MadDog -[TO said:-]What does Kerry do that's wrong?
Oh...Kerry...Kerry...Kerry
Somehow manages to get deployed in such a way in Vietnam that rather than doing the actual grunt-fighting he goes for the medal-positions immediately. Much like Powell. Yes, they fought, as opposed to Bush, Clinton and Cheney, but they didn't get down in the dirt like McCain.
Funny thing about that, Kerry was a real wangmonger. Yeehaw, I got guns. Then he actually got into a war. Yeeehaw, I have anti-war banners.
What an asshole. Like I said on Asshats:
"Though in a way I'm hoping Dubyah will win. He's an asshole, but at least we already know his brand of assholism, and the world can adapt to undo the damage he's doing to world politics over the next 4 years. Kerry is an unknown, and his method of killing international politics would be unknown and dangerous"
You Americans are so fucked.
Blade Runner said:I was aware of this footage for some time now, I saw it on the news a week or two ago, and I have to admit: it doesn't really influence me. Using pictures of war casualties to make the war monger look bad will always work, but hey: if there's a war, there's going to be casualties - always. These soldiers knew what the risks were.
Blade, do you remember the Gulf War? Remember the shouts back then? "It is a clean war!"
Clean war.
Whoever came up with that should be shot
The American media propaganda speakers were blowing away with "a war doesn't need to have casualties on ou side". Through technical superiority and a lot of bombing, no Americans would be lost, and plenty of Iraqis. The bad thing is, the Americans started to believe intheir own propaganda, right up until the highest levels. There's little as bad for the future as leadership believing in their own lies.
In a way, Bush probably actually believed this could be a "clean war". And the cute thing is nobody seems to understand, so far, that it *is* a clean war, with minimal losses on the American side. Imagine if it had been like Vietnam. With the American mind set to the naive idea of a clean war, it would've meant mass panic.
What nonsense, what poppycock. It's a war, people, get it through your head.
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:Jesus. I bet if Bush farted in his own bedroom, at this point you lefties would accuse him of trying to punch a whole in the ozone laywer with farting.
He made fun of HIMSELF and HIS STAFF. HE DID NOT SAY "HAHA, MR.SOLDIER MAN, YOU ARE DYING NEEDLESSLY!"
Wow, I thought you were smarter than this.
CC, Bush is a world leader. He's not allowed to make fun of his policy if it causes deaths. He is allowed to bow before the people and apologize humbly for being a total moron and getting people killed needlessely, he may *not* make fun of it. That's part of the concept political leader.