Comments on: Profiles In Courage

by: Dugrless

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You know, the more I think about it, the more I like this to-the-winners-goes-the-spoils idea. But I think it’s time we pressed it to its logical conclusion:

Any and all profit from reconstruction work gets divided equally among the soldiers in Iraq.

This is a winning policy: It’s Bush-logic fair, it’s pro-soldier, and it keeps the bad guys out (and by bad guys, of course, I mean the really bad guys: our long-term western European allies). As it stands now, Chirac and Schr�der could buy stock in Halliburton and indirectly reap the benefits; we can’t have that!

Heck, with this kind of policy, our soldiers may be able to afford health insurance or housing.

by: tim

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

And pretty soon, each one of these guys is going to get a book deal and a CBS movie, too. Except for the really fat guy.

by: Tom Bridge

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

While many on the left will find this either erudite or witty, I think you’re so self-interested in having this war be about oil and nothing else that you’re unable to see the people that were freed from Saddam.

Granted, I don’t think the Bush administration chose the right reasons to go into Iraq, I think we can all agree that deposing some of those fascists running resource rich countries into the ground and their peoples through plastic shredders might not be such a bad thing.

Lampooning the hard-working men and women of the US Military may seem like a good idea to you, but they’re the reason you get to behave as you do without threat of foreign invasion. They work for you, and this is all you can do? Make fun of them?

What a sick fuck you are.

by: Matt

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Does the post “lampoon the hard-working men and women of the US Military” or the corporate types who take advantage of their sacrifice? I think the contrast between the CEOs and those on the front lines is much more stark than the contrast between said troops and Felber.

by: B

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Wha!? Who!? Huh!?
Tom Bridge, did you actually read the post? It’s hardly a “lampooning” of the men and women of the military, rather a humorous, fictitous commentary on the corporate executives who are being rewarded for the hard work of our military.

And I’d like to make a correction. Few of us on the left find anything about this situation “erudite or funny”. The term clusterf**k comes to mind though.

And I agree the Iraqi’s may actually feel relief… when, uh, hmmm… when we actually catch Saddam. Or maybe even Bin Laden… oh yeah, and address North Korea… and…

by: Dee

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Your brilliance leaves me speechless, Adam.

by: tess

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

who is this tom bridge? and is he illiterate? did he choose not to read what was written? if he’s illiterate, then we can point him out the scientology page and have him learn to overcome his dyslexia like tom cruise! but if he’s unable to read at a middle-school level, then we’ll just have to pack him off to a texas high school so that he can enter and mysteriously disappear from school records when he drops out!

by: Bob

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Whew! What a tough-looking bunch of fightin’ men! I bet that any of them could lead a blistering assault on Porkchop Hill. Or, failing that, a porkchop.

Note to Tom Bridge - Let there be no misunderstanding: I have nothing but the deepest respect for porkchops.

by: Murray

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

After reading Adam’s post I couldn’t be prouder to be an American. Where else in the world can political contributors be so openly rewarded while the soldiers who do risk their lives so ignominiously denied their health benefits. And after reading Tom Bridge’s comment I can see how Bush gets away with it.

by: Tom Bridge

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

See, that’s the funny part here, I’m not even a Bush supporter. I didn’t vote for him. I won’t vote for him next November, I think he’s a dumbass. But where I differ with you lot is that I have a lot of respect for those who sack up and serve their country in the most overtly dangerous way possible: by picking up a gun and swearing to defend the country to their own death.

Have contempt for the way Bush does his job? Show him with your vote in November, not as some cheap joke at the expense of our military men and women, most of whom did not vote for the man who they take orders from either.

Let’s not lose sight of why we have the right to say and do as we please: those men and women in uniform.