mikey

Asinine.

None of the bloggers were carried away by the atmospherics (“cream their panties” – they simply noted said atmospherics as part of a full report. But those who would feed the ignorati simply chose not to cut and paste anything beyond that from the meeting. If any of you were to examine the actual questions those bloggers had for President Bush, you’d notice a theme…

And Mrs Greyhawk, the lady who’s very quietly done more work than anyone in history to bring the voices of deployed troops to the people they serve She reads hundreds of milblogs every morning to report the good and the bad. (And very quietly done a lot for the wounded troops, too.) She doesn’t do it for the fame. Make up your minds do you support the troops or do you follow the mantra that they’re all “baby killers.”

If you are far, far, removed from the reality of the war on terror – say, if you’re a “columnist” or “blogger” or “commenter” interested only in the political gain you can get from a war (for instance, you use “conservative blogger” as interchangeable with “milblogger” in your report of a White House visit by an Iraq vet, the wife of a guy currently serving in Iraq, a citizen of Baghdad, four other veterans, one which is on the advisory committee to a Democrat Representative, two in Iraq and one American civilian) you’re not going to notice that these are people who are in the war. If you do notice that inconvenient truth, you’ll recognize it as a distraction from your witty ad-hominems and avoid it like the plague. (Though some might not appreciate learning they’d been tricked into insulting spouses of deployed troops just so you could get your jollies.)

Think it through a little farther and you might even come to realize that maybe, just maybe, a message was being sent regarding exactly where military people think someone could be doing a better job.

But since “have them read a few of the hundreds of milblogs that have been written from front-line troops in the war on terror” is one possible answer, you damn sure don’t want that message to get out.

It would scare you shitless.

Good lord! Why it’s living and breathing proof that Fuck Sargent shares the opinion of a subset of the whole group he purports to speak for! What is a stupid argument to do but vanish in a greenish smoky fart?

Gee, I wonder if we could find a decorated american combat veteran around these parts who virulently opposes the illegal occupation of Iraq and the criminal policies of the bush/cheney cabal.

Seems like there was just one of those guys here the other day…

mikey

Again, you are missing the point, which is DIFFERENT PEOPLE CAN HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS, whether serving in the military or not. That you feel this needs to be proven is evidence only of your own idiocy, but knock yourself out.

Of course. Are you stupid or something?

The point, Staph, was that Fuck Sargent’s asinine appeal to authority presumes that “those who have laid everything on the line for their country” speak with one voice. They don’t. If you weren’t some sort of idiot you’d understand that.

“Fuck Sargent”–how witty, and what a nice thing to call someone who’s served in both Afghanistan and Iraq and will be heading back there soon. Why do you think you know more about Iraq than he does?

When he behaves like something other than an idiot he’ll get better treatment. So will you. Until then he’s just another dope. I made no assertions about Iraq and neither did he, but I forgive you for your inability to read.

“Fuck Sargent”–how witty, and what a nice thing to call someone who’s served in both Afghanistan and Iraq and will be heading back there soon. Why do you think you know more about Iraq than he does?

A single word of advice: medication.

If he had a clipboard he was, like, totally trying to steal your bike.

And now neither can we.

Thanks buckets.

Could be, Mikey, but I think we need to hear from Teh Smiling Mortician for the definitive take on that one.

But as for that urn on the desk…