Change the primary system!

Saturday, January 05, 2008

To: The Detroit Free Press
Re: “Obama”, Jan. 5.


I was disappointed but not surprised to see the Free Press splatter the name Obama over its front page just because a handful and I do mean handful of farmers from Iowa favored Obama over the rest of the Democratic candidates. These few undiversified Iowans get to pick our presidential line-up because papers like the Free Press give them and their opinions an undeserved importance. Our primary system must be changed to give more Americans a voice in choosing who runs for president.

NO WIN IN IRAQ POSSIBLE!

Saturday, December 09, 2006

To: The Detroit News
Re: “Reject study group’s lack of principle, reality in Iraq”, Dec. 8.

Frank Beckmann is the one that needs a healthy dose of reality for suggesting a victory in Iraq is the only acceptable plan, “Reject study group’s lack of principle, reality in Iraq”, Dec. 8.

The old geezers in the Iraq Study Group are wise enough and politically independent enough, to call it as they see it and the war in Iraq can never be “won” and in hindsight, was un-winnable in the first place.

Mr. Beckmann needs to get of his high horse of principals and admit that the war was a mistake, a terribly ignorant miscalculation that needs to come to an end, if for no other reason than to save lives.

ONLY IRAQ DIVISION WILL WORK!

Monday, November 20, 2006


To: The Detroit Free Press
Re: “Victory? Increase troops?” Nov. 20.


Most agree that the escalating sectarian violence in Iraq must be controlled if the country is to have any hope of ever becoming a unified nation. Calls for dramatically increasing our troop level there as a means of creating peace among the opposing factions will not work, “Victory? Increase troops?” Nov. 20. Even if you had one American soldier for every Iraqi, you could not change how they feel and as soon as we left, those feelings would boil over into violence once again.

If we really care about the Iraqi people, we must put an end to the de facto civil war that is raging there. To do that, we must divide the country into Shiite, Sunni and Kurd areas with a weak central authority to distribute oil revenues between the three. The only way we can force the three Iraqi peoples to live together is to put Saddam Hussein back in power.

VOTERS SHOULD HAVE IDS - even in Detroit!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

To: The Detroit Free Press
Re: “ID law would affect voters unequally”, Nov. 14.


My mother lives in Detroit, is in her eighties and has never driven a car but she does have a photo ID card and votes regularly. To suggest to her that people like her are somehow incapable of obtaining and carrying a photo ID card is to insult her intelligence, “ID law would affect voters unequally”, Nov. 14.

UNIONS DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION !

Monday, November 13, 2006

To: The Detroit News
Re: “Unions remind Democrats they expect results”, Nov. 13.



I think it is somewhat presumptuous of unions to take the credit for Democratic victories in the last elections, “Unions remind Democrats they expect results”, Nov. 13. Organized labor has not been able to deliver Democratic votes for quite a few years now and this election was no exception; Americans voted against the war in Iraq and not to give unions more political clout. Victorious Democrats must remember who brought them to the dance and why. Ignoring the center and resuming the ole’ leftist union ways will only result in a very short dance.


Janusz M Szyszko