Letters to the Editor

I love to read the Public Forum in the Salt Lake Tribune. I know some of you out there are wincing at the mere mention of the Trib. Still, when you read something once - it's easy to dismiss. Read it everyday and well.... This little gem was in Sunday's Public Forum.

A Neocon Checklist

Directions for supporting the troops the neocon-artist way:

1. Fabricate intelligence to scare the people into pre-emptive war with an enemy who had no connections to 9/11 terrorists, and denounce the pacifists as unpatriotic.
2. Spend more than half of the country's discretionary budget on defense (not including pre-emptive wars).
3. Make sure that special interest contractors get plenty of the war dollars.
4. Decrease funding for veteran benefits and make sure to extend tours of duty on a whim.
5. Advocate for huge tax cuts while increasing defense and military spending.
6. Ignore the American people and veto war-spending bills sent you by Congress.
7. When facts about the bad policies surface, claim they are all politically motivated.
8. Threaten that anything less than continued war will "embolden the enemy."
9. Continually change the rationale for the war, making sure to keep troops there as long as possible.
10. Ignore the wishes of the majority of the now "democratic" Iraqi citizens.

Rob Ross
Sandy