it starts with a V...
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a few things....
the marines are slashing combat training in half. does anyone remember the last time this happened?
hint: it starts with a "V" and ends with "IETNAM".
paul krugman is becoming one of my favorite reads, along with my usual suspects that i've talked about before. this column, the rambo coalition, is another winner.
excerpt:
All the credible evidence, from military records to the testimony of those who served with Mr. Kerry, confirms his wartime heroism. Why, then, are some veterans willing to join the smear campaign? Because they are angry about his later statements against the war. Yet making those statements was itself a heroic act - and what he said then rings truer than ever.
The young John Kerry spoke of leaders who sent others to their deaths because they wanted to seem tough, then "left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude." Fifteen months after George Bush strutted around in his flight suit, more and more Americans are echoing Gen. Anthony Zinni, who received a standing ovation from an audience of Marine and Navy officers when he talked about the debacle in Iraq and said of those who served in Vietnam: "We heard the garbage and the lies, and we saw the sacrifice. I ask you, is it happening again?"
Mr. Kerry also spoke of the moral cost of an ill-conceived war - of the atrocities soldiers find themselves committing when they can't tell friend from foe. Two words: Abu Ghraib.
Let's hope that this latest campaign of garbage and lies - initially financed by a Texas Republican close to Karl Rove, and running an ad featuring an "independent" veteran who turns out to have served on a Bush campaign committee - leads to a backlash against Mr. Bush. If it doesn't, here's the message we'll be sending to Americans who serve their country: If you tell the truth, your courage and sacrifice count for nothing.
Jon Stewart was, as usual, in brilliant form last night. If you're still in a frame of mind that'll let you laugh at the insanity that's currently masquerading as a presidential campaign, stop by here and download the clips. it'll be worth the bandwidth, i promise.
in the meantime, i submit these for your approval:
a few things....
the marines are slashing combat training in half. does anyone remember the last time this happened?
hint: it starts with a "V" and ends with "IETNAM".
paul krugman is becoming one of my favorite reads, along with my usual suspects that i've talked about before. this column, the rambo coalition, is another winner.
excerpt:
All the credible evidence, from military records to the testimony of those who served with Mr. Kerry, confirms his wartime heroism. Why, then, are some veterans willing to join the smear campaign? Because they are angry about his later statements against the war. Yet making those statements was itself a heroic act - and what he said then rings truer than ever.
The young John Kerry spoke of leaders who sent others to their deaths because they wanted to seem tough, then "left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude." Fifteen months after George Bush strutted around in his flight suit, more and more Americans are echoing Gen. Anthony Zinni, who received a standing ovation from an audience of Marine and Navy officers when he talked about the debacle in Iraq and said of those who served in Vietnam: "We heard the garbage and the lies, and we saw the sacrifice. I ask you, is it happening again?"
Mr. Kerry also spoke of the moral cost of an ill-conceived war - of the atrocities soldiers find themselves committing when they can't tell friend from foe. Two words: Abu Ghraib.
Let's hope that this latest campaign of garbage and lies - initially financed by a Texas Republican close to Karl Rove, and running an ad featuring an "independent" veteran who turns out to have served on a Bush campaign committee - leads to a backlash against Mr. Bush. If it doesn't, here's the message we'll be sending to Americans who serve their country: If you tell the truth, your courage and sacrifice count for nothing.
Jon Stewart was, as usual, in brilliant form last night. If you're still in a frame of mind that'll let you laugh at the insanity that's currently masquerading as a presidential campaign, stop by here and download the clips. it'll be worth the bandwidth, i promise.
in the meantime, i submit these for your approval:
posted by tom at 16:40
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