With U.S. troops closing in on Baghdad and the timetable of military leaders growing ever more vague, Americans only can expect the U.S.-led war on Iraq to get bloodier. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday he is unsure about the timetable of this war - especially its ending.
Who actually likes war? No one. Isn't war hard enough (whether you support it or not) without plastering pictures of dead people on the front page of Tuesday's State News?
John Bice's column pointing out the reality of Bush's presidency was great ("First impression of Bush apparently off target" SN 3/25). William Perod's letter, on the other hand, made me sick ("Columnist's choice of discussion awful" SN 3/26). Calling the article "whiny" and "unpatriotic" was way off base.
And I thought reality TV couldn't go any further. People are being married by the audience, kicked off islands, rushing fraternities and sororities and now this. Live war. Late Saturday night, CNN and many other news networks around the world aired a battle near Umm Qasr in Iraq, live for our viewing pleasure. Sure, I'll admit I was frozen to the TV watching the events unfold, which is the goal of any TV network. And sure, it was a great show of journalism, especially after the tragic events that some journalists have already encountered in the war. But come on, you can't just go broadcasting live battle scenes.
When hearing Professor Fayyaz Hussain describe his experiences of being sneered at to "Go back home," a reasonable person might think he was reminiscing about being teased in elementary school. Sadly, that is not the case.
This letter is in response to a letter to the editor ("Columnist's choice of discussion awful" SN 3/26). The person who wrote the letter complained about a columnist not "supporting his country, his troops and his president in times as important as they are right now." The columnist is later called "ultraliberal" and "unpatriotic." The kicker here is when the writer of the letter says, "I hate people who use their First Amendment right to spout off about our nation in a time when there is no room for it." What?
This letter is in response to Patricia V. Griffith's letter "Protests disrespect government, troops," (SN 3/27). Of course they do.
I never thought I'd open up the paper that I so faithfully read every day at lunchtime to see step-by-step instructions for rolling my own cigarettes
ASMSU has taken themselves too seriously once again with its disqualification of 45 students from its recent election.
I have witnessed with some alarm a growing number of incidents that demonstrate either a woeful lack of knowledge or a callous disregard for our national flag.
I personally am disheartened that a government so unprecedentedly large and prolific as ours cannot learn the simple lesson that Mohandas K.
Showing silent support for the people affected by war and for the soldiers fighting for the liberation of the Iraqi people, students at MSU can help in a huge way to send aid to those affected by violence with donations of blood.
Protesters do not understand the meaning of peace. I can't understand how protesters can protest for peace when protesting is not a peaceful act.
I am responding to something that was said in the March 20 paper by a civil engineering senior about his support for the war ("Students, residents absorb initial visions of war" SN 3/20). He was quoted saying, "American patriotism lies in the fact that we won't back down." This got me thinking, to put it lightly, and I felt a need to respond in this time where open communication is exactly what we need more of.
The United States and its coalition cannot afford to come up short or late when it comes to getting humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people they are claiming to liberate. The first sizable relief convoy rolled into Iraq during Wednesday's sandstorm, three days after President Bush promised "massive amounts" of humanitarian aid would be delivered. Missing such important self-imposed deadlines is unacceptable for the nation that paved its way for war with Iraq.
Amidst the fighting in Iraq, prayers for our brave troops and the protesting in the streets, another less publicized controversy emerged last week when graduate student Carolyn O'Laughlin resigned as the Mason Hall assistant hall director after fighting against a policy that prohibits same-sex domestic partners from living together in university housing.
This is in response to "Inconveniences caused by protesters minor in context," (SN 3/24). This is America and everybody has the right to protest.
As if the price of American lives wasn't already too much to pay for the Bush administration's war with Iraq, now the president is asking Congress for billions of dollars the country doesn't have to finance the endeavor. President Bush is seeking $74.7 billion as a down payment for the war with Iraq.
This letter is a response to all the anti-war demonstrations and letters pinpointing oil as President Bush's reason for declaring war on Iraq. Using oil as Bush's purpose for declaring war is a very cheap way to find a reason to be against the war. Iraq supplies about 5 percent of the world's oil.
With many worries of terrorism flooding Americans' minds every day, the people of MSU do not need to dwell on the phenomenon known as agri-terrorism.