Who wants to mock some hate mail?

Pursuant to long-established tradition, I post all column-generated hate mail here for your delectation and amusement. Here's the first one generated by "Sex and Violence." Enjoy.

Note this is from a guy who says he's a lurker, so you can have the satisfaction of knowing he'll be reading your rebuttal!


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I lurk on DU. It helps to understand the weirdness.

ABC News has admitted that Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were linked through top terrorist Ayman Aal-Zarqawi - and were so linked before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Captain Ed has posted a good summary and analysis, with links, at Blogs For Bush, and Cori Dauber also has a good summary.

ABC News, in a long report posted on its website, said this:

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In late 2002, officials say, Zarqawi began establishing sleeper cells in Baghdad and acquiring weapons from Iraqi intelligence officials.


Any bets that the anti-war, anti-Bush Left (you and your fellow travelers) will now stop screaming that there was "no link" between Saddam and al Qaeda? Yeah, right. I didn't think so.
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& it was the Spanish who scuttled the Main.



what a naive child.

why would you need to establish a sleeper cell? couldn't you just open a Baath approved office in downtown Saddam City?

I know logic (and history and socio politics and theology)isn't a strong point in the freep camp but why on earth would Saddam arm ANYONE in a nation in which he had brutalised the population for 30 years and in which everyone would have personally liked to kill him, let alone a group of religious nuts whom almost EVERY Islamic country has been battling in various forms since the middle of last century.

...that any dictator would want a band of really self-determined radicals with weapons within their borders, even if they had found some affinity on some point.

...I see the dead-horse-of-choice is still the Iraq-al Qaeda connection. I challenge anyone--ANYONE--to produce a valid, verifiable source that connects the two. The CIA couldn't come up with one. The DIA couldn't come up with one. British Intelligence couldn't come up with one. Now we are to believe that at "Blogs for Bush" they've got the goods? Yeah, baby, and I'm the easter bunny.

this email completely changed my outlook. I realize now that it was worth it to invade Iraq to get Saddam's stockpiles of weapons of mass destr - or, I mean, to oust Saddam and to liberate the Iraqis - wait, no - to get Zarqawi because he was establishing sleeper cells there. Thank God for Bush's vision and focus.

Al Quaida has established sleeper cells HERE! In the USA! By your logic we are now in league with Al Quaida.
And yes I am anti-war, because the war has done nothing but bad for everyone other than Halliburton. Just like we on the left said it would, and just like you on the right keep denying, or blaming on Clinton.
I have no doubt that officials in Iraq may have assisted an Al Quaida agent. But the fact remains (and it remains because you people won't face this fact) that Iraq was NOT a threat to the US. Period. The rationale for going to war was that Iraq was an immediate threat-you know, the mushroom cloud over an American city that your pundits are trying to say Bush never talked about. Iraq was never capable of a threat, and this administration knew that going in. So some piddling link between an operative on one side and an operative on another is meaningless, and a waste of resources which should be devoted to other things, and a feeble excuse for lying in the first place, and certainly NOT an immediate threat to US security.

n/t

...just another hapless victim of bush*'s "No Child Left" plan.
I'll try and correct the spelling and grammatical errors which are so painfully evident. I weep for the children :(

"I lurk on DU. It helps to understand the weirdness."

Nice try. What he meant obviously was:
"I learn on DU. It helps to understand the weirdness."
Clearly "Hooked On Phonics" works for, er...everyone else. -15

"ABC News has admitted that Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were linked through top terrorist Ayman Aal-Zarqawi - and were so linked before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq."

Sloppy study habits indicated here, he might want to practice effective note-taking. He meant to say:
"ABC News has admitted that the BFEE and al Qaeda were linked through top terrorist Osama bin Laden - and were so linked before the 9/11 attacks." (actually the relationship dates back to when the BFEE learned that Saudi money spends just as good as our own, but I know memorizing all those dates can be problematic for young students) -15

"Captain Ed has posted a good summary and analysis, with links, at Blogs For Bush, and Cori Dauber also has a good summary."

I'm in the dark what is meant by this cryptic statement. "Captain Ed" could perhaps refer to an imaginary friend. Lonely children lacking in social skills often invent such mental constructs. I'll write a memo for the school psychologist. Nevertheless, the student certainly understands the necessity of links, since even his "Captain Ed" apparently uses them. -15 for the missing link. ;)

"ABC News, in a long report posted on its website, said this:

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In late 2002, officials say, Zarqawi began establishing sleeper cells in Baghdad and acquiring weapons from Iraqi intelligence officials."

There is just no excuse for this...none at all. Perhaps the "2002" is a typo? Perhaps the student is unaware that in 2002 ABC (and others) were also reporting officials saying that Saddam Hussein had massive stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and could strike within 45 minutes? He might just as well report what officials were saying in 1002 for all the significance it has now.
There have indeed been many sleeper cells established, but not in Baghdad. An MRI of this student's cranium would reveal them. Perhaps it's due to the glue-sniffing, I don't know. At times I grow discouraged with the teaching profession because of students such as this one. -15 for grossly insufficient research and an additional -15 for the missing link. ;)

"Any bets that the anti-war, anti-Bush Left (you and your fellow travelers) will now stop screaming that there was "no link" between Saddam and al Qaeda? Yeah, right. I didn't think so."

Well now, it seems I gave up on the lad too soon! He's certainly aced this last one!:D


Total Score: F (25%):dunce:

I recommend an intensive course of summer instruction at DU for this student, with retesting before the Fall semester.

So...you see? It wasn't hate mail at all! Just a slow lurker. Oops, I mean a slow learner! :D

separation from Kevin Bacon. Or Riggs Bank, for that matter.

Snip:

In late 2002, officials say, Zarqawi began establishing sleeper cells in Baghdad and acquiring weapons from Iraqi intelligence officials.

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What "officials"? Where did they get this intelligence, form the same sources that just knew there were "stockpile of wmd" in Iraq?

This "administration" loves to cite "bad intelligence" when things go wrong, but wants us to believe they have "good intelligence" when it is suits their needs. The only "intelligence failure" here seems to reside in the White House.