Some readers hate reading the negative email I get, others love it. Yesterday I posted a crackpot letter and some readers asked if all of them were like that. No, but quite a lot of them are. Here are two — sent to my syndicated column address — that are more representative of negative email:

Dear Jonah,
I read your article yesterday. Despite your ramblings on about 12 different subjects, I get the point about who is to say who has “moral authority.” We all view the world thru our own particular filters and bias. Even you. I think what Mrs. Sheehan is doing is commendable. She is doing what you cowards in the press failed to do. (Or should I say “chickenhawks”). She is demanding to know what justification was used to place her son at risk of his life. And the President and nitwits like you come up with lie after lie. Let’s see, oh, 9-11 involved jihadist from Saudi Arabia. Not Sadam Hussein. Oh, there was no WMD’s. Oh, Niger wasn’t selling uranium to Iraq. Just tell the frigin truth. And don’t allow your being Jewish to mask your hatred for the Muslims that want your annihilation. The truth is, there are no Muslims or Jews, Poles or Mexicans. There is only an identity that we create, so as to be different, that produces war and strife. Grow up!!!!!

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Didn’t Bush say that god told him he was doing the right thing in Iraq?
You want to talk about morals.
Let see…… Bush has violated the constitution because only congress can declare war.
He invaded Iraq and has changed the reason we are there from WOMD, to Liberation, to building democracy, to fighting terrorist. I call that lying. What do you call it?
I do not recall one Iraqi on the 911 Jets although the administration has given the false impression they were involved.
Innocents are dying in Iraq based on lies of WOMD by the Bush administration while Bin Laden is a free man.
You said you need proof that the Iraq invasion was about oil.
As a journalist I would think you have plenty of proof available to you.
Lets look at a few well known facts that are very easy to verify.
Bush and 17 members of his cabinet have or have had there hand in the oil business. No coincidence?
No coincidence I guess the new energy bill just gave billions of tax dollars to the oil industry which is making record profits right now.
Saddam was moving to the Euro and out of US dollars in pricing oil right before the invasion which would of collapsed the dollar. Unlike Bush’s pals the Saudi’s who send there profits back to the US by buying US securities. Petrodollars.
Just a coincidence I guess companies like Halliburton and Bechtel (Bush relations) have landed huge government contracts in Iraq and other spots where there is oil.
Although completely unreported by the U.S. media and government, the answer to the Iraq enigma is simple yet shocking — it is in large part an oil currency war.
The real proof comes in the fact that the other “two axis of evil” unlike Iraq, Iran and North Korea admit to having nuclear capabilities and Bush has done nothing.
Cindy Sheehan is asking the questions that reporters and journalist like yourself are afraid to ask but many Americans as myself want answers to. Why?
Bush only appears and faces friendly GOP’s and military crowds who are ordered to silence.
Bush is a coward and will always be a coward until he faces the other half of America and answers some simple questions for instance; as to the real reason Americans dying in Iraq and how will Americans know we have accomplished his goal whatever it is.
If Iraq is such a “great and noble cause” to quote the president, Bush should be more than willing to expound its virtues to Americans.