HERE IS THE NEW Malkin(s)watch. GO THERE NOW.
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Now, considering the fact that there's apparently a video making the rounds that shows terrorists executing one of the Bulgarian survivors in cold blood, I in no way endorse this view. Despite what the Malkins would have you believe about liberals, I don't wish death on anyone, however I feel about what they do for a living.THESE F[**]KERS ARE NOT NICE PEOPLE. I have a hard time feeling sorry for their families. I have known a few of these wives and if they are in the marriage they are so high on Prozac and Xanax they will barely know he's gone...If one of their mommas is crying I'm somewhat sorry but I really want to ask that woman why she never got any help for her son, who was obviously a potential serial killer! I lay some of what that man became on her and his father's doorstep. I have almost no tears for these people. I can barely squeeze one out.
The only fucking people who need to run around Iraq with automatic weapons and working for "our side" for any reason whatsofuckingever are people who answer to our military chain of fucking command and thereby the American voter and taxpayer and thereby follow the Geneva Convention to the fucking letter. If you had any idea how much these MERCs disgust and sicken honest military folk!!!As usual, Malkin finds one comment by a distraught person, quotes it without full context, and leaves us with a few dead horses beaten:
No word yet on whether any AP photographers were tipped off to the cold-blooded execution by the Iraqi "insurgents/militants." Could be another Pulitzer Prize in the making.
Meanwhile, LGF notes that some unhinged liberals--in the same sick spirit of Howard Dean campaign consultant Markos Moulitsos Zuniga--are gloating over the murders.
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Editorial page editors, be on guard. MoveOn.org is calling on its left-wing troops to flood your offices with letters to the editor attacking Republicans over judicial appointments.A-oo-gah. Of course, a look at MoveOn's dastardly plan reveals these actual details:
Get the picture?Yes. Yes, we certainly do. Nothing scares Malkin more than the idea that liberals might actually start getting organized about things like this.
It's simply not astroturf in the fine right-wing echo chamber tradition. The Moveon form allows people to write their own damn letter, rather than just signing their name to some boilerplate as the wingnutty do. You will notice that even a cursory glance at the example she uses doesn't hit all the talking points. Why, it's almost as if the moveon form and the letters to the editor are discussing the same issue. Very suspicious.
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Infinitely worse deeds [than Abu Ghraib] are being done in Darfur daily. Where's the outrage?...Well, he's certainly not entirely wrong; Darfur seems to have fallen off the radar screen. (Although check out Tas.) I certainly haven't written about Darfur, and I could point out that it's because Michelle hasn't written much either.
The silence of the "antiwar" masses speaks volumes about their priorities: They don't object to war crimes as long as they're not committed by Americans.
You send your children to school to learn, not to be assaulted by classmates and abused by the negligent overseers of Public School Classrooms Gone Wild. If these assaults occurred in private schools, the institutions would be shut down. Instead, the government dance of the lemons continues, as abominable administrators skip away with "sensitivity training," "reassignment," and eternal protection from accountability.Yes, that is a problem.
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The conservative group Move America Forward has announced an ad campaign targeting Voinovich.God forbid an elected official follow his conscience.
...Here's the ad text...Wife: Honey, were you watching C-SPAN today? Did you hear how disloyal Senator Voinovich was to Republicans and President Bush? Voinovich stood with the Democrats and refused to vote for John Bolton, the man President Bush has chosen to fight for the United States at the UN
Husband: No, I was streaming it on the Internet at the office, but from what I could tell, Senator Voinovich played hookey from the hearings?
Wife: Yeah that’s right. He’s missed most of the Bolton confirmation hearings, but then shows up at the last minute and stabs the President and Republicans right in the back.
Husband: That’s ridiculous – the United Nations needs reform, we need someone who will stand up for the United States and fight the UN’s corruption and anti-Americanism.
Wife: Shame on Senator Voinovich. After the Democrats smeared Condoleeza Rice for Secretary of State and Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General, how could Voinovich side with the Democrats in smearing John Bolton?
Husband: It seems like Senator Voinovich has become a traitor to the Republican Party.
Wife: Enough’s enough. I’m logging on to Move America Forward dot com to register my protest with Senator Voinovich’s office.
Husband: What was that site? Move America Forward dot com ?
Wife: Yep, Move America Forward dot com
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Why doesn't she explain that bolded sentence (emphasis mine)? Because it offers an alternative, Occam's Razor-approved explanation for the bill, which is also supported by the Illinois State Medical Society. From the story Michelle linked to:Why would Planned Parenthood, an industry leader that aborts children and makes millions doing it, care a bit about the safety of children in the womb? Simple. It's hard to see an ultrasound and remain pro-choice. Once you see that your potentially aborted wad of tissues has fingers, toes, eyes and a nose and all the rest it becomes a person in your mind, and that makes you less likely to become one of Margaret Sanger's company's customers.
Mulligan said that Planned Parenthood and the Illinois State Medical Society encouraged her to sponsor the legislation because there was a concern about long exposure of fetuses to ultrasound waves.I'm not very impressed by Planned Parenthood's case here. But considering that Malkin has repeatedly blogged about her worries about the safety and efficacy of vaccinations, I would think she'd want to err on the side of caution. At least one paper published in Lancet recommended:
"There's a new little industry that does ultrasound videos on babies before they're born for entertainment purposes," the Cook County legislator told her colleagues. "There is concern about the neurological development with long exposure."
Repeated prenatal ultrasound imaging and Doppler flow examinations should be restricted to those women to whom the information is likely to be of clinical benefit.But is the other contention - that "It's hard to see an ultrasound and remain pro-choice" - even accurate?
Ultrasound may be better at picking up abnormalities in foetuses than previously thought, but its results could also be misleading, causing parents to abort healthy babies...And those are just the false positives. Thousands of abortions are performed every year as a result of the discovery of birth defects by ultrasounds. If Planned Parenthood is really interested in selling as many abortions as possible, why aren't they working to mandate ultrasounds for all pregnancies?
Another 174 foetuses had signs suggesting abnormality, but went on to be normal at birth. They are known as "false positives"...
In two cases, parents of these babies opted for an abortion because they feared their children would be born with deformities - against doctors' advice.
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Bracket 1There's a mini-controversy brewing over whether the Incredibles deserves to be in the competition. I agree with that point of view - that the Incredibles is not really a comedy - but I voted for it anyway, because I'm a sucker for animation and it's the best animated feature ever made, in my opinion.
Monty Python's The Life of Brian (1) vs. Heathers (8)
Sullivan’s Travels (4) vs. Animal House (5)
Some Like It Hot (2) vs. Repo Man (7)
Blazing Saddles (3) vs. The General (6)
Bracket 2
Modern Times (1) vs. Slap Shot (8)
Dr. Strangelove (4) vs. Trading Places (5)
The Ladykillers [1955 Alec Guinness version] (2) vs. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (7)
Waiting for Guffman (3) vs. M*A*S*H (6)
Bracket 3
Duck Soup (1) vs. To Be or Not to Be [1942 Jack Benny version] (8)
Caddyshack (4) vs. Royal Tennenbaums (5)
Airplane (4) vs. A Shot in the Dark (5)
The Philaldephia Story (3) vs. Office Space (6)
Bracket 4
Annie Hall (1) vs. Bedazzled [Moore/Cook] (8)
Safety Last (4) vs. Hollywood Shuffle (5)
The Bank Dick (2) vs. South Park (7)
Raising Arizona (3) vs. The Incredibles (6)
If, as I suspect, The Left* is, in organizing this contest, merely trying once again to show his contempt for our democratic process, he could not have done better than by having The Ladykillers beat out Kind Hearts & Coronets and first-rate stuntman/third-rate "comedian" Harold Lloyd beat out the sublime Laurel and Hardy.My endorsement of this view should in no way eclipse my appreciation of Norbizness' work on this contest.
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Not to worry. There are plenty of other hate-filled, liberal knick-knacks and apparel items still on sale.Well, no, I'm not going to shrug. I don't particularly like the items listed, and I'm not sure that wearing them isn't illegal.
Like this "Kill Bush" magnet depicting the president holding a gun to his head with the caption "End Terrorism Now"...
"Oh, but it's all in good fun," the libs will shrug...
"Where's your sense of humor?" the libs will ask.
Where's their decency? Their sanity?
Welcome to the sick world of the pro-assassination Left.
They are a party on a mission to seek revenge for killing their hopes for a president, but 4 years later the Democrats are on a mission, they are going to "KILL BUSH"!That sounds more like something Byron York would say than those evil liberals. (In fact, I think the above is taken directly from his interminable subtitle.)
The “liberals” selling the shirt are actually…just one random guy named Christopher Goodwin. Christopher runs “Ye Olde Christopher Goodwin Art Shoppe,” an online storeLame indeed.
(hosted for free by CafePress.com) where he sells drink coasters, tote bags, and throw pillows emblazoned mostly with images of his own “abstract and representational art"; only two of his featured items are political in nature, the DeLay shirt and a set of shirts that say “Bush Is Vile"...According to Alexa.com, Christopher Goodwin’s website is the 2,071,537th most visited site on the Internet; to put that in perspective (and to make clear Goodwin’s profound obscurity) consider that the homepage for Chicken of the Sea tuna is ranked 163,081.
In other words, Drudge made a concerted attempt to find absolutely anything to take the heat off Tom DeLay’s various corruption charges, and the very best he could come up with was a stupid t-shirt from “Ye Olde Christopher Goodwin Art Shoppe.” Lame.
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Last week, many conservative bloggers--self included--picked up on a LifeNews.com story about a new Zogby poll that showed a majority of Americans opposing removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube if the question was framed differently than most other MSM polls.Hmm..
But now some skeptical bloggers--conservative bloggers--are revisiting the poll and asking questions about the sponsors, poll wording, and reporting on the poll.
And for fair and balanced coverage: On the left side of the blogosphere, David Corn gets $60 from www.johnkerry.com for a blog ad urging RINO Sen. Lincoln Chafee to vote against Bolton. Seems the ad is running on a number of blogs and websites to put pressure on Chafee. Corn also takes his fellow left-wing bloggers to task for not paying more attention to the nomination:Hmmm...Bolton's a bad deal for the United States. I wish progressive bloggers were as fixated upon him as many of them have been on Jeff Gannon/James Guckert.
There's plenty to criticize John Kerry for, but this isn't one of them. The Associated Press now asserts that both Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Richard Lugar "may have blown" a CIA agent's cover during the Bolton hearings...Three thoughts: It's probably not genuine, it's not exactly overwhelming, and it definitely won't last.
[There are] four previous media citations of the agent's name--all which make public reference to the agent, Fulton Armstrong, and the specific intelligence controversy at issue--dating back to September 2002...
...[H]ow will all of these newspapers that picked up the AP story square the reporter's assertion with those previous media citations?
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Why on earth is the National Park Service stocking Michelle Malkin's book "In Defense of Internment" in the bookshop at Manzanar?He goes on to wonder whether they carry the JFK assassination computer game at the Sixth Floor Museum.
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Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin: "Chris, I don't think we can be absolutely certain about what his wife, what Terri, would have wanted."Oh, yeah, that's the same.
Matthews: "Do you think he's a murderer?"
Malkin: "What? No, Chris let me make my point ... "
Matthews: You do, don't you!? Now, I want you to be clear now. You're alleging that Michael Schiavo walked in one night oh so many years ago and took a pillow to Terri, aren't you?"
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The work that Jaquiss has done on the Goldschmidt story and, especially, on PGE, has been much needed reporting in town.This story is so incomplete that it seems pointless to even have published it, except to stir up controversy the same week that WW is celebrating its Pulitzer win. No details are given regarding when/if Robert Burtchaell ended his relationship with Willamette Week, in relation to when Nigel Jaquiss came to Portland from New York, and how many (if any) people remain on staff at WW that were there 30 years ago, assuming that's when Burtchaell allegedly "handled" the victim.
That said, a month ago, I sent a letter to the Pulitzer board outlining concerns about the the story and 30-year cover-up of Goldschmidt's crime. Since the story broke, we've learned of several political figures with knowledge of the story, as well as several missed opportunities for newspapers to pursue it.
According to Jaquiss' own reporting, one of the original founders of Willamette Week, Robert Burthchaell, was actively involved in "handling" (more precisely, "silencing") Goldschmidt's victim. The question of Burthchaell's alleged involvement in the cover-up--and how this should reflect on WW--is a question I believe should be asked.
As a result, certain media outlets have questioned my intentions. If anything, this response has reinforced my concerns regarding Portland's media. After all, wasn't the failure--and the fear--to ask probing questions for 30 years the reason that the Goldschmidt rape remained hidden?
Jaquiss has done a great service by finally uncovering this hugely important story. But I believe there are still many unanswered questions requiring our attention. The Mercury is currently pursuing those leads.
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The main proponents of Republican apologia were, not surprisingly, Powerline and Michelle Malkin. Both of whom weren't, you know, really wrong if you really, really read what they wrote very, very carefully and then equivocated on the meaning of some words and pay close attention to the singular or plural...Mykeru was responding to a post in which one of the Malkins (my money's on Jesse) went on the attack, accusing liberals of reading comprehension "lower than my 17-month-old son's. And he's just started reading picture books"; later, one of them (probably "voice of reason" Michelle) switched tacks effortlessly, calling for explanations of the possible "GOP coverups." That's one nice thing about having two people writing under one name: "Michelle Malkin" can hold two different opinions on the same day. John from AMERICAblog gives Malkin credit, though, for being reasonable:
I will be expecting the resignations of Malkin (preferably both of them, and I don't mean the kid) and Hindrocket from blogging in my inbox by the end of the day.
Oh yeah, and
Biatches.
I have a nagging feeling I've been hoodwinked.Well, John, I think you have been hoodwinked. The Malkins are just trying to have their cake and eat it too: First they "investigate" the "forged" memo; then they "investigate" the GOP coverups.
But uber-conservative pundit and blogger Michelle "Internment camps are good things" Malkin just wrote a rather incredible, forthright, and honest analysis of where things stands with the Schiavo memo. In a nutshell, she's asking if there wasn't some attempted GOP cover-up surrounding the memo, trying to blame Dems for it when it was really a GOP memo, etc.
Illegal immigrants sneak into San Diego homes to drink the blood of unsuspecting white babies? Jimmy Carter performed a human sacrifice in the Lincoln Bedroom back in '78 and that's why he's not going to the Pope's funeral? Hillary Clinton conspired to have a guy murdered and then covered it up? John Kerry shot his entire squad in Vietnam and replaced them with hippie look-a-likes he found partying with Hanoi Jane in Ho Chi Min City?As for why I think Jesse's the one sticking to his guns on the Schiavo memo, an alert reader forwarded this e-mail from the Malkin e-mail list (I don't subscribe - it requires personal information, and I don't want to end up on a list like this):
From: jessemalkin@comcast.net <>Whoops? Or the first step in admitting that they're a team?
Subject: Washington Post Digs In
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http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001992.htm
WASHINGTON POST DIGS IN
By Michelle Malkin · April 04, 2005 11:16 AM
You're gonna love this.
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes about the Schiavo memo once again, finally acknowledging that the Post did indeed report that the talking points were "distributed to Republican senators by party leaders."
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Disclosure is not the only issue. Perception matters, too. Do we really need another paid partisan hack to confirm what the liberal MSM already unfairly assumes of all conservatives in the media--that we're all on the payroll of the Republican Party and incapable of independent journalism?Disclosure and perception, you say?
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What's the matter, don't like looking at your pretty war, Michelle? Pictures of the dead and wounded don't get you off anymore, Powerline? Guess what? Freedom isn't free.Go read it.
You're awfully fond of that slogan, aren't you? Freedom isn't free.So why aren't you using these photos in your "support the troops" rallies? Why aren't you using them to remind us all what a solemn and glorified endeavor this war really is? Why do you so hate to look at the thing you profess to love?...
Freedom isn't free, you say, giving me the impression that whatever other xenophobic homophobic fundie whackjob tendencies you harbored, at least you understood that for your bravado somebody pays a price. I hope you got a receipt, because it sounds like freedom's a little more expensive than you counted on. In fact freedom's so fucking expensive you can't stand to be told what market price is these days.
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A one-page unsigned memo that became part of the debate preceding Congress' vote ordering a federal court review of the Terri Schiavo case originated in Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez' office, Martinez said Wednesday.Wow. It's a good thing the Malkins didn't waste any time, words, or credibility on this issue.
Will the last honest right-winger please turn out the lights?
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Okay, let's say you're right. What difference does it make?That's a good question. First of all, as noted in this post by LA, I am right, as has been confirmed by sources who have come forward since the original post. I was cagy about some of the evidence I had for multiple reasons, none of which I'll go into here.
Has "Michelle" ever blogged or written about topics related to what Jesse was working on for the government at the think tank while Jesse was still connected with the think tank in any way?
I chose a topic for a blog...My topic happens to be one particular writer.Michelle/Jesse love, love, love the idea of bloggers replacing the MSM as the source of investigative reporting. This is just playing by their rules.
Then I realized my topic is actually two particular writers, so I wrote that.
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No mind. Fonda's cynical non-apology "apology" keeps making headlines, just as she and her book publicists had hoped. This isn't about making amends. This is about making money..
Me! Me! Me! Hanoi Jane rides again.
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The revelation by the Williamette Week drove Goldschmidt, a high-level consultant and power broker, from public life.Good for him. And shame on the Oregonian for covering it up for eighteen years.As the award was announced in the offices of the Willamette Week, tears came to Jaquiss' eyes. Jaquiss is a former Wall Street stock trader who moved to Portland eight years ago to pursue a career in journalism.
I don't know how many alternative weeklies have won pulitzers, but it seems like quite an event to me.
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From the e-mailbox:I don't think it's that simple.Is that really you posting at ungodly hours of the night?Actually, ungodly hours of the morning. Yup, it's me. No gold-plated interns here at Malkin Central. Just me and my keyboard and my incurable insomnia.
Insomnia...it does a blogger good.
Jesse Malkin's first assignment for his new Filipino American reporter was collaborating on an article denouncing Oberlin's affirmative action program. Fellow students found the article offensive and showed their displeasure to Malkin & Company.Jesse earned his PhD in economic policy analysis from the Rand Graduate School, with most of his study related to the economics of health care. Goldsea:
His PhD thesis was The Postpartum Mandate: Estimated Costs and Benefits. That subject would be reprised in a paper Malkin later co-authored as a RAND consultant with three others titled Postpartum Length of Stay and Newborn Health: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Essentially, it finds medical benefit in extended hospital stays for women who had given birth. Another of his co-authored papers is titled How Much Does Global Warming Matter? and subtitled, “What the world's population needs most are more lavatories and better sewage systems.”Interestingly enough, the one area in which Michelle seems to straddle the line between liberal and conservative is health care. Here she admits that her health-care costs have risen dramatically, and here she actually uses the words "agree with Krugman" - that our health-care system is broken, particularly for the self-employed.
After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland's individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that "choice" wasn't much of a choice at all. We had to go on our own.Very admirable of Jesse to become a stay-at-home dad. But was that the only reason he quit?
Michelle has nothing against immigrants per se and would be the first to acknowledge that many immigrants make positive contributions to our country. She does, however, think that immigration should occur in a controlled, legal manner--and is particularly concerned that people who enter this country not be known terrorists or criminals. She also believes that tolerance of high levels of illegal immigration depresses wages among poorly-skilled workers and is unfair to those who wait in line to come here legally.Jesse, apparently, did this without Michelle's knowledge.
You remember the West Seattle High School anti-warHere:
student assembly we blogged about last week.
No, we're not turning into Wonkette, but our friendHere:
Spokane Spokesman-Review columnist Dave Oliviera has
an exclusive blog post...
Don't miss this hatchet job on our friends atOnce is a typo, twice is a figure of speech, three times - plus all the other evidence - makes me ready to state my conclusions for the records:
powerline by Jim Boyd...
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Nothing says "scumbag" like the transparently nasty wing nut tactic, just slightly more advanced than making shit up, of combing through posts on Democratic Underground to find a poster writing something stupid and then claiming this represents "liberal" thinking. Sorry, I missed the great liberal conspiracy meeting where they explained that liberal thought is encompassed by random twits posting on the net. Second to that sleazy tactic is sifting through the often lazy and confused live coverage of the Pope's death to find slights against him, religion, God and decorum, even if they have to be half-imagined.I'm sure Malkin is adding a chapter to her book - even as we speak - about the anti-Catholic bias of
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The system is young, so the planet is rather warm, like a bun fresh out of the oven. That warmth made it comparatively easier to see in the glare of its host star compared with more mature planets.
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Then Malkin updates from the Orlando Sentinel:He's been in a persistent vegetative state for more than a month, but a popular high school basketball coach has awakened.
...says the man awoke from a coma, not PVS.
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A year ago today, left-wing blogger and Democratic strategist Markos Moulitsos Zuniga of the Daily Kos cheered the brutal murders of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah--all of them war veterans with distinguished records, three of them fathers--with the following infamous words:Okay, not that Markos (himself a military veteran) needs me to defend him, but here's what he actually said:
"Screw them."
...April Fools' Day lesson: Bashing murdered veterans pays. No joke.
That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.And the next day, he explained: (emphasis mine)
There's been much ado about my indifference to the Mercenary deaths in Falluja a couple days ago. I wrote in some diary comments somewhere that "I felt nothing" and "screw them".I quoted the entire post, because context is ultimately vital in this situation. That's why Malkin's failure to provide it is a joke.
My language was harsh, and, in reality, not true. Fact is, I did feel something. That's why I was so angry.
I was angry that five soldiers -- the real heroes in my mind -- were killed the same day and got far lower billing in the newscasts. I was angry that 51 American soldiers paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly in Iraq in March alone. I was angry that these mercenaries make more in a day than our brave men and women in uniform make in an entire month. I was angry that the US is funding private armies, paying them $30,000 per soldier, per month, while the Bush administration tries to cut our soldiers' hazard pay. I was angry that these mercenaries would leave their wives and children behind to enter a war zone on their own violition.
So I struck back.
Unlike the vast majority of people in this country, I actually grew up in a war zone. I witnessed communist guerillas execute students accused of being government collaborators. I was 8 years old, and I remember stepping over a dead body, warm blood flowing from a fresh wound. Dodging bullets while at market. I lived in the midst's of hate the likes of which most of you will never understand (Clinton and Bush hatred is nothing compared to that generated when people kill each other for politics or race or nationality). There's no way I could ever describe the ways this experience colors my worldview.
Back to Iraq, our men and women in uniform are there under orders, trying to make the best of an impossible situation. The war is not their fault, and I will always defend their honor and bravery to the end of my days. But the mercenary is a whole different deal. They willingly enter a war zone, and do so because of the paycheck. They're not there for humanitarian reasons (I doubt they'd donate half their paycheck to the Red Cross or whatever). They're there because the money is DAMN good. They answer to no one except their CEO. They are dangerous, hence international efforts (however fruitless they may be) to ban their use.
So not only was I wrong to say I felt nothing over their deaths, I was lying. I felt way too much. Nobody deserves to die. But in the greater scheme of things, there are a lot of greater tragedies going on in Iraq (51 last month, plus countless civilians and Iraqi police). That those tragedies are essentially ignored these days is, ultimately, the greatest tragedy of all.
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