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From The Online Weekly Standard Top Ten Letters of the week:

*7*

Joel Engel, is a poor, misguided fool (An Ordinary Citizen Calls a Press Conference). He has deluded himself into believing that his opinion counts as much as George Clooney's or Susan Sarandon's. What an idiot. Clooney, Sarandon, and the other very important people he mentions, have spent years studying acting, and no telling how many years reviewing documents, reading learned treatises, and obtaining degrees in government and political science. Why, I would bet my last dollar that every last one of them read the New York Times and WP from front to back every day! Engel probably doesn't even have a subscription to Daily Variety. And yet, he has the nerve, nay, the unmitigated gall to hold his own press conference and express opinions that are probably held by a mere 70 or 80 percent of ordinary, hard-working Americans. No wonder the mass media failed to show up.

--Mike Webster


*8*

I was stuck in D.C. traffic the other day, thanks to an antiwar protest on the Key Bridge. (Jonathan V. Last, Freedom, at Home and Abroad) The supposed reason for launching the protest was to disrupt the lives of persons working in Washington so that they could realize how the lives of Baghdad's citizens were being disrupted by the war. If true, that's fine. But let's at least play fair. If the goal is to feel what life is like in Iraq, then I say let the police beat the hell out of the protestors to show them what life in Baghdad is like if you protest against the government.

--Sean Pugh