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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison

HAHA........ if keeps talking crap like this, it will take MORE than the 1st Amendment to protect him!!!

example: Maybe some downtrodden soldier returning from Iraq, just loses his wife, car, and dog, reads Mr. Arskins comments and decides to respond in a creative way that he learned over in Iraq.

Just a thought....

I can't say more I'll be banned for sure.....lmao

The people who take the position that the average American soldier is an unthinking dolt are usually more circumspect about saying so.

The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.

The thing that always kills me about these people is they fail to realize that their ability to exist is predicated on their pontifications being false. If any of what they said was true they would be in an unmarked grave someplace off the beaten path.

Veritas magna est et praevalet.

I can remember when my brother was staging out for Gulf War I (he was an Army aviator). We sent him big boxes of oatmeal (because the MREs plugged him up) with recent issues of Playboy (because being in the desert plugged other things up). We had to hide the magazines pretty carefully in the oatmeal because before the war started, his base was in Saudi. And we were warned that the Saudis are rather... well, strict in regard to indecency.

Just doing our bit to ensure top effectiveness for our troops.

The Academy: researching the Illiberal Arts

just because this is the US that at some point in the very foreseeable future, the radical leftists now in control of Congress won't cross the line and we have a military supported rebellion? I think they may be towing it now.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

TOMMY*

(verse three)

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.

Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that,
an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"

But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,

The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'oroes" when the drums begin to roll.

*Tommy Atkins is the British equivalent of GI Joe

You should have added the three paragraphs immediatly proceeding the one you post:

"These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.
Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.

Sure it is the junior enlisted men who go to jail, but even at anti-war protests, the focus is firmly on the White House and the policy. We just don't see very man "baby killer" epithets being thrown around these days, no one in uniform is being spit upon."

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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
- George Mason

"I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn't for them to disapprove of the American people."

"These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.

Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform"

"this NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work."

Also, go check out the link for were he implies that "Hoover's and Nixon's" will use these poor naive soldiers for a coup.

First of all- did Nixon resort to a coup? No he did not. Might I also note that it was FDR, not Hoover who involved us in war. How did Hoover end up paired with Nixon anyway?

Oh yeah, that's right, Hoover was that bad man who insisted on non-government intervention during the Great Depression so he could starve poor people. (Actually he supported intervention, but Hoover felt he was restrained by the Constitution, unlike FDR).

Jeez, these people are all insane. Yesterday some fellow on Fox News was claiming that Hugo Chavez was not a tyrant, and that he only needed to "rule by decree" so that he could institute JFK's plan for land reform- and then topped it off by claiming that G.W.Bush was a tyrant because of Guatanamo Bay.

n/t

This piece was probably just a botched joke about how stupid Bush is, anyway.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

He is sinking their hopes better than any Limbaugh work ever could.

Who is Arkin a "mercenary" for?

Not for this country it seems.

Is he one of those about whom America soon will be discovering? Or is he just another jack*ass who writes words he believes sound tough or trendy without a moments thought to what he's really writing?

On second thought, don't answer. I don't care.

arkin (he isn't worthy of having his name capitalized) is a dimwit. He doesn't even have 2 neurons to rub together. I haven't gone over to any of the socialist...er...progressive websites yet (DU or Kos) but I bet they are prasing him to high heaven right now...

"Suppose you were a congressman, and suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

The ice has been broken now and it isn't far from here to spitting on the troops as they walk on the street or midnight phone calls to the spouss and kids wishing Mommy or Daddy dead.

It's finally begun. I for one am releaved that the long wait is finally over and the inevitable liberal truth is finally coming out.

John
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Liberals: Alchemists who have mastered the ability to transmute Lead into a denser form of Lead

I have a Marine Corps family group in Phoenix that would gladly pay his way out here to speak. Or scream...
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Is the way 72% of troops don't support the troops! Ingrateful assholes. They should be glad to have there limbs blown off in a desert 10,000 miles away.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=34538&archive=tr...

I read the article twice and at first thought it some kind of sick satire.

Is this what Bill believes passes for ardent patriotism today? His self loathing, hateful oratory is remarkable in the fact he seems to truly believe this garbage.

Why is this presented as useful journalism, to have the 1% of like minded leftists high five each other?

We could take that same section quoted above and replace military with "Congress" or "The Executive Branch". Will that be the next piece in Bill's series of articles?

Truly another sign the left has no respect, affinity or love for our Democratic Republic and Constitution.

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
Contributor to The Minority Report

at the bottom of the article. These folks are just flaming Arkin. Check it out.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/01/the_troops_also_need...

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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
- George Mason

Why should anyone take Arkin seriously when he, a professional journalist, doesn't even know the proper way to use an apostrophe?

the companies that place ad's in the Post and of course include the article as well. That is what they will understand loss of money, if enough people tell the advertisers that they will not buy anything the company sells if they continue to place ad in Post I believe that we will see an apology, which is not nearly enough but perhaps even more they lose so much money they go out of business. I know it's a pipe dream however it is a start and the very least we can do for our troops.

Peace through superior fire power:)

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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"...
Senior Writer

The Powerline people were also irked by Arkin's poor grammar. It's the perfect combination: an insipid pile of snobbish hatred decorated with some elementary grammar mistakes.

Ignoring for the moment what he said, I'm struck by how badly these professional writers write.

time to string this loser up!

Next up comes the "Baby Killer" op-ed, and then a Winter Soldier statement from someone, to be published at the Washington Post:

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

-- John Forbes Kerry, April 22, 1971.

It was bound to happen. Jane Fonda was in Washington the other day practically quoting Robert Kaiser's most recent editorial word-for-word. She must have memorized it:

After nearly four years of ineffectual war-fighting, after the collapse of domestic support for President Bush and his policies, after the expenditure of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, it no longer seems possible to avoid the grim conclusion: For the United States, Iraq has become another Vietnam.

... and Silence is no longer an Option!!

Meanwhile, Kerry is in Europe calling the United States a "pariah." Robert Redford is demanding a "big apology" during the breaks between the bestiality and child-rape movies at his film festival. Feingold is working to yank the funds. Hugh Hewitt is tracking the ever-expanding wave of bloviating, butt-covering, and forfeiture among our own party.

Fellas, Arkin's stuff is just the beginning. Chants of "Baby Killers!!" can't be far behind. The Democrats know the tune; it's the only one they remember.