Tuesday, August 31, 2004

let's all get the kool-aid ready

this is just about the dumbest printed letter-to-the-editor i have ever read. it comes from my beloved local lafayette daily advertiser - which itself isn't exactly a model of journalistic insight. but still, to print such a letter is deplorable. when you read sentiment such as this your opinion of people's social and interpersonal acumen really takes a dive, no matter how low it already was.

people like this are the reason i'm on so much medication these days. anyway, it's not long:


War is about who can last longest, kill most
August 31, 2004

I am outraged at how people have been saying negative things about the war in Iraq. People are saying that the number of U.S. troops killed is too high, and we should have pulled out. In WW II alone the U.S. had hundreds of thousands killed, and they’re whining about a few hundred?

The whole idea of war is who can last the longest and kill the most. I have sympathy for all families that may have lost a loved in Iraq, but freedom is not free — it’s earned. You fight for the right to be free. Freedom is why our troops are dying in Iraq, for their freedom.

Most of the media adds to the confusion by reporting heavily on things like casualties, car bombings and Bush-administration bashing. I am a firm believer that the media has a Left-based agenda.

I’m just saying they should give it a break. Support the troops and keep you mouth shut until the war is over. These are terrorists that “hate” America. You can’t reason or talk peace with them.

John Cramer
Maurice


i hear the american dollar goes pretty far in costa rica. anyone?

album of the jour: ken stringfellow soft commands

7 comments:

Ian McGibboney said...

WOW!!

As Waylon Jennings might have said on the Dukes of Hazzard, that's a new high in lows.

If anyone figures out the Costa Rica question, find out too about Canada, will you please?

Phillip said...

yes yes, let's compare and contrast

Webmiztris said...

Yeah, that letter was pretty fuggin' stupid.

Flamingo Jones said...

"Soldiers are dying to protect freedom so don't you dare practice free speech!"

I'm so sick of hearing the same bit of faulty logic from the Right over and over again. If they would just stop parroting Bill O'Reilly and start firing up some neurons in their own brains, I'd buy them all a cookie.

I'm down with a mass exodus to Costa Rica. Or Vancouver. Basically anywhere that isn't here.

Phillip said...

word, word. i may still do it if kerry gets less than %80 of the vote. the fact that right now at least half the country feels this way is discouraging enough, regardless of the election outcome.

Mike Miley said...

I think you're spending too much ink on a guy from Maurice, phizz. He probably only sees five people a week (not counting the folks at City Bar).

Phillip said...

regardless, he's someone w2ho thinks enough of his own opinion to submit a letter about it to the paper. i don't think he's alone in his sentiment either.