Please critique my LTTE on terrorism and Iraq

[NewJeffCT]

Thanks

I'm responding one of the divorced from reality crowd out there who is claiming things in Iraq are super-super-super.

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Jay Stolfi of Burlington must not get much news out in Burlington. He claimed there have been zero terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11 while just the day before his letter was published, a pipe bomb was found outside a woman’s health clinic in Austin, Texas.

Starting only a week after 9/11 with the seemingly forgotten anthrax attacks, there has been nearly one terrorist incident per month inside the United States.

However, since a vast majority of these attacks involved attacks on women’s health clinics, white supremacist groups or neo-Nazi types, they got far less publicity and notoriety than would Arabic-speaking brown-skinned men. Or, perhaps the White House does not publicize these incidents because some of the perpetrators, like Timothy McVeigh before them, are registered Republicans?
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Source for the pipe bomb incident:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4753900.html

Also, I still need to find the source that had over 30 post 9/11 terror attacks in the US since 9/11 through 2005...

Here is the letter I'm responding to:

Zero. That's the number I think about each time I hear a report from the mainstream media regarding Iraq.

The typical report goes something like this: Two Marines died from a roadside bomb in Baghdad, while 12 Iraqi police were killed in an ambush.

Although never reported, I remind myself of zero, which is exactly the number of terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11. I would also like to think about the number of schools built in Iraq or the number of Iraqi women now allowed some measure of freedom. But the media rarely report these figures, so I have no way of knowing.

How about the number 13,000? That's the current record level of the Dow Jones industrial average we enjoy while safe at home listening to reports from Iraq.

more at link

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/letters/hc-letbox0427.artapr27,0,7348352.story?coll=hc-headlines-letters

[LisaM]

1. There was an attack on a Jewish services center in Seattle last year

One person was killed and five injured. An angry Pakistani man went in and just started shooting people.

I consider that a terrorist attack.

[zbdent]

2. Slight change to one sentence

where you have this:

"attacks on women’s health clinics, white supremacist groups or neo-Nazi types"

probably should read:

"attacks on women’s health clinics by white supremacist groups or neo-Nazi types"

or maybe:

"attacks on women’s health clinics, attacks by white supremacist groups or neo-Nazi types"

[NewJeffCT]

4. Not necessarily

The people behind the health clinic bombings may not be white supremacist types - could just be radical Operation Rescue or Fundie types.

[zbdent]

7. The second revision

is pointing out a separate class of terrorist attacks, along with the abortion clinic attacks ...

[zbdent]

3. also point out

that the "official list" of terrorist attacks no longer include car bombs (in Iraq), which would also nullify the RWers' attacks on Clinton citing the first WTC attack and the Khobar towers (which were by truck bombs) or the USS Cole (rubber-raft bomb), which was ignored by Bush ...

[NewJeffCT]

5. good point

that would also include the federal building in Oklahoma City.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. This paragraph here needs some work;

However, since a vast majority of these attacks involved attacks on women’s health clinics, white supremacist groups or neo-Nazi types, they got far less publicity and notoriety than would Arabic-speaking brown-skinned men. Or, perhaps the White House does not publicize these incidents because some of the perpetrators, like Timothy McVeigh before them, are registered Republicans?



Is is unclear and sort of long and convoluted.

Also, unless those cases of Attacks on women's health clinics were solved, then you are just assuming that they were perpetrated by neo-nazi or white supremist groups.

I would also drop the reference to McVeigh, since that was during Clinton's administration, and actually helps make the point of the letter you are refuting.

I would keep your points more focused. The previous writer is incorrect. There have been numerous terrorist attacks on Americans since 9/11. Anthrax and women's health clinics, etc.

3333 Dead Americans thanks to bush's war of lies.bush killed more Americans than the hijackers.

[EstimatedProphet]

8. I would try to work in this point:

Apparently he defines a 'terrorist attack' as a 'terrorist attack BY ARABS'. There's been plenty of terrorist attacks since 9/11, which you point out. Conveniently forgetting them all is racist at its core, because it effectively says that only Arabs/Muslims (same thing in a lot of shitheel's minds) really count as terrorists. So, it isn't all in just how it's reported - the original author is just as guilty of bigotry.

[madmom]

9. you could also point out that those of us who have to work minimum

wage jobs can't afford to play around in the stock market so dow jones means nothing to us.