Letters to the Editor
Flashheart
Published Letters: 69
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Yet another parallel with a certain central European nation
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I found this to be particularly interesting:
Not only did they do this in complete secrecy from Congress, they refused even to allow Executive Branch officials who were told to follow orders to see the legal basis for what they were told to do. Addington, whom Goldsmith described as "someone who spoke for and acted with the full backing of the powerful vice president," would simply demand compliance with what Cheney wanted.
I seem to recall a similar situation where high level bureaucrats were directed to follow orders without having seen the written version of them. They gathered at the Wannsee Conference and forumulated the plan...without ever seeing the written order from the top. They were just told to do it.
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About Ledeen...
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have long felt that the appropriate way to deal with Ledeen is have a couple of studly 11B types throw his worthless ass against a wall a half dozen times and we'll see just how much he likes it.
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On Shooter's humility...
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter242, isn't a little humility in order here in light of your grievous misrepresentation of ElBaradei's remarks to The Independent?
It's not likely that you'll get the cretinous little brownshirt to demonstrate some humility, any more than you would get if you asked the deserting coward in the White House to do so.
Just not in the nature of these despicable creatures.
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Obviously Glenn is on to something...
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...given how many are so taken aback by Glenn's juxtaposition of Hemingway's words with his appearance.
Hemingway IS attempting to compensate for something, as most of these military avoiding cheerleaders for more blood spilling are.
Just look at their Dear Leader, who specifically said he was unwilling to serve outside the confines of CONUS when his generation's war was beckoning to him in the ricepaddies of Indochina.
All hat, no cattle indeed.
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On the military career of Commander CooCoo Bananas...
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anoymous the Top Gun wrote:
If you spit on that, then you spit on the service of every single soldier, sailor, airman and Marine who served during the Cold War but didn't see any actual combat because of where he was stationed or what his MOS was.
No, I spit on officers who desert. They set the example, so the penalty for their criminal acts should be very high indeed.
George W Bush is a deserter. John Kerry and Al Gore went to 'Nam; George W Bush plainy marked his dream sheet as "don't wanna leave the confines of CONUS"...and then got his flight status revoked, transferred to Alabama, and neglected to put in his weekends. With no consequences at all.
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Orson...
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...said that "Accusations of hypocrisy are inadmissible in legal and scientific debate"
Yeah, but this isn't a legal debate, and this isn't a scientific debate.
It's politics.
Which means that hypocrisy and accusations of hypocrisy are very much in play.
Nice try.
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Keep searching for a gotcha, though.
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too late, Orson.
Your butt has been pwned.
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My proposed tiltle
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just thought of one:
Movement Conservatives and the Deathly Shallows.
In honor of the demise of the Dark Lord in the universe of Harry Potter.
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The only "Winter Soldier Fraud" I see here...
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is being perpetrated by another Roman name war crimes apologist troll.
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Boy, do we have a thickhead here...
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...in this Glenholder fellow.
Cripes, can't figure out the analogy.
Thick, thick, thick in the tradition of Gilderoy Lockheart...
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On the singular of troops...
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't the singular of 'troop', trooper?
It may well be, but when the drill sergeant calls you a troop, rather than a trooper, it is very unwise to correct his grammar. Particularly in formation.
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Someone upthread...
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I can't recall who (apologies, etc) nailed the real issue here.
The parasitical ruling class needed a new "existential" threat when the commies unexpectedly collapsed in 1989, and finaly, on 9/11/01 found something they could sink their teeth into.
So now we have "Islamofascism" as an existential threat to our corporate way of life. It's clear that the freedoms the founders were after are secondary considerations, given all that has happened over the last six years.
Therefore we must jump up and down and scream on a 24/7 basis about the insidious threat posed by Keith Ellison and anyone else who dares to not embrace with the fullest possible throatedness the one true faith of Jeebus-endorsed Mammonism.
Their worthelss little toadies like shooter, Elephantman, and Golden Boy are evangelizing as much as they can how we are in such mortal danger. If Osama bin Laden didn't exist, they'd have to invent him.
Meanwhile, as wealth disparities continue to erode stability, fostering the very terrorists they say they oppose, we're all supposed to look the other way to the external threat, when the real problem is that the ruling class has itself been hijacked by short sighted greedy fools who are hoping to profit by the sale of the rope with which they will eventually be hanged.
Franklin Roosevelt saved their asses once. They idiots vilified him for it.