Letters to the Editor
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poli-psych
(first, feel awful that you lost both your parents, it's hard to recover from that - i know i was at sea for years). both Mac and Lyndon knew it was wrong nearly from the beginning. they both couldn't admit it. no mea culpa can forgive that. i will admit that i was wrong. i supported the war at first, but i called it Operation Smack Iraq and wanted to call in the UN as soon as we won. if we had done so (maybe) the moslems would have been terrified of us for years (after all, we had just "beaten"(well, the northern alliance - but we supplied air power) the mujahadin in afghanistan which had beaten the russians). but the war diverged from my scenario - as it often does when you rush in off-cocked (not even half-cocked). BUT, i'm not in a position of power. i think that those who really want power are the least suitable in having it - and what do you do then?
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How about, "REAL MEN"?...
Subtitle:
"THE REAL REPUBLICAN WARRIOR CLASS"
As a first commenter, let me thank you, Glenn, for all you do.
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Hornet Driver
So behind your rationale, the first war Bush lost was on September 11, 201 correct?
Come to think of it, you shouldn't spend your energy fighting Americans, even if they are Democrats. When do you go back to Iraq to do some more fighting against the terrorists that hate our freedom?
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blunderdog
Maybe it's not a good idea to be projecting our power all over the globe if we're going to end up losing all these wars all the time.
You misunderstand. The purpose of these wars is not to 'win' them, and certainly not to 'win them for Democracy', and not necessarily even to plunder the victim or to enable additional plundering of adjacent victims.
It's war profiteering. All the insiders from Halliburton and the Carlyle Group know this to be true. It's what they do.
Defense contractors don't have a lot of lobbyists. They just put their own guys in the government, so a lot of lobbyists aren't needed. It's a great cost-saving strategy to have the government pay the salaries of your employees.
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Gay Old Party
My book title:
Gay Old Party
How the GOP uses Gay Icons and Homoerotic Imagery to Win!
I think the whole cult of masculinity has been driven to an extreme. The fastest growing sport in this country right now is that kick-boxing in the octagon. It is the most homoerotic thing I have ever seen, except for gay porn. They even use the terms "top" and "bottom" to denote the position of the players.
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hornet driver
So what did the Great Saint Reagan do when a couple hundred marines died in Lebanon? Why he turned and left.
What did St. Reagan do to the Iranian regime which had just illegally held American citizens hostage? Why he sold them weapons!
The bombers of the WTC were caught, tried and convicted by the Clinton Administration. Please list all the people caught and convicted of anything relating to 9-11 by Bush.
Your claim that "two of them were Iraqi" demonstrates a curious lack of comprehension of the laws of war. That constitutes causus beli to you? What kind of warmongering lunacy is this? Perhaps sitting high and dry in your F-18 war doesn't seem that bad to you, though I would hope a pilot wouldn't live up to the ground soldier view of them.
Finally, as to the Cole, this is the single most non-sensical line that Bush worshippers use to attack Clinton. The cole was attacked in November 2000. So in the two months of lame duck presidency he had left, you think Clinton should have started a war? (the small problem of "with whom?" I will leave as an exercise to the reader). Well Bush Sr. did that to him, and Somalia was the result, which I'm sure you lay the blame on Clinton for everything that went wrong there too. Anyway, the big question is: If Clinton is a weak president for not responding to the cole in the two months he had left, what does that say about Bush for not responding to it in 8 months prior to 9-11? I'd say it makes him at least 4 times as weak.
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Hornet Driver
is synonymous with Fudge Packer but that name was already taken on Salon by Senator Craig.
You like driving it home, dontcha' fly boy? It gets your microscopic Willis almost visible, eh?
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Who Performed Military Service
Democrats
David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, etc
Jimmy Carter: Lt. Commander in the Navy 1946-53
Wesley Clark: Army 1966-2000, Vietnam, Silver star, purple heart
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver/Bronze stars, Vietnam
Bill Clinton: Did not serve
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze star
Michael Dukakis: Army 1955-57
John Edwards: Did not serve
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs; Air Medal w/18 Clusters
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam as journalist
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74
Howell Heflin: Silver star
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze star
Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver/Bronze stars, purple hearts
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII
Jim McDermott: Navy 1968-70
George McGovern: Silver star & DFC during WWII
Zell Miller: Marine Corps, 1953-56
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-53
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver star, etc
Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze star, Korea
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-79; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91
Chuck Robb: U.S. Marine Corps, 1961-70, Vietnam
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart
Republicans
Spencer Abraham: Did not serve
Eliot Abrams: Did not serve
Richard Armitage: Navy, three tours in Vietnam
John Ashcroft: Did not serve
Roy Blunt: Did not serve
Michael Bloomberg: Did not serve
George H.W. Bush: Youngest Navy pilot in WW II; awarded DFC
George W. Bush: Texas Air Nat. Guard; didn't take physical; suspended from flying
Jeb Bush: Did not serve
Saxby Chambliss: Did not serve. Attacked Cleland's patriotism
Dick Cheney: Did not serve
Christopher Cox: Did not serve
Tom DeLay: Did not serve
Bob Dole: Army in WWII, Bronze star, two purple hearts
Bob Dornan: Enlisted after fighting was over in Korea
John Engler: Did not serve
Douglas Feith: Did not serve
Gerald Ford: Lt. Commander, Navy in WWII
Bill Frist: Did not serve
Newt Gingrich: Did not serve
Rudy Giuliani: Did not serve
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer
Phil Gramm: Did not serve
Chuck Hagel: Served in Vietnam, two Bronze stars and purple heart
Dennis Hastert: Did not serve
Tim Hutchison: Did not serve
Jack Kemp: Did not serve. "Knee problem," continued in NFL for 8 years
Jon Kyl: Did not serve
Trent Lott: Did not serve
Richard Lugar: Intelligence officer in Navy 1957-60
John McCain: POW in Vietnam, Legion of Merit, Silver star, DFC, many more
Mitch McConnell: Did not serve
John McHugh: Did not serve
George Pataki: Did not serve
Richard Perle: Did not serve
Colin Powell: 35 years in Army, 4-star general
Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard
Ronald Reagan: Served in WWII making movies
Tom Ridge: Army in Vietnam, Bronze star
Dana Rohrabacher: Did not serve
Karl Rove: Did not serve
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor
Rick Santorum: Did not serve
Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base
Richard Shelby: Did not serve
JC Watts: Did not serve
Vin Weber: Did not serve
Paul Wolfowitz: Did not serve
'Nuff said.