Comments on: Bush’s Contempt for Our Soldiers

By: They’ve got to be kidding « Chris Tackett’s Blog

They’ve got to be kidding « Chris Tackett’s Blog — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:44:48 +0000

[...] UPDATE 2: SusanUnPC at Larry Franklin’s blog draws some interesting parallels that are worth noting. [...]

By: Thinker

Thinker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:46:52 +0000

Susan, as I mentioned in my other reply I see double standards creeping in here. When you send hired killers…and call them what you will, our nations finest, upright soldiers, when you send hired killers out into society expect bad things to happen. I think this recent event will put things in perspective.

Today in Perth a young woman was air lifted to hospital with critcal injuries. She apparently had hopped over the fence of her neighbour’s house to rescue a puppy in distress. And this puppy really was in distress. It was about to become a meal for two starving big bull mastifs. Unfortunately, in her charity, the woman became a much more favourable object as a much needed meal.

The police, for once, arrived in time and attemped to tazer the dogs to no avail and they were eventually shot.

Was the dogs owner wrong in starving his/her dogs to provide an extra perceived level of sercurity? The dogs were there to protect the premises and a woman trespassed. Although she trespassed in good will, following her conscience to rescue a little puppy in distress. Now apply that analogy to the troops in Iraq. The troops are the big dogs and the Iraq innocents are the young woman following her conscience.

The owner of the home in Perth felt there was a need for security and there are certainly criminal elements in Perth as there are in Iraq. But when security defies conscience isn’t that an attack on God? Isn’t that the time to say we must stop this?

I love your posts about withdrawing the troops no questions asked, but any attempt to validate their role I cannot accept.

By: OleHippieChick

OleHippieChick — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:31:53 +0000

“Criminal conspiracy.”

Put IT back on the table, Nancy.

By: mudkitty

mudkitty — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:25:23 +0000

Look, then it means Bush is incompetent.

By: Delia

Delia — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:23:55 +0000

Unfortunately, everyone, according to TPM, McClellan doesn’t have the spine to go after his old boss after all. Today his publisher is assuring everyone that all he’s saying is that Bush unknowingly misled him. Of course he did. False alarm. Go back to sleep. Georgie is an honorable man. So are they all, all honorable men.

Shit.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/11/publisher_of_mc.php

By: SusanUnPC

SusanUnPC — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:19:38 +0000

YES! WE CAN HOPE! I could post some quotable about it but I’d far rather read what Larry has to say on the entire matter since Larry is a true expert on the entire chronology, and minutae, of the case.

By: SusanUnPC

SusanUnPC — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:17:24 +0000

A legend in his own mind.

By: Donovan Fraser

Donovan Fraser — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:22:30 +0000

I saw this McClellan thing and i am so happy for Valerie and Joe. Finally the truth is oozing out of this miasma called the bush administration.Of course it takes another one of these bums peddling a book to get the truth, but I’ll take it never the less.
if Bush and Company makes it through his term WITHOUT being brought to IMPEACHMENT or charges, then we don’t deserve to be called a nation of laws and we should just shut our pie holes on preaching democracy .

What do you have to do to get impeached in this day and age? screw sheep on the white house lawn in front of FOXNEWS camera’s while saying there is no God?
WTF?

By: mudkitty

mudkitty — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:26:05 +0000

I imagine Mr. Johnson will be spending quite a bit of time over the holiday, planning what he’s going to write about what McClellan has to say, in his upcoming book, about the Valerie Wilson/CIA Opporative leak.

By: Taters

Taters — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:02:13 +0000

I recall as a child in Japan seeing WW2 Japanese veterans blinded or missing limbs that were begging in the street, still in their uniforms. We have seen that kind of shameful treatment here with our Vietnam and Gulf War vets. Our veterans deserve better.

Sadly, there is a signature wound of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, perhaps the equivalent of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Brain Injury Trauma.

Even Stalin funded soldiers who had suffered from BIT. Not for compassionate reasons, simply to get them back in the field. The father of neuropsychology, Alexandr Luria, was a pioneer in the field of brain injury trauma.

http://www.pubserv.com/mitecs/pdf/cole.pdf#search=’stalin%20neuropsychology%20brain%20injury’

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-03-brain-trauma-lede_x.htm