Call me crazy, but I just don't believe the official story of Sept. 11, 2001. I believe Flight 93 was shot down, resulting in the wreckage coming down in three locations up to eight miles apart. And why did the U.S. Air Force stand down in New York? Was it al-Qaida? Was it the confusion stemming from multiple war games and military exercises?
On Sept. 11, 2001, within 148 minutes, 2,973 people died. Today, 1,825 days later, about 2,660 Americans in Iraq, 330 Americans in Afghanistan and about 41,650 Iraqis have died. I know to each family and friend these are more than just numbers. To television networks, they're ratings. To everyone else, it just makes us cross our fingers or pray a little more for one reason or anoth
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Editor, UNM is commemorating the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, in an odd way - odd for an institution of higher learning and education, that is. Senior CIA analyst Emile A. Nakhleh has been invited to tell us how things are going five years into the big war of the neo-conservatives.
Editor, I share James Post's disdain expressed in Thursday's issue of the Daily Lobo for the negative ads that we see during elections, but I have to point out that Madrid is doing the same thing as Wilson. In one of her ads she states, "We have been in Iraq for 3 1/2 years and still no strategy.
Editor, In his column in Friday's Daily Lobo, Mario Hernandez argued that all good Christians should support raising taxes to spend far more money on foreign aid, child health care and preschool. As a committed Christian who happens to support these three items as budget priorities, I am still disturbed by Hernandez's stance and tone.
Editor, While I found Whitney J. Davis' article on Wal-Mart in Wednesday's Daily Lobo one of the most informative articles that your paper has produced, the root problem of Wal-Mart is the government, not Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is only playing the same game as the rest of corporate America.
We are all hypocrites, every last one of us. Every person in every country of the world has been guilty of not following his or her word. This is human nature - nothing more and nothing less. However, hypocrisy can take a violent spin toward becoming overwhelmingly negative.
Editor, In response to Dave Bergeron's letter to the editor in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo, I would refer him - and President Bush for that matter - to the words of the great wartime leader, Harry Truman. In his farewell address to the American people, Truman stated that "the president - whoever he is - has to decide.
Editor, When I was a boy in the early '50s, my family lived in student housing at New Mexico A & M - now NMSU - in Las Cruces. My best buddy and next door neighbor was Charles Madrid, whose little sister, Patricia, is running for our nation's Congress. Over the years, I have watched the Madrid family build itself a good and successful working-class American life through their own hard work, intelligence, education, courage, honesty and family solidarity.
Editor, This is a brief response to Jason Darensburg's letter published in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo. He was not very fair in generalizing that "college is mostly for rich kids with no value system." I am originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, and this assumption does not apply to me.
Editor, Thanks for the article in the Aug. 29 Daily Lobo exposing proposed federal budget cuts that would eviscerate student work-study and Pell Grant programs. However, Kathleen O'Keefe, interim director of student financial aid, did not adequately address the way the proposed cuts will affect UNM students.
Wal-Mart has spent the last few years in the public bull's-eye. Some claim Wal-Mart is being attacked simply because it is the biggest retailer with the highest profits. Although being the biggest comes with much more public scrutiny - and thus more responsibility to be socially aware - being the best is not necessarily a corporate death sentence in our capitalism-loving society. However, the case against Wal-Mart does in fact have strong points.
Editor, I found the article on nonviolent protests in Thursday's Daily Lobo interesting. I was a student at the time, and the protests were violent. What was even more interesting was the number of nonstudents involved. People arrested at the SUB included street people and high school students.
Editor, Raquel Cordova's letter in Friday's Daily Lobo inspired me because of my similar experience last fall. Though there is no policy requiring it, my department offered to let me use its comprehensive-exam room as a location to pump while I was away from my 6-month-old daughter.
Editor, In John Steiner's letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo, he uses four examples of failures that he attributes to the Bush administration: knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plans, failure to evacuate people from New Orleans, failure to handle post-Katrina New Orleans properly, and a loss of pensions due to criminal wrongdoing by a number of corporate officers.
Editor, As an avid Daily Lobo reader, it did my radical heart good to see Thursday's installment of the three-part series, "From the Archives." In the early '70s, there were massive anti-war protests throughout the country, even at UNM. Students literally fought hand-to-hand with riot police over the prosecution of the Vietnam War.
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