OPINIONS: Men can have them

Two recent pieces in The Press call for comment: A letter from Dan Gressler and a My Turn column from his wife. Ladies first.

Mrs. Gressler’s column is one of the most arrogant pieces I have yet seen. She dismisses several men as having no right to an opinion on abortion since they can’t be mothers. I’ve got news. I’m not a Jew but I deny anyone’s right to tell me I can’t speak out against the Nazi holocaust for that (or any other) reason. I can and will continue to speak out against both of these atrocities as occasions arise. And, in the first place, what right does Mrs. Gressler have to tell anyone that they can’t speak on any subject?

Mr. Gressler’s letter is nothing more than his usual adoration of Mr. Obama. It contains no facts, no evidence, nothing to support that adoration. There is a laughable suggestion that he’s responsible for recent stock market advances. I must ask: What, exactly, did Obama do to accomplish this? Then again a reference or two to Bush’s lies but not a word about the recent discovery of Saddam’s WMDs in Iraq. And why did they need to be discovered? It was well known that Saddam had them. He used them against his own people — the Kurds. What is not well published by the liberal media is that Kerry, Pelosi and Hillary, among others, all made a significant speech about the dangers of Saddam’s WMDs.

I’m glad to hear Mr. Gressler has no problems with the VA. Various publications (the American Legion magazine, for example) are full of cases with considerable problems. And could he please enlighten us with just one example of the lies told by Fox News? Or are those just lies under the liberal definition?

Finally, I must disagree with his opinion that no one who has not been in the military in a war zone has anything significant to say about deserters, Iraq, the border and the VA. That is also plain arrogance. By the way I spent some time in the Philippines through much of 1945 prior to the dropping of the big bombs which rendered our training for the invasion of Japan no longer necessary.

May I have an opinion?

PHIL MEMBURY

Coeur d’Alene