Mike Irwin
Member
I'm seeing a completely different war being reported! My letter to the Times...
Editor,
Apparently in the Times' editorial offices the United States military is on the verge of being ejected from Iraq, tail twixt its legs, in complete disgrace and abject military defeat.
NYTs columnists, and readers, and even the news reports, are resplendent with reports -- delivered with an almost sick sense of glee -- of Iraqi resistance and casualties taken by the Coalition forces.
Words like quagmire are being bandied about. I haven't seen it yet, but I suspect that the comparisons with Vietnam aren't far off.
Now Paul Krugman really hits a high note in his op-ed today in talking about the "pro-war" rallies. Of course they're not pro-America or pro-troops rallies, but can only be "pro-war."
Anyhow, I digress on the subject of "pro-war" rallies...
Mr. Krugman draws a direct comparison between Nazi pro-state/pro-Hitler rallies in the 1930s and the supposed "pro-war" movement today.
That's right, if you believe in America, believe in our troops, and believe that American action in Iraq is justified, you're nothing more than a Hitlerian Storm Trooper, so break out your armband, brown shirt, and dust off your copy of the Horst Wessel Song.
The inference Krugman uses to draw the comparison between Germany in the 1930s and America today is that many of the radio stations that spearheaded the protests over the Dixie Chicks are owned by a company -- Clear Channel Communications -- whose VP has associations with the Bush Administration.
That's right...
George Bush is the equivilent of the American Adolf Hitler, and Tom Hicks is the new Joseph Goebbels, soon to be named Minister of Propagand, no doubt.
It was only a few years ago that the Times and other newspapers were excoriating Americans who were playing "connect the dots" in the Clinton Adminstrations' dealings with Communist China. (More iced tea, Mr. Vice President? It's a glass full of culpable deniability, after all.)
Apparently, though, it's fine for the Times play the Hitler card in attemting to harness the Bush adminstration's drive to free the people of Iraq from a dictator of Hitlerian proportions and prevent that regime from spreading chemical and biological weapons to like-minded states and terrorists groups.
I guess Mr. Klugman forgets that roughly 16 million Americans served in another war, 60 years ago, that pitted Americans against totaliarian agression -- Imperial Japan and Fascist Germany and Italy -- regimes that used chemical and biological weapons and warfare techniques almost indiscriminately on millions of Chinese, Koreans, Africans, and European Jews, and even some Americans unfortunate enough to be taken as prisoners of war.
In a city that's already seen the worst of what terrorism has to offer, I can only hope that the Times, Mr. Klugman, and the citizens of New York City aren't themselves treated to an introductory course in chemical and biological warfare, compliments of Saddam Hussein.
If they are, however, and this horror is visited on this nation, it won't be the Bush Adminstration that is to blame.
Sincerely,
blah blah blah...
Editor,
Apparently in the Times' editorial offices the United States military is on the verge of being ejected from Iraq, tail twixt its legs, in complete disgrace and abject military defeat.
NYTs columnists, and readers, and even the news reports, are resplendent with reports -- delivered with an almost sick sense of glee -- of Iraqi resistance and casualties taken by the Coalition forces.
Words like quagmire are being bandied about. I haven't seen it yet, but I suspect that the comparisons with Vietnam aren't far off.
Now Paul Krugman really hits a high note in his op-ed today in talking about the "pro-war" rallies. Of course they're not pro-America or pro-troops rallies, but can only be "pro-war."
Anyhow, I digress on the subject of "pro-war" rallies...
Mr. Krugman draws a direct comparison between Nazi pro-state/pro-Hitler rallies in the 1930s and the supposed "pro-war" movement today.
That's right, if you believe in America, believe in our troops, and believe that American action in Iraq is justified, you're nothing more than a Hitlerian Storm Trooper, so break out your armband, brown shirt, and dust off your copy of the Horst Wessel Song.
The inference Krugman uses to draw the comparison between Germany in the 1930s and America today is that many of the radio stations that spearheaded the protests over the Dixie Chicks are owned by a company -- Clear Channel Communications -- whose VP has associations with the Bush Administration.
That's right...
George Bush is the equivilent of the American Adolf Hitler, and Tom Hicks is the new Joseph Goebbels, soon to be named Minister of Propagand, no doubt.
It was only a few years ago that the Times and other newspapers were excoriating Americans who were playing "connect the dots" in the Clinton Adminstrations' dealings with Communist China. (More iced tea, Mr. Vice President? It's a glass full of culpable deniability, after all.)
Apparently, though, it's fine for the Times play the Hitler card in attemting to harness the Bush adminstration's drive to free the people of Iraq from a dictator of Hitlerian proportions and prevent that regime from spreading chemical and biological weapons to like-minded states and terrorists groups.
I guess Mr. Klugman forgets that roughly 16 million Americans served in another war, 60 years ago, that pitted Americans against totaliarian agression -- Imperial Japan and Fascist Germany and Italy -- regimes that used chemical and biological weapons and warfare techniques almost indiscriminately on millions of Chinese, Koreans, Africans, and European Jews, and even some Americans unfortunate enough to be taken as prisoners of war.
In a city that's already seen the worst of what terrorism has to offer, I can only hope that the Times, Mr. Klugman, and the citizens of New York City aren't themselves treated to an introductory course in chemical and biological warfare, compliments of Saddam Hussein.
If they are, however, and this horror is visited on this nation, it won't be the Bush Adminstration that is to blame.
Sincerely,
blah blah blah...
As you can plainly see, there is reason behind the label "KC RED STAR"
