Great catch, Dailypundit!
Y’know, I like the name of that last signatory quite a bit: “Ivona Xiezopolski.” Kinda trips off the tongue, don’t it? Perhaps Saddam can use it as the pen name for his next novel. Provided a Daisycutter hasn’t turned him into desert spam before he’s finish writing it, of course.
<a href=”http://atrios.blogspot.com/2002_06_23_atrios_archive.html#78213293″>http://atrios.blogspot.com/2002_06_23_atrios_archive.html#78213293</a>
for a better example.
Actually, I wouldn’t call it a <i>better</i> example, but an example of the <i>same</i> sort of tactics being practiced by the other side. The dishonesty comes from the fact that these “form letters” are really <i>petitions</i>, but they are sent out in such a way that they seem to be individually-penned letters-to-the-editor. It’s a minor dishonesty (people sending out these letters presumably agree with their content just as much as signers of petitions do), but it’s a lie all the same. I don’t care who does it or for what cause.