Uh, people, hello? Yes I wrote it, and yes it is satire. But I didn't make up the part about McCain assuring us he knew how to get Bin Laden.
It reminded me of a similar statement many, many years ago. Richard Nixon, campaigning for the presidency, told us he had "secret plan" to win the war in Vietnam. Like McCain, I'm old enough to remember that ploy, and I'm sure most of you are too young to have even heard it.

I suspect Dr. Boehm heard "100 miles square" instead of "100 square miles".

Jim:
Where have YOU heard that Republicans are "Warmongers? Do you mean ALL Republicans? Do you mean ALL Republicans throughout history? Some Republicans throughout history? or what? I wasn't around during WW1, so I can't say much about it. I was 7 when WW2 started but I do remember quite clearly that everyone I knew took active part in fighting the "Nazis and the Japs". And history records that it wasn't just everyone I knew, but damn nears every individual in the country took an active part, and were individually and personally affected by that war. So I feel certain that we all were "warmongers" then.

Perhaps you mean our current flock of goosestepping Republicans? In that case, I'd have to say "yes", since you all have bought into your Great Leader's lies about the threat that Iraq poses, and seem willing, nay anxious, to grant him a third term in which to continue the debacle, maim our chidren (the one's being recruited now were 10 years old when he started this) and drain our economy.

Actually, we have no way of knowing what Obama's vote would have been. He had no vote at the time. We know what he says he would have done, but that ain't the same thing. For all you know, he might have taken his favorite cop out ... "Present", if only from force of habit.

Absolutely nothing you said in your letter refutes in any way, the contention that there are already too many people in the world. Providing food and the basics of life, never mind luxuries, has become unsustainable. In fact, prosperity merely compounds the problem. With prosperity come increased consumption of resources and increased polution of all kind.