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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Dear
Green Friends, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">I
almost laughed out loud when I read Jonah Goldberg’s commentary about
“fear-mongering” and “hype” on global warming (“Cooling Off Costs Too Much,” by
Jonah Goldberg, LATimes, February 8, 2007).<span style="">
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Interesting
choice of words.<span style=""> </span>This comes exactly two
years to the day from Goldberg’s wager with Juan Cole:<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><i><span style="">“…</span>let's
make a bet. I predict that Iraq won't have a civil war, that it will have a
viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two
years time, agree that the war was worth it…” </i></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><i>-- Jonah Goldberg, February 8, 2005.</i> <span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Here
are samples of Goldberg’s “hype” of Mr. Bush’s War: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText">April 23, 2002: “Why Iraq?<span style=""> </span>Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some
small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the
world we mean business.” </div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText">January 29, 2003:<span style="">
</span>“In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of
mine would ask me almost every day, "Why aren't we killing people
yet?" And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most
important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill
people.”</div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText">October 20, 2003: “<span class="qa">Q:</span> If you're the
leader of a peaceful and prosperous nation which serves as the last best hope
of humanity and the backbone of international stability and a bunch of fanatics
murder thousands of your people on your own soil, what's one of the smartest
thing you can do?<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText"><span class="qa">A:</span> Knock the crap out of Iraq. </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">Why Iraq? … Why not?"<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">The
distinguished editors of the Los Angeles Times, in their Chicago Tribune
corporate Republican majesty, have deemed this “wisdom” </span>that the good
people of Los Angeles cannot do without.<span style="">
</span>Voters have fired the worst of Bush’s crew in Congress.<span style=""> </span>Now it’s time to fire Jonah Goldberg. </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">Send Letters to the L.A. Times at <a href="mailto:letters@latimes.com">letters@latimes.com</a>. </div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">I have
posted “diaries” on this matter on: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/08/18359492.php">www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/08/18359492.php</a>
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<div class="MsoPlainText">and also on: </div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/8/165555/1243">www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/8/165555/1243</a>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Truly
yours, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Alex
Walker <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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