Word: traitors
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...open society. But let's conduct debates without personal attacks. I believe this Administration has made huge mistakes that we will be trying to repair for years to come. Let's challenge the Administration's policies without calling the sitting President an idiot or one of our generals a traitor. Jeff DuTeau, Kansas City...
...pretty tough, and the pun on the general's name is pretty witless. You could argue that since the verb betray and the noun traitor have the same root, the ad is accusing the head of American forces in Iraq of treason. The ad can also be interpreted - more plausibly if you consider the rest of the text - merely as questioning the general's honesty, not his patriotism. But whatever your interpretation of the ad, all the gasping for air and waving of scented handkerchiefs among the war's most enthusiastic supporters is pretty comical...
...PARIS-BORN JEW AND THE son of Polish immigrants, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger sparked plenty of controversy --especially as Archbishop of Paris. Despite feeling hurt by Jewish leaders who called him a traitor, Lustiger, the only modern Catholic prelate to be born Jewish (he converted at age 14), aggressively pursued a bridge-building agenda that included denouncing anti-Semitism and championing interfaith relations. Asked to sum up his life, Lustiger, whose mother died at Auschwitz, said he was "a Cardinal, a Jew and the son of an immigrant...
...loose and weird on the streets. But if I were in any way complicit in exposing the identity of a U.S. secret agent to our enemies during a time of war - which is in effect what happened with the outing of CIA operative Plame - I would be called a traitor and duckwalked to an electric chair, gas chamber or some form of lethal injection. Sterling Greenwood, ASPEN, COLORADO...
...prisons already. Besides, I don't feel any less safe with Scooter remaining loose and weird on the streets. But if I were somehow complicit in exposing the identity of a U.S. secret agent to our enemies during a time of war I would be called a traitor and duckwalked to an electric chair, gas chamber or some form of lethal injection...