Sunday, July 3, 2005
"Remember Petey"10:55:16 AM |
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The Bush Administration: Balancing Facts with Fiction since 2001My friend Amy and I were talking tonight about politics (of course!)
and PBS, in particular this outrageous piece of propaganda they aired
on our local station, "Three Days in Baghdad,"that
listed one man, Bob Ray, as writer, director, producer, editor, and
narrator. Amy said they aired it to give "balance," now that Kenneth
Tomlinson is in charge. I answered with "Yep, they've got to balance
those facts with fiction!" 2:49:54 AM | That made us both laugh out loud.
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To all the keyboard kommandos out there in cyberspaceOpen comment to all the neocon yahoos in the blogosphere who insist us
liberals "hurt our troops" and make their jobs more difficult when we
criticize the president and his policies. Well, my husband is a troop
and I think I know better what hurts him. 1:31:35 AM | The fact that the army doesn't have enough uparmored hummers hurts him. He and his team have to ride around Asadabad in unarmored Ford Ranger pick-ups, or if they're lucky, unarmored hummers. The fact that we had to buy him a bullet proof vest, radios for his team, and batteries to run those radios hurts him. Somehow there's enough money to pay Halliburton bonuses, though they've overcharged us by millions, but there isn't enough money to give ETT teams radios. The fact that the army, especially the national guard, has been so badly broken hurts him. His unit, the only national guard infantry unit to be activated in Vietnam, has been split apart and shattered to fill in the voids left by other splintered units. The fact that we will not have health insurance the minute he steps off the plane, if he's lucky enough to come home okay, hurts him. And this is just insult to injury given how piss poor the coverage really is. Groups of neocon wackos like you who put "I heart Gitmo" stickers on your cars and yellow magnets made in China, and who support Bush as if he were God, hurt him. I can't believe you people aren't condemning Move America Forward and their Gitmo paraphernalia, but you jumped all over Newsweek for printing a story the Pentagon had approved. Tell me how that "supports" our troops. Do you honestly think Newsweek circulated around Afghanistan and caused riots but pictures of SUVs with "I love Gitmo" stickers won't? Give me a break. Tell me how it makes sense to invite "terrorists" into Iraq to fight our soldiers, and tell me how this doesn't prove that you think soldiers' lives are worthless. Tell me this strategy isn't a slap in the face of the Iraqis, the people we're supposedly liberating, and tell me how it doesn't make it even more difficult for the new Iraqi government to become legitimate in the eyes of its own people. Tell me how it is justified to kill countless civilians with your crooked, morally bankrupt strategy. Then tell me how "live bait" is a winning strategy when there aren't a finite number of terrorists. Please oh please prove to me that there are only a handful of terrorists left to kill and there will never be any more after we've killed them. And then keep giving excuses why you won't go fight them yourself. If you already served in the military you're a prime candidate to go back in the service. They'd love to have you. My husband's been in for seventeen years. You're never too old to serve a righteous cause, right? The guard will take you up to 59. Sign back up, brothers. Put your asses on the line for the righteous cause. They need you. Be warned, though; this is not the same army you left. If you've never served, there's no time like the present. I hear they're offering excellent signing bonuses. And of course, you finally get to shed your yellow, cowardly exterior. You think you support the troops, but really you believe that soldiers are worthless. So worthless they deserve the shotty treatment they've received (lack of equipment, supplies, support at home including health care -- if you still don't believe me, send me your address and I'll send you our bills) and the worst sort of betrayal, a war plan that has no plan. There's a reason why the military has to keep reducing their goals for recruitment. And you know those reenlistment numbers? They include stop-lossed soldiers and those who've been forced, unvoluntarily, to stay in country after their contracts have expired. If you cared about the military at all you'd oppose this administration. They've done everything in their power to break the army. They've done a good job of doing just that with the national guard and reserve troops, of which my husband is one. Don't tell me how I hate America because I'm opposed to Bush. I'd ask you not to insult me that way, but then that would be foolish. Everything you believe in and stand for insults me.
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