Letters to the Editor
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Holy crap
"The people that voted and the soldiers that are dying are on V's side. Not yours."
-joe
Damn, if he believes this, he'll never understand what's going on. A state military policing a civil war in a foreign country is on the same side as an anarchist terrorist? Oookkkay.
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Check out the comments at townhall.com
Glenn has linked the transcript of the interview, but to save you the look-see here it is again:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=d7f52e21-cf46-4115-b397-ed1dc70fcdab
I urge everyone to go there and read the comments. A couple of the HH fans weigh in to show they did not hear the actual interview; they heard something like blah-blah-blah-surrender-blah-blah-blah-white flag and so on.
What will it take to get through to the hard core 30%?
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...call me a son of a bitch or something
It's all so good, and I do think my favorite part is where, as Glenn quotes, Odom says: WO: Yes, we should pay attention sometimes, but I can -- I'd pay attention to that, and when I do, I see that it's very much really the way Kim Jung Il uses his rhetoric. He knows how to cause us to jump up in the air and get all excited, and cause people of your frame of mind, and particularly the neocons' frame of mind, to start doing things that are not in the U.S. interests.
But I also loved this:
HH: Now General, you are a distinguished and long-serving member of the American military, in the Military Hall of Fame, you’re a Lt. General. I actually served alongside of you in the Reagan administration when you were running NSA. So I mean no disrespect by this next question.
WO: Yeah, you’re obviously going to call me a son of a bitch or something.
HH: No, I’m not. No, I’m not, General. I would never do that....
[Giggle] Make Hugh crawl, General, make him crawl. And like Odom would give a rat's @ss if the likes of Hugh Hewitt did call him that...Odom wasn't even taking him all that seriously, telling him to hurry up because he (Odom) was running out of time. The general treated Hugh Hewitt exactly as one should, namely, like a deceitful adolescent who doesn't know any of what he thinks he does about the world.
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Hmm.
"Plus, we ignored Bin Laden for years and didn't really think he would do much and look what happened. If they could have gotten a nuclear weapon they would have used it on 9/11."
Actually, this isn't true. There were quite a few people who were aware of the threat posed by bin Laden — remember "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"? (Here's the link, just in case: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/.) The Bush administration had it spelled out to them numerous times, and elected to ignore the threat.
Glenn, thank you for the amazing work you're doing here. I look forward to your bog updates every day, and it made my day to read the Hewitt/Odom transcript. I agree with other writes — more Odom! We need him out there!
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"V" was the victory analogy in all civil strife's?
I think the resistant movement in the Civil War (the movie NYGangs) used the "V" for Victory in opposition to the draft?
They got 'mowed down' by the new york cops. Draft resistent by the 'privates,' then, in the Civil War, died on the city streets. Soldiers died in fields in extended tours and baloney-rogue/rove "surge" politic-chatter, then.
Sort of ot, Davey Crockett was a legendary frontiersman. He was elected to congress in 1827 and served three terms. Returning home to Tennessee (I think of Chris Floyd?) he was asked about the habits of the damn Washingtonians. "They have breakfast when the sun is up one or two hours high." "The fellas don't do a half/day's work. Then. they have what they call 'lunch.' "Then, at night they eat supper." Davey Crockett shot at moving targets when he had to shoot-Game. From a a large course of thought....repartee...earthquakes...lies, and continually hearing of more wars. sheeze, Davey Hit the target when he aimed. He (Glenn) never tried be unfair or punch below the proverbial belt? Good shot. We need more fir-skin hats to tip each other with? Surrender and tap dance if bullets start stirring up the dust at the boot level.
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Glenn...
I'll leave the rhetorical cowardice to you. You seem in capable of getting past your own limited view.
My point, possibly to subtle for you, was that you love to hold up a past Reagan General thinking it further validates your views. Would you hold Petrays' views as highly since he's in the military? Probably not.
I don't believe the military is at fault. I also don't believe that being in the military automatically makes your viewpoint correct on either side. Do you believe that?
I blame our enemies fr fighting against the representative government in Iraq not our administration for doing what's right.
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oil for food?
My favorite part is when HH is reduced to bring up "discovery of the oil-for-food scandal" as a reason for the invasion. Hilarious (also, sad, of course). And did you notice how HH tried to push the nonsense that US withdrawal from Vietnam was responsible for the Khmer Rouge crimes, when it was really the US attack on Cambodia that precipitated their takeover (as Odom rightly suggests)? The likes of HH are just amazingly insulated from reality, both historical and current.
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steve_e...
Did you not understand that the an easy analogy in V is to a government that was like Iraq under Saddam?
I now that here most people thought V was a documentary about Bush but it really was just a movie.
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the 30%
There is NO way to get trough to the 30%. The only thing we can do is get them out of power, marginalize their Ideas, and try to make sure they never gain contol of the country again.
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Joe:
I don't believe the military is at fault.
Then what did you mean when you said: "especially considering Iraq, that military people's opinions are of less value." Why would the opinions of military people be of "less value" as a result of Iraq? Step up and explain what you meant by that.
I also don't believe that being in the military automatically makes your viewpoint correct on either side. Do you believe that?
If I thought that any opinion that comes out of Gen. Odom's mouth should be considered "automatically" correct, then I would not have excerpt at length the rationale for his opinion. What is notable -- and what I was praising -- is not merely that Gen. Odom holds certain views, but the rationale he offers to support those views. Isn't that obvious?