European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside shrine attack deepens chasm the Dallas morning news there was not much left to the Golden mosque in Samarra after the 2006 bomb at tack on the major shiite but bombers wednesday managed to bring Down its surviving minarets anxious officials this attack May push iraqi society even closer to total it was the 2006 bombing of the Golden mosque that marked a significant turning Point in Iraq sectarian which had been kept in relative Check to that Point by shiite self restraint in the face of sunni prov since the Samarra mosque has been under guard by sunni Security forces prompting suspicions that wednesdays bombing was an inside the bombing Only increases iraqis Al ready deep distrust of governmental authorities and drives a greater wedge Between War ring the recent spate of strategic Bridge bombings by insurgents reveals the Baghdad government and its american allies to be All but powerless to protect Basic wednesdays violence underscores the Folly of a new Pentagon strategy to Arm sunni insurgents to fight Al Aida and counterbalance growing shiite military there Are few obvious solutions to this but clearly our strategy should seek to re Duce the number of weapons and killers not add to septembers coming bringing Iraq commander David Petraeus re port on the this will be followed by a fundamental reassessment in Congress of american prospects in absent any substantial Progress in the political and Security voters will wonder and justifiably so Why More american soldiers have to die and billions More tax dollars have to be spent to keep iraqis from doing what they seem bound and determined to do anyway commit National Sui red flags rightly raised the Washington Post president Bush has nominated James Holsinger to be the next surgeon Gen eral of the United his would be the leading voice on health issues in the and As he would be looked to for unbiased information grounded in sound science and tailored to the common that Why a 1991 paper written by Holsinger titled path physiology of male homosexuality has raised red Holsinger has had a distinguished Ca from 1969 to 1994 he worked in the department of veterans rising to undersecretary for health in from 1994 to Holsinger was Chancellor of the University of Kentucky medical he was appointed by Republican Ernie Fletcher in 2003 As Kentucky chief of health and family a Post he held until december 005 when he returned to the University of but his activity in the United methodist Church has earned him the ire of Gay groups across the it is not our place to Tell religions what their beliefs should or should not but that stricture does not apply when bigotry masquerades As Holsinger pre pared Patho physiology of male homosexuality for the committee to study homosexuality of the United methodist which was discussing whether to end the Church stance of not condoning path physiology was defined As abnormal to prove his argument that Gay sex was unhealthy and Holsinger prickly City by Scott Stantis in the logical complementarity of the human sexes has been so recognized in our culture that it has entered our vocabulary in the form of naming various pipe fit Tings either the male fitting or the female fit Ting depending upon which one interlocks within the is he a doctor or the Ace hardware Man Christina spokes woman at the department of health and human Holsinger re Mains focused on addressing the health of All in including Gay and lesbian Popula consistent with sound science and the Best medical senators who will meet with Holsinger when he makes the rounds on Capitol Hill this month need to determine at a mini mum whether his judgment of sound Sci ence and Best medical practices has improved since Man should be freed the Atlanta Journa Constitution on a Monroe county judge or dered Geri Arlow Wilsons ruling that a mandatory 10year prison sentence was a cruel and unusual punishment for con sensual Oral sex Between the announcement was greeted by tears and Joy from Wilsons Mother and and from thousands of supporters around the country outraged by such a Clear Case of in but that jubilation proved within an hour of the judges word came that Georgia attorney general Thurbert Baker would Appeal the judges ruling to the state supreme its unclear now whether the now21yearold Wilson will be freed Dur ing the Appeal this is said attorney Bern Stein As she read the notice of Bakers a its not just its a senseless because of a strange and unanticipated glitch in state Law that treated Oral sex As far More heinous than Wilson was charged with aggravated child that glitch has since been fixed by the general which made the conduct committed by Wilson a Mere Misdemeanour with a maximum jail term of 12 but Baker argues that Wilson was convicted under the old Law and his sentence should How Are the citizens of Georgia helped by making a teenager with no prior record re main in prison for a decade because of a poorly drawn Law no Victory if theres no Reform Poughkeepsie journal opponents of a sweeping immigration Bill Are kidding themselves if they equate Block age of this legislation with any sound minded legislation must in clude vigorous Steps to tighten the country but there also needs to be a Realis tic plan for dealing with the illegal Immi Grants already a bipartisan group of senators recently offered such a plan it would put millions of illegal immigrants on a rather lengthy Road to Legal recognition while blowing considerable resources into bolstering Border the plan is not but it should have been the starting Point for More discussion and Public procedural matters have blocked the Bill in the and the House of representatives is waiting to see what the Senate does president Bush who admirably has been seeking a Compromise for years faces quite a Challenge from members of his own party some Republican leaders equate provisions of the Bill to granting amnesty for illegal but that assertion ignores key features of the some including Hill Ary Rodham Clinton of new have taken Issue with other aspects of the say ing it Doest do enough to keep immigrant families the senators negotiating this Deal have offered a fair and the Bill deserves a better Fate than being killed by amendments or situation prevents a Pardon Chicago Tribune vice president Dick Cheney former chief of Lewis Scooter was sentenced june 5 to 30 months in prison for obstruction of Justice and lying to Fri that left Many of his friends gasping and has them pressing for president Bush to Pardon that  during his Libby neither acknowledged his crime nor expressed re he asked District judge Reggie Walton to along with the jury my whole the judge received More than 150 statements from Libby friends and colleagues pleading for be but by his Libby undermined the very system to which he dedicated his a question for those who seek to spare Libby from prison for lying under oath what did you have to say when president Clinton faced impeachment for lying under oath most you wanted Clinton Pun thirty months and a Fine is a stiff sentence for he has a Legal pro Cess to but Bush should steer Clear of this because he has a conflict of interest Libby was serving the political interests of the administration when he committed his because a Pardon would be As indefensible As some of the pardons Clinton issued As he exited the White logic on passport legs the Daify mews the Federal government is temporarily suspending its new travel restriction that since january has required citizens flying to and from the Caribbean and Bermuda to show the Bush administration announced june 8 that now until the end of september travellers will be allowed to reenter fee United states with a state department receipt showing Treyve applied for a Public outrage caused the administration to blink on this ill considered Secu Rity despite having years to the state department simply was not ready to process the flood of passport applications that began to pour in several months ago from citizens with summer trav Eling the backlog of applications reportedly numbers in the new applicants Are being told  have to wait 14 or More for some the Relief came too Jana Beilstein of Spokane told the los Angeles times that she was forced to cancel a cruise her husband had bought for their 25th wedding a Little foresight on the part of the government adding staff to handle the inevitable flood of passport applications probably could have saved Beilstein and any number of others a considerable amount of but nothing less than a permanent suspension of this passport Rule can head off the greater economic costs that will begin to accrue a couple of years from when the passports Are required for land and sea Bor Der can set tone on warming the Ledger president Bush is right any serious plan for counteracting global warming should in clude not Only the United states and but two of the globes most populous and polluting nations China and Germany had proposed that the group of the worlds major economic pursue Lon term targets for reducing the emissions primarily Carbon dioxide that Are believed to contribute to Glo bal Bush would agree to Only a a Tere Down declaration that said the United states would seriously consider mandatory environmental groups criticized the g8 declaration As but americans  assume the myth that tree Hugger Are the Only proponents of both mandatory reductions in emissions and Particia for the economist a Lon do based Magazine that strongly supports free Market policies recently called for the to participate in International agree ments to make the polluter pay by putting a Price on Carbon dioxide Bush has Long said he believes that the Pri vate sector and technology can help slow Glo bal warming and reduce its most scientists seem to but even ardent advocates of free Market policies recognize that the private sector is less Likely to adequately and rapidly invest in solutions with out incentives and leadership from the United