Letters to the Editor
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prunes:
No passive-aggressiveness in THAT comment, boy...
:-) Yes. Something tells me she's got plenty of research material real close to home.
BTW, I'm glad Glenn is posting their pictures. It's nice to be able to put the faces together with the chickenhawkery, and I can change the channel real fast whenever they appear on the teevee.
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and patanal's post inspired me, too
...though not to the degree that Presumptuous Insect was inspired.
I just imagined a new version of Mr. Potato Head. One designed especially for the war-mongerers.
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War Is Hell, Tim . . .
What really pisses me off is the way that Republican politicians and the rest of the war-supporters preface their remarks with "Well, Tim, I've been to Iraq eight times, and this time . . . ".
They say it as if they've just come back from flying 25 missions in the Memphis Belle.
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Who should volunteer?
"The president must issue a personal call for young Americans to volunteer to fight in the decisive conflict of this generation."
Bush should start with his two daughters to act as an example to others and volunteer. Then he should ask the other military age people in the Bush clan to volunteer. Then Romney's 5 military age sons, and then the Young Republicans. The last of these groups should provide all the troops we need.
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Nothing against fat people
Only against pudgy armchair militants like the Kagans who would never dream of getting in shape and enlist, but get off on sending other people to fight and die for absurd and totally unnecessary wars they concoct. Their debasement is so immense that they have the chutzpah to tell the troops that if they want to come home, they should fight their way back.
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I just got back
from the antiwar march in downtown DC. This article is a fair enough description of what I saw: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091500826_pf.html
I particularly love the quote from one of the pro-war counter-protesters: "We just want a chance to show America we don't agree with the vocal minority."
Deluded doesn't even begin to describe this mentality.
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Glenn gets defensive about being called, on critcising how people look. Tsk.
Glenn - I didn't make a single comment about their physical appearance. If the words "fat faces" popped into your head as part of the argument, blame yourself, not met. I used their official photographs from the AEI and Washington Post website.
Right. It's only coincidence that the first picture ever used on your column was a pudgy right winger about whom you said...
"Another picture is here. As has been noted many times before, those who have a never-ending need publicly to call into question the masculinity of others in order to make political points -- whether it be James Taranto, Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Reynolds -- are so frequently the precise antithesis of the virtues of traditional masculinity they accuse others of lacking. That this is so is neither surprising nor hard to decipher."
and directly mocked....
(5) Do you think that your physical appearance (see here) has anything to do with your need to mock publicly the masculinity of others?
And the second time you've posted a picture is ANOTHER pudgy righty, but expect noone to recall your previous slur? Tsk.
His physical appearance is not relevant to this argument, which is why only you -- but not me -- raised it.
LOL. Oh sure, that's why you took the trouble to post your second picture ever, in years of publication.
But his lack of service plainly is. There is something particularly inappropriate about someone who has never served in war and thus cannot fathom the strain it puts on people to be so dismissive of the need for extended breaks from multiple tours of duty. If he had been a war veteran, the argument would have been grounded in more than mere disdain.
Ah yes, no opinion about the military is valid without having been IN the military? I don't see any data about previous tour refreshments, no comparisons with other actions, just the "chickenhawk" slam. It doesn't get much lower than that.
Again, the "rhetoric" you are complaining about exists only in your head, which you're using to attribute to me thigngs I didn't say.
But you have evaluated Hemingway's worth by a photo and by using a photo here evoked the same criticism. These are after all the only two times you've used a picture and in the same vein of criticism. The commenter's inference is not surprising while your protestation of non-implication is not believable.
Nonetheless, I have written many, many times before about the personality types who are warmongers and how the relationship between their personality attributes and their twisted policies. I will definitely continue to do so. -- GlennGreenwald
Then I suggest you confine your criticisms to what they write, not how they look.
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Selective reporting
Gee, DCLaw1, why didn't you post this article from the Washington Post?
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/09/live_from_the_mall_why_huge_cr.html?hpid=topnews
Probably because it shows the anti-war protesters to be the disorganized, unrepresentative loons that they are.
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I Thought That, Too. But Then I Remembered Katrina...
Michael B. English:
Doesn't the military already keep track of this sort of thing?
I'm about 99.9 % sure that the US military already knows exactly how long any given soldier has spent inside a combat zone as opposed to on leave.
In fact, I would guess that the US military has been compiling this information on each and every one of its soldiers since World War ONE. It is simply a basic part of the information a modern army needs to perform its duties.
Yeah, right! Competence. Whatever.
Sure, that's how things certainly must have been done back in the 20th Century. But for BushCo, it would mean that they would have to go back to doing things the way Clinton did them. The mere fact that things had been done that way by every President in living memory would not make it one bit less of a bitter pill for them to swallow.
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re:
Glenn gets defensive about being called, on critcising how people look. Tsk.
Great letter, and it's precisely why my daughter has such a field day with Greenwald. He's so transparent--without, of course, realizing it.
He also has way too high an opinion of himself mixed with a sneering condescension towards anyone he doesn't like or disagrees with.
Classic stuff, this.