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' Friday November A4 The Herald journal r Our view 2003 21 adSfewfc RaCtoMTN Nevus a Back to the future be communist or ultra-leby the late 1980s Society will never return to1 standards of sexuthe ' ' al behavior' Meat will eventually become too expensive lor the average American household to serve ' Life expectancy will rise to (X) years or more by the year ft Wi doing sonic research deep in the bowels oj' The Herald Journal our boys tn the covert operations department ran across a news item v from the April 30 edition ol' the I IJ: The article ‘ ' 'I'-tlr'-- ’ pre-196- : - - im : ’ 1 7 2(XX) " ' Contact will be made with intelligent life from another planet — but not until the distant future Nuclear war is unlikely ever to break out between the United States and the Soviet Union "made predic- r 0s tions lor whai people could expect before the ear 2000 In 1979 nearly 201 KH) people took part in the futuristic survey which was conducted by Omni magaine See how mail) of these items have made headlines recently Within 20 ears tourists will be able to book passage on orbital space flights J" A woman will he elected One reader who recently received a bill for an obituary stopped by just to say that we must be glad that so many peo-pl- e die in the valley For once the newspaper actually has no comment :' ' president A computer will beat a human for the world chess 'championship hy 1985Tcrroristswil make their use of nuclear weapons in the 1980s A human being will be cloned beforethe end of the ' ' century Most of South America will in' 1992! VSMmn War critics miserable creatures By the way' welcome back and good luck) OK so the men's basketball team is called the Aggies The mascot is a male bovine a bull if you will And when the lady Aggies take the court their mascot will be J ' ' ' " ar” wrote John Stuart Mill one ‘of the 19th century’s greatest thinkers “js an ugly thing but not the ' ' things The decayed and degraded state of moraj and patriotic feel-- ! ing which thinks that 7 ' 7 nothing is Cemetery should be handled privately - ar - : nt : i ar - ' the north district — 840 S 1600 West 8 Lewiston 84320 S! Brian Chambers —representing the northeast district— 654 E 2160 North North Logan 84341 752-057- 4 ' John A Hansen the south district— : 252 EMain Hyrum ' 4 84319 Paul Cook r— representing the southeast district — 445 Glenwood Circle ' Providence 84332 752-- 1 964 Cory Yeates --representing Logan district No 1— 281 S 100 East Here is a list of addresses and phone numbers fpr some of Cache Valley's : representative? in government:- LOGAN-MAYO- 258-523- R ' Doug Thompson 1567Lynnwood 9 Ave Logari 753-689- COUNCIL Thomas Kerr:35 N 1 400 East 1 Logan 84321 Alan Allred 1535 E1500 North 7 Logan 84341753-822- 4 Steve Thompson 37 S: 200 West 9 Logan 84321 0 South PL Tami Pyfer LOGAN-MUNICIPA- 245-658- L ' 752-315- : Logan84321 753-601- 84321753-752- 9 Randy Watts 1110 N Cedar Heights Dr 84321 753r2023 CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL Darirel -- LeeGibbons representing - 752-902- 7 Kathy Robison Logari district No 2— 335 N 400 9 West Logan 84321 Craig Petersen —representing 753-510- Logan district No 3— 1440 E 1220 8 North Logan 84341 752-677- functprily profess their support for Anierican military personnel fight-in- g on their unworthy biehalf in Iraq1 ' Yet they derive acertain perverse satisfaction it seems with every fresh news report of a truck bomb- ' ing a helicopter crash a suicide attack To their minds those set- vindicate their oppositiiin to ' the wir before during and after the fall of Hussein's regime They sceil as the! realization °f their dire predictions that the war in Iraq would become a quagmire of Vietnam-lik- e proportions: Of course the comparisons are absurd For one thing the United States never managed to turn the Commu- nists out of power in Vietnam NoaSequitur -cetMT-- v II gtiwfw TMt W WoKKKlMT JN bo pres-!-ide- FLU SbNIffclLfcS ! 66 Yl ‘ v 40 cornu' RoWC' YOUR HJRK & MRC TMtM : rank-and-fi- oNlHfe tVXMC Of CNVit Htfwmuc CH? ar : ar - far-le- ft oF ! - cam-paig- : ar Union-Tribu- The Oprton page is intended to acquaint readers with a variety of viewports on matters ol putte importance and provide members ot the community with a kxxim tor their views Personal columns cartoons and letters from readers reflect the opesons of thev wnters and creators Editorials under the heading tXir Vwr represent the vows of the Herald Journal editorial board Members ol the edSonal board DARRELL EHRUCKcity editor CINDY YURTHleatures editor BRUCE SMrmpubhsher CHARLES McCOLLUM'managng edtor conclusions art more tiily to begatferti out of a multitude oj tongues le : SXb ctutew-TamxMKrtWMX Bush-bashin- state Herald Journal Nh CAK yrjsi as&tMawce m Bush-harin- t's The — iow k ng : worth'War is much worse ' position? “The person who has nothing for ' More importantly why is North which he is willing to fight ’’ Mili ' Logancity government involved continued “is a miserable creature ‘With a cemetery? Whileopportuni-fie- s ’To the editor: to spend other people’s money to and has no chance of being free ' Wednesdiiy morning’s paper made and kept so by the exer- ineiuded an article about the recently ' satisfy one’s own desires are admit'-- : ‘ tions of better men' than hj mself”-- ' I see no compelling' defeated ballot measure to create a 7 7 tedly seductive Thai statement brings to mind the North Logan Cemetery District In !'£ case for requiring lax payersto Con' anti-w— thosie stumping crowd tribute burial to the cost of supplying addition Tti condescending rcjiwksV'i 7 for the Democratic presidential plots if there exists' a demand for ! ! attributed to the city manager' ( inter- : nomination on those the opining burial sites beyond the capacity of V ' pfeted as “If those who opposed the " nation's liberal editorial pages and' ' the cemeteries ip existing valley: had'a better understandpleasure bad some enterprising private land owner those protesting on the streets of the' ihg of the issue it Would have ' ' nation's capital and other cities may profit from this opportunity passed’’) flic piece offers a state- ' the fair land be-This throughout not would I arrangement 'nient that find especially curious: in Miffs words miser- are as They in' unprecedented many privately “North Utgiin administrators are ' owned and the phieess of determining hoW long operated cemeteries exist " able creatures They think nothing is worth war not even the mass mur-- - throughout the countrythe city must wail before another' derof Logiingov-ernmeNorth xin I'm nearly 3XKX) of their fellow this issue" So I !' hopeful that vote itn be taken be will officials view' these adminislraoperimirid-e- d countrymen (and womenandchil- of guess the about this issue before burdening dren) on Sept :H 2(101 tors is “If the voters give xis the with citizens that a further have"ti answer we'll They have nothing for which they--- ' program wrong just ' ' ' are willing to fight not even to pre- -' can be handled satisfactorily in thekeep trying until they see the truth ' Vent a madman like $addam Hussein i)oes thismean that hadthe referent private sector from developing or acquiring chemir dum passed ihrise w ho’Tipposed the' ' '' Bill Workman : cal biological or nuclear Weapons measure' could cdnljnui to ask for J with which he could one day threatNorth Logaii ne W votes until the result favor their en the United States or her allies ' Those in the anti-wcrowd per- - ' Lawmakers Even some Democrats those who support their country and their during time of war were out- raged “If what has happened here is not treason” said Sen! Zell Miller D:Ga “it is its first Cousin" were g Then there arc the nearly' 15(X) percent more fatalities thaii opinion writers — and they know the United States has suffered in' who they are who insinuate that ' 'v: the commander in chief has someIraq! That’s not ip diminish in any way how lost the peace in Iraq because the loss of the nearly 400 heroic he supposedly neglected to consider American servicemen and women arr ‘‘exit strategy” ' who have fought and died in Iraq - Of Course the exit strategy those ' But the numbers ought to be put jourrialjstas havc in mind is to have ' into perspective For the reality is the' United States cut and run in more Americans have been killed in Iraq after only nine months orv the ground turning over postrwar reconstruction to the feckless Unit- - 7 ' " ed Nations 7V That would be viewed as a victory The oppbnents of the V r v by Saddam! loyalists by Al Qaeda and other terrorist operatives in ' :r7 the knee-jerkIraq Iraq who continue to mount their critics of the postwar ? T guerrilla attacks against US and 7" ' targets anticipating that repon struction revea I 'T r: coalitjon the attacks will lead to the calls the decayed and ctegrad-- we hear now from liberal very g of moraf arid opinion writers that US! ed troopsbe withdrawn patriotic feeling of which ' Finally lhere arC the ' anti-w(jphn Stuart) Mill wrote protesters the “useful idiots” as Lenin famously referred ' nearly two centuries ago to them: Some 10000 of them marched through thestreets of ': Los Angeles alone this year thaii ' ' Washington DC last month car-' - ' have been killed in Iraq' ! ry ing such banners as “£nd the The oppiisilion to the war in Iraq Occupation of Iraq” is less about principle — on the The anti-wprotest was parts of the- Democratic presidential outfit that calls ' ' a by hopefuls thc liberaKopinion page itself ANSWER Act Now to Stop writers the anti-wstreet protest- War arid End Racism ANSWER is ers — than it is about politics a frpnt group for the Workers Wprld For ihc politicos and jourrialislas Party which promotes socialist revarid activists who were bitter about olution the outcome of the 2000 presidential When ANSWER activists are not election who have never stopped busy advocating United States sur hating George W! Bush are the render to Saddam loyalists and Al same miserable creatures' who are so terrorists they are raising Qaeda n loudly decrying the pipstwar for funds their cainpaign to impeach in Iraq They almost don’t Presided! Bush care if the post-wreconstruction The opponents of the lraq war the in Iraq fails if Saddam returns to knee-jer- k critics of the postwar ' if the are once pOwier Iraqi people reveal the decayed reconstruction again subject to his genocidal rule and degraded state of moral and ' so long as theycan play the Iraq patriotic feeling of which Mill wrote card against Bush nearly lYvo centuries ago Indeed just last week a secret Their opposition their criticism is' strategy memo prepared by Democfueled not so much by reason but ratic staff on the supposedly nonparby hatred — toward their president tisan Senate Select Committee on or toward their country Intelligence suggested that Democrats ought to launch an investigation Joseph Perkins is a columnist for The of the White House next year to San Diego and can be have maximum impact on the presireached at Joseph Perkins dential ejection ' comhat-relatcd-Tha- ugliest of - Your view whereas Saddam’s regime lias been ousted in Iraq most of its officials cither killed or ’apprehended The United States suffered more than 5 8 (XX) fatalities in Vietnam1 some 47369 of which' high-ranki- “W So tonight’s the big opener Tor the' Utah State University wciinen’s basketball team (by - Joseph Perkins dum through arty hytd of autfumtatix selection '— ' r itataaisma The Herald Journal welcomes letters to the editor Potentially Kbelous or offensive tetters wUI not be pubtahed however and the editor reserves the right to edH a letters to conform to the length and style reqiarements of the newspaper Letters shotUd be: 7 ' Typewritten and w No mom than 450 words ei length Addressed and nctode daytime phone number tor purposes of verification Signed by the airihor Individuals are hmited to one published totter wittvn any y penod Address letters to hjlettor9tijnewscom Guest are also welcome and are run at the editor's dscretwn double-space- 30-da- W2-19b- l) |