What happened to the Communist Party?
Few Republicans criticized the president for telling a female reporter, “Quiet, little piggy!”
Six members of Congress reminded service members that they should not comply with clearly illegal orders, and the president and other Republicans responded by condemning the members and calling for an FBI investigation. Don’t they know about the Nuremberg War Trials? (The “but I was just following orders” defense doesn’t work there.)
The prohibition against refusing a manifestly unlawful order appears not only in the Uniform Code of Military Justice but also on a sign in front of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Next, we bombed ships in the Caribbean without providing any evidence that specific individuals on those specific ships were actually guilty of drug crimes. For the survivors, the instruction from “above” is to “kill them all.”
Let us remember that we are not “at war,” and only Congress can call for one. Congress has not done so.
The silence from most Republicans is deafening.
Christo Garabov, Franklin
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Trump should return to supporting universal health care
When President Donald Trump ran against Pat Buchanan for the Reform Party nomination, his policy agenda was similar to his current one, but he also favored Medicare for All.
The current budget crisis caused by Obamacare’s subsidies to private health insurance companies is a unique opportunity to get people to enroll in health insurance at premiums based on their income. This would be cheaper because Medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurance.
Populists should like this concept. Trump may want to return to his original vision.
Jim Rohrer, Fort Atkinson, retired professor of public health
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