Velma Berger – 7/26/06

This page was last updated on July 26, 2006.

Not feeling any safer; Velma Berger; Beaver County Times; July 26, 2006.

This is the latest in a series of at least 12 Bush and Iraqi-bashing letters written by Ms. Berger dating back more than a year. In one letter, Ms. Berger told us she was proud of John Murtha.

Below is a detailed critique of the letter.

“A recent editorial cartoon showed the NASA shuttle with a box of Band-Aids for repairs. It brought to mind a terrorist alert announced by Tom Ridge when he was head of the Homeland Security. He suggested everyone buy duct tape for safeguarding their homes.

“What a joke.”

[RWC] Not exactly. According to CNN, the recommendation was “Americans should have an emergency kit on hand including water, food, radios and plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal doors and windows if needed.” Even that reporting was a little off the mark. The plastic sheeting and duct tape was to seal off a “safe room” within the house, not to seal off the entire house. Why is that a joke?

“I wonder what the people who purchased all that duct tape are doing with it. Somehow I don’t feel any safer.

“Our president was right when he said he was a war president. Ever since he said ‘Bring it on,’ things have gone downhill.”

[RWC] “[S]ince he said ‘Bring it on’?” Does anyone believe Ms. Berger wasn’t cursing President Bush beginning the second he was elected?

“As of last Wednesday, we have lost 2,550 servicemen and women, and this president still has 915 days left in office.”