Published: June 24, 2009 08:16 am      

Letters for June 24, 2009

To want Obama to fail despicable

Barack Obama is the chief executive and leader of the United States of America. To desire that he fail in his duties is to express malevolence toward our nation and contempt for her future.

I suspect that William Eckardt's ego is not so fireproof as to protect him from awareness of this truth, for his mad rants (Letters, June 6) are the outcries of a tormented soul.

Mr. Eckardt: You need not fear the waterboard. Guilt and shame have drowned you already.

Robert Garfield

Oneonta

{"headlinelight18"/}Letter doesn't deserve reply

With regard to the "genius" (funny, I forgot his name already) who responded on June 9 to my letter concerning the new O-Tigers, your letter does not deserve a reply. In and of itself, it confirms your ignorance!

Dave Perkins

Milford

Soldiers give us freedom to write

This is the first time that I am writing an opinion to a newspaper.

As I read through Jim O'Leary's letter, I became more and more upset. I have stated the reasons why.

The killings in Haditha were indeed sickening, but as Mr. O'Leary stated, weren't the Marines "returning fire"? Also, these noncombatants, women and children could have been booby-trapped.

How is a soldier to determine that? In times of war, I'm sure self-preservation is on the minds of every soldier in battle.

Then again, we don't know just how many soldiers have paid with their lives because they were not careful.

As for Colin Powell's "My American Journal" and his account of Lt. Wm. Calley's platoon, this was just a very small part of thousands of our armed forces who have treated the natives with kindness, gifts and friendship.

Oh, yes, we don't hear much about that, do we?

Get a life, Mr. O'Leary, and try to see what's good out there. You might be surprised!

God bless all the men and women who have served in the military in our country. If it weren't for them, you and I wouldn't be free to write these letters to the newspaper.

Joan M. Lehn

Franklin

Schools waste too much paper

Schools seem to be wasting paper faster than any other sort of business or corporation. With the new technologies that we have there has to be a better way for a school to distribute learning materials to students. School is a waste of paper because whenever a student gets a paper, most of the time it goes straight to the garbage.

People talk about being green, but the more trees we use, the less green we are being, and using paper isn't being green at all. Teachers need to stop using so much paper and use computers to store their information. It would also make things less cluttered on everyone's desk and working space. It has always been a pet peeve of mine that people throw away so much paper and no one says anything about it. The state has to do something about it and make some kind of regulations on how much paper a school can get and that would have to force schools to use more computers rather than paper.

There is much talk about green energy, but there is nothing being done. Most of the problem is in schools, and that's where it needs to start.

Jordan Williams

Burlington Flats

Williams is a senior at Edmeston Central School and wrote this letter as part of James Smith's Participation in Government class.