Pentagon as a whole denying as well, but some individuals there are pissed.
Has anyone ever seen McClellan and Baghdad Bob together?
Just askin’.
Touche.
Of course it was thoroughly vetted and rehearsed. They had to.
GeeDubya has been hauling out military photo ops for years now. How many times have we been subjected to the same stem-winding stump speech for death, served to us as “news”. With no other object but to show us, once again, the boundless enthusiasm of Our Heroes for the Dear Leader. It used to work.
Those polls, which the White House is blissfully unaware of, are in free fall. For a politician, this is a spurting artery. So they reached for the old reliable, the military photo op. Wrap a turd in a flag, and some people will salute out of reflex.
Vetted? You fucking betcha vetted. Can you imagine how the fur would fly if a handsome young Marine chirped up “Yo, Mr. President, this bites the big green one. Fuck this shit, I wanna go home. I don’t know these people, I don’t like these people. Don’t want to kill any of them but I damn sure ain’t gonna die for them.”
They made damn sure who they had in front of that camera.
How many of our troops support the policy. I don’t know, niether do you. Can tell you within a margin of error how many citizens at large support the policy. But no clue as to how many of our troops support it.
I’m not going to find out. Neither will you. Which means that they don’t know either. Probably two, three years ago they wouldn’t have had to vett and script Our Heroes. Only thing they had to say was not too cheer too loud for Dear Leader. Only 10-20 "Hoo-A"s, guys, really, keep it down.
Probably not that many of us paid attention to the news story about how that Tillman boy died for a war he had no confidence in. But I’ll bet they did.
So, yeah, they vetted them. With a fine tooth comb, they vetted them. Lot of officers, right? Guys with careers to protect.
If we’re gonna get a “But Clinton–” response, it’s worth pointing out that John Kerry didn’t have a problem answering questions from hecklers in his Town Hall meetings.
But then, the man was a damn windsurfer, so there was no way he could get elected…
Guesss the WAR isn’t important anymore!
But then Kerry wasn’t a draft dodging AWOL drunken chickenhawk either.
So Sgt. Ron Long, one of the men speaking with the president has his own blog. Take it from the horse’s mouth instead of having it regurgitated by all the media spin machines. Ron Long John does not seem to agree that it was staged or rehearsed event. He thinks it’s merely a matter of having prepared themselves beforehand. Seems to me there ain’t nothing wrong with being well prepared.
Anyway Ron Long has a stupid name and his blog is full of bold letters and capitalised words – a sure sign that he should have his girlfriend kick him in the head with a steel boot. I just thought I’d let you guys know about the blog so you get some alternative views into that airtight bubble you live in. Alright, you can go back to throwing shit at your president now.
Hells Bells! I love thowing shit as much as the next guy, so I hope you don’t mind I join in. Your president is a fat stupid turdbungler that makes a below average intelligence platypus look smart by comparison!!!1 heh heh So is your piece of shit country. Heh heh. So are all americans heh heh or was that taking it too far?
Why do you hate America, you trrrst supporter?
In all seriousness though, why is this even a blip on the radar screen? It’s such a non story…just another opportunity for the impotent to whine, I suppose. Whining does feel good sometimes, though.
Fuck that, I didn’t vote for him, in either election.
You misunderstand, Ruin. There’s a blog by a service man that supports the Chosen One? Well, of course there is! You take any random group of one hundred American citizens your’re gonna find at least one who thinks GeeDubya heals the sick and raises the dead. I’m sure that holds true in the services as well. Add to that the entirely understandable human emotion not to believe that what you are doing is useless, or worse, destructive.
Of course, it is admirable that said Sgt. is willing to take such a risk, boldly and courageously agreeing with his superior officers. Inspiring.
What about the other ones? There must be some, mustn’t there? How many, do you think? I don’t know, neither do you, and they damn sure aren’t about tell us.
Well Sgt. Long (porno name!) was one of the hand picked little bitches. wasn’t he? He was selected for this stunt precisely because he was willing to be a suck up and a stooge. What else would you expect him to say? I would also remind you that US troops are not permitted to say anything critical of their leadership in public, so if this guy has a blog with his real name on it, he has no choice but to clap his little flippers and bark like a good little seal.
As for the “media spin machine” they caught the rehearsal right there on camera. It doesn’t require much spin.
The thing that bothers me the most about these staged events is that Bush now thinks he knows the true feelings of the troops over in Iraq.
“Why, I just talked to a buncha them the other day. They all think things are going great and that the Iraqi people are behind them 110%. Anyone thinking differently is just a defeatist liberal who is looking to cut and run. We gotta stay the course and fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. Bring em on!” :wally
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Oh you are so damned right !!
Having dinner with the troops for what was it ? Thanksgiving? Oh and how can we forget his strutting on that aircraft carrier after the Mission was Accomplished?
One other reason President Dubya likes appearing with the military is they are a “captive audience” so to speak. Since he is the Commander In Chief, aren’t people in the military obligated to treat him with the respect that would be accorded any real military officer? So, even if the military personnel were not pre-selected, they would still be obligated to behave in a manner consistent with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Yes, even if you had a disgruntled soldier talking to the President it would be very detrimental to tell the President to go fuck himself.
No the point with Sgt. Ron Long Silver wasn’t that he was just any old fool in the shirt, but that he was actually one of those guys talking to the Anointed One. So. You wasn’t there, Keith Olbermann wasn’t there, I sure as hell wasn’t there, Clinton might have been there but he isn’t saying. However Ron Long was there. So what we gonna do? Go with all those who wasn’t there and only know by hear-say, or take the word of the one guy who was there?
Ruin? A freudian slip I presume.
Well, I also hand pick my bitches with the utmost care. Not that that ever made any of my girls do as I told them.
Supposedly he could have kept mum.
Anyway it’s your president, not of my problem and I’m off to bed.
So we should take his word for everything becasue he was there, and discount any agenda he might have? You’re kidding, right?
“I didn’t rape, kill, and eat those boys!”
“Well, you were there, I guess you’d know. Let’s pack it up, boys!”
Sounds like an agenda to me.
Several years ago The Daily Show did a short bit about Bush speaking to some factory workers. They pointed out that he was standing in front of a painted backdrop of boxes that said “made in America” while in front of his podium were real boxes from the factory with tape over them to cover “made in China”
It struck me as totally symbolic of what this guy and his presidency was all about.
Total Bullshit. It proven more and more true since that clip. We shouldn’t tolerate this kind of staged dishnest BS from any public official. If you know the cameras are watching and decide to do something that you think might get points for you thats one thing. If you totally falsify and orchestrate the event with complete bias in order to present a one sided and dishonest view to the public then that should tell us enough about a man’s charecter to know we should get him or her** OUT ** ASAP