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St Patti’s Day Blog Reads
Posted by Raven on March 17th, 2006
Since I’ll be offline through Monday I decided to share the good blogs I like to visit…go read these over the weekend and have a safe St Patti’s Day party tonight (if you’re so inclined).
Heh. Beth has YET another QUIZ…I’m doing mine after this post. And I might edit it as well.
Always On Watch has a great fisking of the Saddam tapes. We won’t hear about this via the MSM.
Duncan writes about the Falling Man. Awesome post.
Dennis is pissed OFF and I don’t blame him. READ THIS POST and get MAD too. Dammit.
Seth has written a masterpiece of a post about liberals and history. GO read it. And think about it.
Van Helsing talks about John McCain’s rotten treatment of 9-11 Families. What a RINO con he really is.
Ogre has been celebrating St. Patti’s day for a couple weeks now and he has THE IMAGE OF WHAT I AM DOING tonight!
Hmm we still haven’t picked up the mess we left at Michael’s house the other night- evidence of our party is still all over his place (but he’s awake and breathing ***THUD***) As I run about cleaning his yard up I did notice a post about a football player turned MARINE. How hot is THAT??
March 17th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
I did notice a post about a football player turned MARINE. How hot is THAT??
Hopefully not as hot as the last one that did the same thing, to fight in Afghanistan, then found himself in Iraq, was quoted as calling the war “criminal” and then was shot by friendly fire in an incident that was covered up and only now years later is being investigated.
March 17th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Really. Where exactly can I find a quote of Pat Tillman calling the war “criminal”? I am really, really, really wanting to see that.
And the very fact that he did serve and gave up so much to do so makes me respect him, regardless of the “friendly-fire” screw up and subsequent “cover-up”.
Ofcourse, I don’t expect many from up north of our border to understand that. The canadian military has been a joke for years, a shadow of the greatness it was during WWII. So sad.:cry:
March 18th, 2006 at 7:11 am
Oh Timmah…why compare Pat Tillman to this? There is nothing wrong with people wanting to be in the military.
March 18th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
First of all, so sorry that we spend a little more on healthcare and education than the military industrial complex. We have boys dying in Afghanistan as we speak to help you guys out by the way.
“He was an avid reader whose interests ranged from history books…to works of leftist Noam Chomsky, a favorite author.” Tillman had very unembedded feelings about the Iraq War. His close friend Army Spec. Russell Baer remembered, “I can see it like a movie screen. We were outside of [an Iraqi city] watching as bombs were dropping on the town…. We were talking. And Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f***ing illegal.’ And we all said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush.”"
http://www.ivaw.net/index.php?id=175
Don’t you ever get tired of being so wrong?
March 19th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
True. You guys could afford to spend more money of socialized healthcare as we protected your ass during the Cold War. And I am sure that the few Canadians who still have the testicular fortitude to join the military and fight are truly men as opposed to the emasculated fairies that are left.
And any link from the Iraqi Vets Against the War is suspect. I find it very interesting that if Tillman was so very interested in Chomsky and was anti-war, that he would leave his multi-million dollar job to join the military to go and fight, a war. It seems to me that the anti-war establishment is trying to turn Tillman into their posterboy for the anti-war movement. Too bad he is dead and we only have hear-say evidence that he thought the war was “illegal”, long before the entire “missing WMDs” and the “Bush lied” mantra had any teeth. I wonder if Mr. Baer himself might be a member of IVAW?
March 20th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Duncan – It’s pretty difficult to claim that you “protected” us when no actual attack ever happened to take place. In stark contrast, we just lost a few of our soldiers In Afghanistan. Remember Afghanistan, that country you invaded then forgot about allowing it to return to an opium state? I’m sure you do, It’s where the actual purpetrator of the 9/11 attacks resided.
As far as the tillman thing goes, maybe you should use this neat thing I use often called “google” before just making up your opinion based on nothing.
Tillman joined the war to fight in Afghanistan after 9/11 because he was a true patriot, not some vapid, shallow, overpaid sports figure. He then oddly enough found himself later in Iraq, a war he wanted no part of, but followed orders and did his job anyway, because again, he was a true patriot.
That article was from the nation as far as I can tell, and has been republished many other places, not just some anti-war site. There’s more as well, how about his family? Can they speak for him?
Tillman’s mother clarified, explaining that her son believed the Afghanistan war was justified by the September 11th attacks but “Pat was very critical of the whole Iraq War.” Another friend, who served with him, recalled how Tillman admonished fellow Rangers to vote Bush out of office in the forthcoming presidential election.
March 20th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Who cares what political stance Tillman had? It doesn’t matter. He was an American.
Who took on the uniform. He was killed in a tragic accident and we will probably never know all the details of it.
Let him rest in peace and stop using the dead for mouthpieces. Mother ShitSheehan needs to do the same thing to.
MOVE ON.
March 20th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Hahahaha please, spare me the holier than thou BS or take Terri Schiavo off your blog right now.
You bought it up so I just figured I’d shatter your illusions as usual…
March 20th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Shut up Timmah LOL- there is a million differences between Terri and Tillman.
Holier than thou?? Get off that. I am not a religous person. At all.