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(Re: “The big sting,” Cover story, May 22.) Good article! Someone should listen to what Theobald is saying. His comments concerning contacting your state representative could be the start of forcing our government to look at this problem instead of listening to the manufacturers of pesticides tell them that they are not the problem, while the politician pockets his campaign donation and ignores what’s going on because bees don’t do anything for him. Has your paper asked the state and fed reps why the response to this problem has been nonexistent?
Jeff Roth/Wales, Wis.
Danish debate
(Re: “Are the Democrats advocating appeasement?” Danish Plan, May 22.) Let us momentarily suspend our disbelief (great as it is) and grant Paul Danish his premise that the war in Iraq is justifiable. From this premise then, I would like to ask Mr. Danish (or any neo-con who cares to jump in) four questions:
1) Why, five years after President Bush declared “mission accomplished,” we still have not “won” the war in Iraq, or, more simply, what went wrong?
2) Given what appears to be profound incompetence on behalf of the architects of the war, why should we trust them to secure victory now (or ever)?
3) Does Paul consider the possibility that, using his list of troublemakers — “Iran, Syria, al Qaeda, al Sadr’s Mahdi Army, Iraqi Baathist insurgents, the Saudi Wahabi clergy and Islamic jihadists everywhere” — have been emboldened by the removal of Saddam Hussein, or more accurately, by the policies of George Bush?
And last but not least…
4) Given that Mr. Danish has never served in the military, let alone seen action, nor apparently lifted a finger to help out the troops or made any sacrifices of his own for his cause, how can he sleep with himself asking others to do his fighting for him?
Doug Richards/Boulder
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Marie VanGilder/Coppell, Texas
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