one angry liberal.
It's been awhile since we've handed out this prestigious award, but I do believe it is well earned this time around.
The latest recipients of the Go Fuck Yourself Award are any assholes who call anti-war protestors "treasonous" or any shitheel who has uttered the phrase "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" in reference to any anti-war protestors.
Newsflash! This is still America! I'm thankful for the fact that the Founding Fathers had enough sense to remove from power the yokels who believe the First Amendment is a subjective after-thought to government actions.
Newsflash! That war in Iraq? It ain't goin' so hot. I know the Crawford Cowboy loves to utter the most offensive phrase ever in defense of his folly in Iraq ("We're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here."). But let's not forget that he LIED about ther REASONS for going to war (WMD, 9/11, imminent threat, etc.). Never once did he say his reason was a "flypaper" strategy.
Sounds like another (my favorite Bushism from the debates) exaaaaaagerrrrrrrrrrrrationnnnnnnn! What a smug bonehead.
And let's just get the actual definition of treason out there, just for kicks:
Treason. A breach of allegiance to one's government, usually committed through levying war against such government or by giving aid or comfort to the enemy. The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Treason consists of two elements: adherence to the enemy, and rendering him aid and comfort. Cramer v. U. S., U.S.N.Y., 325 U.S. l, 65 S.Ct. 918, 9327 89 L.Ed. 1441. See 18 U.S.C.A. ยง 2381. A person can be convicted of treason only on the testimony of two witnesses, or confession in open court. Art. III, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution.
Protesting is not treason, you morons. Now let's move on...
If you wish to stand in support of the war, that's your prerogative and I'm hard-pressed to stop you. If you wish to stand in protest to the protestors, I really have no problem with that. But if you choose to load up on rhetoric of stupidity (treason, sedition, yada yada yada), then please go fuck thineself.
As an aside -- and this is important to mention -- I am not of the mind that Bush is beholden to meet with Cindy Sheehan. While I sympathize with any parent who has lost a son or daughter in combat (no matter their political views), I do not believe the president of the U.S. must be forced to meet her a second time (he already met with her once).
The president, however, must be held accountable for the absolute mess that's been made of Iraq. Hell, I knew this war was going to be messy. Yes, there are LOTS of Iraqis who welcomed Saddam's ouster, but who really expected it to be over in weeks? This administration has either been disingenuous or misleading about the war for quite some time and the American people are now catching up to it. Too bad the idiot Democrats couldn't and didn't articulate this message better a year ago.
As tempting as it is for the right, you can't blame the "liberal media elite" for the low military numbers. To me, that's a tell-tale sign that middle America is no longer buying into it. Rumsfeld, Bush, et al are truly treading on Baghdad Bob territory with some of the empty, meaningless rhetoric they're lobbing out there.
For better or worse, American citizens no longer have the stomach for a protracted, bloody war. It's unfair to compare this war to Vietnam or World War II because the enemy combatants are unlike any other. Given that reality, it seems our government entered into the war woefully unprepared for an insurgency of this nature.
We had all the guns, ammo, heavy artillery andbody armorwhoops! we needed to roll over Iraq.
They had us right where they wanted us.
I'm nervous that it's going to get worse before it gets better. There are far too many who support the war effort as though it's a football game.
I do believe the president is correct in saying pulling out of Iraq now would do more harm than good. But his correct assessment does not excuse the fact that he got us into an unneccesary war.
And my believing that and saying so as loudly as possible is not treasonous or seditious. It's patriotic, whether you like it or not.
Call me a traitor? Go fuck yourself. And be prepared to pick your teeth up off the ground.
The latest recipients of the Go Fuck Yourself Award are any assholes who call anti-war protestors "treasonous" or any shitheel who has uttered the phrase "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" in reference to any anti-war protestors.
Newsflash! This is still America! I'm thankful for the fact that the Founding Fathers had enough sense to remove from power the yokels who believe the First Amendment is a subjective after-thought to government actions.
Newsflash! That war in Iraq? It ain't goin' so hot. I know the Crawford Cowboy loves to utter the most offensive phrase ever in defense of his folly in Iraq ("We're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here."). But let's not forget that he LIED about ther REASONS for going to war (WMD, 9/11, imminent threat, etc.). Never once did he say his reason was a "flypaper" strategy.
Sounds like another (my favorite Bushism from the debates) exaaaaaagerrrrrrrrrrrrationnnnnnnn! What a smug bonehead.
And let's just get the actual definition of treason out there, just for kicks:
Treason. A breach of allegiance to one's government, usually committed through levying war against such government or by giving aid or comfort to the enemy. The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Treason consists of two elements: adherence to the enemy, and rendering him aid and comfort. Cramer v. U. S., U.S.N.Y., 325 U.S. l, 65 S.Ct. 918, 9327 89 L.Ed. 1441. See 18 U.S.C.A. ยง 2381. A person can be convicted of treason only on the testimony of two witnesses, or confession in open court. Art. III, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution.
Protesting is not treason, you morons. Now let's move on...
If you wish to stand in support of the war, that's your prerogative and I'm hard-pressed to stop you. If you wish to stand in protest to the protestors, I really have no problem with that. But if you choose to load up on rhetoric of stupidity (treason, sedition, yada yada yada), then please go fuck thineself.
As an aside -- and this is important to mention -- I am not of the mind that Bush is beholden to meet with Cindy Sheehan. While I sympathize with any parent who has lost a son or daughter in combat (no matter their political views), I do not believe the president of the U.S. must be forced to meet her a second time (he already met with her once).
The president, however, must be held accountable for the absolute mess that's been made of Iraq. Hell, I knew this war was going to be messy. Yes, there are LOTS of Iraqis who welcomed Saddam's ouster, but who really expected it to be over in weeks? This administration has either been disingenuous or misleading about the war for quite some time and the American people are now catching up to it. Too bad the idiot Democrats couldn't and didn't articulate this message better a year ago.
As tempting as it is for the right, you can't blame the "liberal media elite" for the low military numbers. To me, that's a tell-tale sign that middle America is no longer buying into it. Rumsfeld, Bush, et al are truly treading on Baghdad Bob territory with some of the empty, meaningless rhetoric they're lobbing out there.
For better or worse, American citizens no longer have the stomach for a protracted, bloody war. It's unfair to compare this war to Vietnam or World War II because the enemy combatants are unlike any other. Given that reality, it seems our government entered into the war woefully unprepared for an insurgency of this nature.
We had all the guns, ammo, heavy artillery and
They had us right where they wanted us.
I'm nervous that it's going to get worse before it gets better. There are far too many who support the war effort as though it's a football game.
I do believe the president is correct in saying pulling out of Iraq now would do more harm than good. But his correct assessment does not excuse the fact that he got us into an unneccesary war.
And my believing that and saying so as loudly as possible is not treasonous or seditious. It's patriotic, whether you like it or not.
Call me a traitor? Go fuck yourself. And be prepared to pick your teeth up off the ground.
