The anti-war whispers
I know something about the anti-war protests of the last Iraq War, often times finding myself in the center armed with nothing but my camera. And, yeah, now that Obama has begun it’s second term safely, some of the anti-war creatures from the last decade’s protests are raising their slimy heads, a little. John Kerry spoke to them recently;
If I were John Kerry, I wouldn’t mention his own history as an anti-war socket puppet. That’s what defeated him in the 2004 presidential election. I do, however, find it delicious irony that he has to school Code Pink on ISIS to get his point across and that they interrupt him during his windbag lecture pointing out their hypocrisy on the entire issue because they support ISIS.
Howard Kurtz discusses the cautious whispers in the media against this, the latest deployment of troops to Iraq.
These days, of course, the press seems to be prodding a reluctant president into war. The coverage of ISIS and the endless re-running of images from the beheading videos caused a surge in public support for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. But not everyone in the fourth estate is saluting.
Chris Matthews may be the most visible of the naysayers. He used his MSNBC show to deride “this wild, angry push for war, another one in the land of Islam.”
There was more: “Here we go again, going in with all the field marshals of the op-ed pages urging us on. All the tongues, wagging, demanding, that the United States get itself right back in the middle of the latest outrage from Mesopotamia…
“And yes, the bombs will work. People will die. There will be pictures in the world press of mothers holding babies and the wounded in their hospital beds, and there will be an outcry against us.”
Yes, I don’t like this latest deployment, but not because I’m wringing my hands over the brutality of it all, but because, no matter how many US troops will find themselves in Iraq for this third war, they won’t be allowed to fight the war that needs to be fought – for the third time.
But, here come the kneejerk anti-war crowd who only oppose war because it’s war and they’re on the heels of the knee-jerk Democrats who think that war can be managed and made palatable to the American public, despite the fact that they’re preparing us for five years or mare of war in Iraq, once again.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Media
The shoe, on the other foot.
It burns!
I sincerely hope for all of the liberal groups to turn on each other and make their side of the political spectrum irreparably implode!!
I was taught never to strike a female, but I think Cindy Sheehan constitutes a valid exception.
As far as Matthews, what happened to the famous tingle up his leg?
My guess is he moved around some, and restored the interrupted circulation. To his brain.
These anti-war clowns can all eat a bag of dicks. I haven’t seen near as much hand wringing and Kumbayah singing as when the previous administration was doing its “war mongering.” Fuck Medea and her band of merry idiots. I wish she was still in the rat hole Egyptian prison.
The anti-war crowd of today are cut from the same cloth as those from the 60’s and 70’s. Scum of the earth….all.
Kerry’s problem is that (and I can STILL hear him definitively pronounce GINNNNN JISSSSS KHAN during those Congressional hearings) he married Teresa when he would have been much happier hooked up with the like-minded Jane Fonda.
Scum-bags!
Just like many of the antiwar fleabags of the 60s and 70s now masquerade as Vets, I wonder how many currently-antiwar toad-snot swamp donkeys we’ll see posing as OEF and OIF Vets in the future?
“toad-snot swamp donkeys” – lol – I have to remember that one!!
Great comment.
Five to one or more. In other words,all those w/the weak ass excuses why they have not joined the military now.Next cenus the phonies will outnumber the A-stan and Sandbox warriors. I forgot they will also have better war stories. Joe
I’m certain that you’re right, and I’m willing to bet that EVERY one of them will be Airborne Ranger, SF, Recon Scout SniperSEAL or some variant thereof..
GOD Help America.
Too bad the m’fer didn’t come right out and say his testimony and that of the others in 1971 were outright lies, instead. Joke time! sKerry driving around on an Army base in a POV, flapping his gums and is clocked doing 50 in 25MPH zone. MP unit pulls him over, ask for license, registration and insurance certificate. sKeery argues, turns them over then MP writes citation returning all documents.
MP is patiently waiting on sKerry to sign citation and, when he finally does, MP leans over and says; “Hey, why the long face?”.
Yuk yuk!
You know these dopes have cut the umbilical cord from reality when even Jimmy Carter says ISIS/ISIL is evil and needs to hunted down and crushed. He did, on Tuesday in Atlanta. You gotta be bad when Jimmy the muslim liver hates you.
I have a great idea.
Let’s say the boots on the ground thingy gets the go-ahead. Okay, but those who have already put in their time in the Middle East really do deserve to not have a second or third – whatever – go-round, right?
So let’s round up ALL the phony SOBs who claim they’ve BTDT in whatever capacity, as the special snowflakes that they are, give them armor, guns and ammo, and haul their flabby asses over there on a real deployment.
For food and water supplies, they can each have a 7-day, 3 MREs per day. supply plus a box of cookies or cheese crackers – their choice – and 5 gallons of water each, which they can load into an old Army surplus canteen from the horse cavalry.
In return, they get pay, shots, and passports, and a SPESHUL special award for going over there and shooting at the ISers, PLUS, they get their very own reality TV show and camera peeps, transmitted weekly from the raggedy front.
Afterwards, whoever survives gets a TP parade in Los Angeles and dinner at the hot dog wagon at Paramount Studios while their exciting adventures are retold on camera.
How’s that sound?
Works for me.
Ultimately I do want the war against ISIS to succeed and I don’t want to go tripping over the bloated corpses of the phonies every other step when I inevitably have to go back.
Understood, sweetie, but they get to go in first to pave the way for your efforts.
The useful pave, the useless only litter.
The useless also require logistical support (food, water, medical care, other administrative support).
In fairness the useful need those things as well, it just isn’t wasted on them.
True. But the logistical system can only support so many deployed personnel. And that support is damned costly.
I have no issue with supporting those who are needed for the mission. Needless strap-hangers and 5th wheels, on the other hand . . . .
Yeah, but I was very specific about what they get for logistics and medical. I could probably have added a basic pet first aid kit, but I didn’t want to weigh them down, since most of them already outweigh the guns they’ll have to carry.
The good stuff is held back for the useful.
Ex-PH2: you know damn well that when one of those “fine fellows” gets a hangnail they’re going to scream for MEDEVAC. And given the number of “round ranger” and “round Marine” types in that group, they’ll almost certainly go through their 21 MREs in a couple of days and be screaming for more. MREs aren’t cheap.
Besides, as 68W58 pointed out above someone will just have to clean up after them if they go first and screw up by the numbers.
I say send ’em to Africa to assist in the Ebola control mission instead. That looks like it’s gonna be an absolute goat-rope anyway, so they’ll fit right in – and free up actual military personnel for something esle. Leave warfighting to those who know what they’re doing.
Ex-PH2: how about we round up all the phonies and send THEIR asses to West Africa instead of serving members of the military?
They can come back if they (1) survive, and (2) after a 30-day quarantine on the Dry Tortugas.
Leadership won’t be a problem, nor will competence. After all: we’ve seen a load of GOs/FOs and senior officers/NCOs in that group. And most of them were SPECOPS, too – so they’ll be competent as hell. Guaranteed success!
(Damn, I’m getting good at spouting ridiculous satire w/o falling out of my chair laughing. I hardly chuckled while writing that last para.)
(Damn, I’m getting good at spouting ridiculous satire w/o falling out of my chair laughing. I hardly chuckled while writing that last para.)
Hondo – that’s the reason I installed a seat belt on my chair.
Fine with me.
We’ll start with Blobfish, the phony CPO, that phony counselor in New England, Tesla, Weeble, Cody, and just keep loading them onto the planes.
Ex-PH2 … I do believe you’ve come up with the plot of the next new reality show!