The bit where he was talking about yes, he’s got contacts in Zarqawi’s organization, and he’s been taken on these privileged little trips to meet with them and all the rest of it…

Ware, on these “privileged little trips” of his, in his own words:

I was kidnapped by them, dragged out of my car, and a group of Syrian fighters for Zarqawi were preparing to execute me on the street here in Baghdad. So I’ve been with Zarqawi’s people in a number of different forms.

…

And it’s always very confusing. You’re often blindfolded. You’re often shoved down in the back of a car. You’re often driven around for what seems like hours just to confuse you. You’re shifted from place to place. You’re constantly kept disorientated and confused, and you’re constantly being challenged and tested. I mean, on three occasions, I was present when a discussion took place about whether I should be killed or sold, or goodness knows what else, and my fate has rested in their hands while they talk about this around me in a language I don’t understand.

Talk about a “moral vacuum.”

They already have the ‘Con’ in conservative. Can’t have too many meanings in it.

=my2c

Where is our mindless fear that should be directing us?

You listening, Jonah? Ben?

I think that is what we are seeing here, that in order to care about this issue, these conservatives have to create a direct connection to the issue, no matter how absurd.

Talk about putting the “con” in conservative…

I’m just not going live my life afraid, and I’m not prepared to watch the principles upon which my country was founded be abandoned because of this type of militaristic fearmongering.

Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt are two of the more execrable examples of those who would destroy America and American values.

I heard Hewitt smearing that Wade guy, the Australian war correspondent the other night. Hugh should have been honored to even be talking to Wade, much less on the same show as him. And for him to try to paint this brave newsman as some sort of enemy collaborator just because he has interviewed some of the insurgents is beyond ridiculous. It’s insulting. It also shows why Hugh Hewitt is a “third-tier radio talk-show host”. And Mark Steyn is one of his favorite lickspittles. They should both be ashamed.

Little sexist there, fellow.

fel·low
n.
1.
a. A man or boy.
b. Informal A boyfriend.
2. A comrade or associate.
3.
a. A person of equal rank, position, or background; a peer.
b. One of a pair; a mate: found the lost shoe and its fellow.
4. A member of a learned society.
5. A graduate student appointed to a position granting financial aid and providing for further study.
6. Chiefly British
a. An incorporated senior member of certain colleges and universities.
b. A member of the governing body of certain colleges and universities.
7. Obsolete A person of a lower social class.

Can I sue Hewitt for the distress of finding out how close to death I was?

If it’s so great there and bad here, then they ought to leave here for there. Yes yes.

As I sit fat-assed in my comfortable air-conditioned Manhattan office, literally spitting distance from Grand Central (another potential Ground Zero!!!), and do not entertain delusions that taking the subway to work is an act of heroism akin to those who choose to put their lives at risk daily and see their friends being shot at and blown up in a struggle to make things better in the clusterfuck that is Iraq–as I do this, I would like to point out to Hugh that the Empire State Building is in MIDTOWN, not downtown.

Of course, “downtown Manhattan” sounds a lot more badass than “midtown Manhattan,” so I can see where a chickenshit would misrepresent which part of the ‘hood he was broadcasting from, lest his viewers realize what an incredible pansy he was.

Although, I must say, I’m throwing caution to the wind and going to see a movie on the front lines of downtown Manhattan tonight. I expect it will be very comfortable. Although perhaps, like last time, they will not have Diet Dr. Pepper in fountain and I will have to settle for bottled, which will be VERY uncomfortable. It may, in fact, end up being just like Iraq.

So did the german people when they decided to herd up jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and liberals and toss them in concentration camps.

So did the russians when they created the ‘umbrella’ or ‘iron curtain’ in order to create a buffer between them and those they perceived were their enemies.

So did McCarthy and his red scaremongering who scapegoated and terrorized a nation of people for nothing more than trying to rationalize our choices in how we and why were were actually fighting communism.

People tend to become fanatics beholden to fear when it comes to ‘protecting’ themselves or what they think is their protecting ‘us’ from the evils they say lurk around every corner.
First. Show me the evil. Second. Show me how that evil is any worse than the evils we already have permeating each and every one of us here at home in the form of greed and apathy to the suffering of others.

MYOB’
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“[W]e’re all, in a sense, we’re all conscripted in this war. Those 100,000+ arabic people who died in the last 50 or so years at the hands of American Oil Imperialism, they weren’t serving forces, they were just fellows who got up in the morning and went to work”

I was just minding my own business here in the U.S of A. and these brown people (mostly Saudis) came out of nowhere and attacked because they hate us for our freedoms blah blah blah.

Let’s discuss the real issue why everyone hates America. Because your gov has been occupied by a bunch of fucking war criminal murderers for the last 50 years.

I believe the President when he says that this will be a very long war, and insofar as a mere civilian may say so, I consider myself enlisted in it.

The Jack Bauer of the Blogosphere!

YES!

Saving us all from the scimitars of desperate deadenders wherever they may be! He and alll his ilk.

YES!

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As for the Steyn character…

Enh.

Lightweights.