts that "it appears to be safer in Iraq" than in "blue" America. This ridiculous claim is based on a specious comparison of homicide rates in three large American cities and U.S. military casualties in Iraq.
In the interest of brevity let me simply point out that he takes a very selective look at casualties in Iraq. In addition to military personnel killed in the war, almost 10,000 U.S. military personnel have been treated at Landstahl Regional Medical Center in Germany after being evacuated from Iraq due to injuries or mental health problems. Most of those young men and women will survive, but many of them will suffer permanent life-altering disabilities.
He also ignores hundreds of coalition military and civilian contractor casualties, and he fails to mention that bombings and kidnappings are everyday occurrences. Most egregiously, he totally ignores Iraqi civilian casualties, conservatively estimated at 13,000-15,000. (See www.iraqbodycount.net and http://icasualties.org/oif/ )
The human cost of this war has been very high indeed. Mr. Moschetti might do well to ask ordinary Iraqi civilians whether they think they would be safer in Chicago, New York or Los Angeles than in the cities of their war-torn homeland.
Julie V. Brown
Greensboro
News & Record
October 18, 2004
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Iraqi streets safer than the streets of America?
Rarely does a day pass without the daily recitation of the number of Americans killed in Iraq in the last year. The liberals and their lapdog shills in the elite media went orgasmic when they could tell us that 1,000 Americans had been killed. A great day for the liberals. One newspaper had a gigantic headline saying only, "1,000."
Let's put that number in some sort of perspective. Last year, in three of our more famous "blue" cities, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, 1,695 Americans were killed. They were not killed by terrorists or insurgents or enemy combatants, but by their fellow Americans, in civilized "blue" America. "Blue"
America must be one of the two Americas of which John Edwards constantly speaks.
Despite the constant barrage of negative media reporting by the liberal media, and the endless demagoguery of the Kerry campaign concerning the dangerous conditions in Iraq, it appears to be safer in Iraq than in "blue" America.
The article detailing the 1,695 deaths was a small, four-paragraph story buried inside the newspaper. We didn't get a running total each day. There was no blaring headline at 1,000 killed. Never saw a report on the evening news. I wonder why the huge difference in reporting the deaths of Americans in Iraq and in "blue" America. I wonder why Sen. John F. Fonda, or his girlie boy running mate, never brought it up during the debates. I guess I'm just naive.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
October 13, 2004
Let's put that number in some sort of perspective. Last year, in three of our more famous "blue" cities, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, 1,695 Americans were killed. They were not killed by terrorists or insurgents or enemy combatants, but by their fellow Americans, in civilized "blue" America. "Blue"
America must be one of the two Americas of which John Edwards constantly speaks.
Despite the constant barrage of negative media reporting by the liberal media, and the endless demagoguery of the Kerry campaign concerning the dangerous conditions in Iraq, it appears to be safer in Iraq than in "blue" America.
The article detailing the 1,695 deaths was a small, four-paragraph story buried inside the newspaper. We didn't get a running total each day. There was no blaring headline at 1,000 killed. Never saw a report on the evening news. I wonder why the huge difference in reporting the deaths of Americans in Iraq and in "blue" America. I wonder why Sen. John F. Fonda, or his girlie boy running mate, never brought it up during the debates. I guess I'm just naive.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
October 13, 2004
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