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What’s wrong with this picture?; Jane Delanko; Beaver County Times; October 23, 2011.
Between September 2004 and September 2007, the BCT published at least eight letters from Ms. Delanko (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). All bashed the Bush administration in one form or another and the last six were about getting out of Iraq. Since then, we haven’t heard a peep from Ms. Delanko about Iraq. Letters since 2007 include one complaining about Gov. Tom Corbett (3/21/11) and one in 2010 when Ms. Delanko supported U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire (D-4) for voting against Obamacare because “this law will be throwing the elderly under the bus” (“Health-care reform will hurt the elderly,” 4/1/10). Given Ms. Delanko’s history of repeating Democrat talking points, the 2010 letter surprised me a bit until I read a BCT article a couple of months later. In “Memories of steel” (Larissa Theodore, Beaver County Times; June 23, 2010), I learned Ms. Delanko was 81 years old.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Our country is sending millions of dollars to Afghanistan, and $10 million a day is being stolen and falling into the wrong hands, but the government is trying to cut Social Security and Medicare.
“The Afghanistan arms are shooting our soldiers. What’s wrong with this picture?”
[RWC] Ms. Delanko hasn’t complained about Iraq or Afghanistan since 2007. Why now? FYI, “millions of dollars to Afghanistan, and $10 million a day” is a drop in the bucket compared to what we’re spending on Medicare and Socialist Security.
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