Viewpoints:
End
in sight in Iraq?
The
recent deaths of Saddam Hussein’s sons, Odai and Qusai,
at the hands of U.S. troops should be seen as a positive
development in “Operation Iraqi Freedom” and
the overall War on Terror. These two monsters alone were
responsible for much carnage, murder and rape of their own
people and were also the alleged instigators of recent attack
on American troops. Certainly we cannot rest until Hussein,
bin Laden and other such terror leaders are captured or
killed. But perhaps the death of these two terror kingpins
will help restore some semblance of order in Iraq, thus
quickening the withdrawal of our troops. DBJ
ITC
ruling good for catfish industry
The recent ruling by the International Trade Commission,
which stated that the American catfish industry has been
significantly harmed by exporters of Vietnamese fish, is
an excellent one. The U.S. Department of Commerce, which
imposed tariffs in June, ruled that Vietnamese exporters
had dumped catfish on the American market at unfairly low
prices and the ITC concurred, giving the final verdict.
Our own catfish farmers in America were hurt badly—losing
some 20 percent of a $590 million market—by the Vietnamese
catfish, called Basa. Now, the Vietnamese are crying “foul!”
over what they are claiming is unfair trade practice. To
that, we at the DBJ say “Tough Phenom Phen!”
A communist country invoking free trade principles to hurt
our Delta farmers is a total joke. DBJ
Transgender
surgery for convicts? Oh boy/girl, what next?
We don’t know how many of our readers saw the coverage
of the New York State convict who has gone to court to demand
that taxpayers provide him with a sex change operation.
His reasoning is that he is a woman trapped in a man’s
body and wants to be transferred to serve out his sentence
in the women’s prison.
The fact that the presiding judge didn’t throw out
the suit as frivolous gives us some indication of the IQ
of the judge himself. If it weren’t for the expense
of a lawsuit to the taxpayers, this kind of farce would
be highly amusing. Maybe everyone who doesn’t have
health insurance should commit a crime (carefully estimated
as to the length of the sentence) and go to prison just
long enough to get all of their health care needs paid for
by the state. DBJ
