Sullivan has a "happy day" as he insults another American for their point-of-view. A person who wrote to the SF paper wanted to express their views that the soldiers Bush visited in Iraq were not there at her behest, and that she was not interested in their fighting a war in her name.
These men and women in the military are not protecting me, and I do not want or need their protection. Bush should get off the big lie that they are there to protect me as an American. I would rather die than be protected in that way.
I am ashamed to be an American as long as Bush is in office.
Sullivan of course, calls this womans letter a "deranged response". Sullivan, the man who has called service men and women "his servants", who is medically unfit to wear the uniform of his adopted country (we could all pretend about the gay-thing under "don't ask, don't tell" but as for the other...), and whose idea of patriotism seems to be who can screech the loudest when some question the 1600 Crew lies; "Shut Up Shut Up. Saddam Was A Bad Man", as the aluminum transfer tube count to Dover AFB increases every day.
Saying this about Ms. Merrill truly shows that Sullivan's love of America and his understanding of Americans outside the Jingoistic NeoCon Crusders is truly very shallow
I'd love to see Cheryl go hand to hand with al Qaeda on her own, wouldn't you?
He needs to re-read some of the works of Stephan Ambrose. He's Mr. Big Time Journalist, a Legend in his Own Mind...perhaps he could talk to guys who made statements like this
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
"'No' I answered, ' but I served in a company of heroes.'"
-- Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
I'm sure he might find that the Chery Merrill's of America are more than willing to put up when called, and fight for something they believe in. Oh, and Mr. Journalist...are you still trying to get that Saddam-Al Qaida connection out there for the 1600 Spin Machine? Even the generals on the ground in Iraq are saying that "foreign fighters" are non-existant. It's that great grasp of real facts like that that ensured your tenure at the Times, I'm guessing.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.28.03 at 07:57 PM
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"I'd love to see Cheryl go hand to hand with al Qaeda on her own, wouldn't you?"
