War mongering chickenhawks -- the lowest form of life on earth.
Lower even than Hitler who did serve and was wounded in combat.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Armchair Patriots
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
-Richard Aldington
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-Bertrand Russell
They are the ones who are shouting the loudest for others to die in foreign lands, they are the ones waving the flag the most vigorously while undermining all that it is supposed to stand for. These are the Armchair Patriots, and they are legion. The insistence of the most vile of all, the Republican party, a group that has come to symbolize the darkest of all American traits to 'wave the bloody flag' and tar all others as disloyal and tresonous is a low point in our nation's history. This made it especially nice to see the party's failure to mount a successful effort to implement a constitutional ban on flag burning. "Old Glory" lost today" moaned Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist, his latest crusade to amend our governing document to include language denying rights to Americans beaten back by only one vote.
Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii gets it, a World War II veteran who lost an arm in service to his country said in regards to the Republican push for the amendment:
"Our country's unique because our dissidents have a voice....While I take offense at disrespect to the flag...I nonetheless believe it is my continued duty as a veteran, as an American citizen and as a United States senator to defend the constitutional right of protesters to use the flag in nonviolent speech."
Of course being a Democrat he is by that very association deemed `unpatriotic' and a `coward' in using the dastardly labeling of Frist, Karl Rove and the rest of the unscrupulous and yellow thugs who control the government, the media, the courts and by extension are the operators of the message machine that spits out the hateful swill that motivates the most reactionary and ignorant segments of the populace who represent their base. This anti-American political party could never carry the torch were it not for their deception and demagoguery in playing to the most base and vile instincts of the perennially angry. Like any good purveyor of tyranny enabling double speak and race baiting, they have a little something for everybody.
Festering resentment towards women? Welcome to the party.
Hate Mexicans and Blacks? Step right in.
Think that the liberals are destroying the country? We do too.
Are you on God's side? Hallelujah, so are we.
Do you want to defeat the homosexual agenda? We are on your side and God is too.
The Constitution? It's just a goddamned piece of paper, we have the flag!
As if it should be any surprise the GOP also plans to load their legislative calendar with other contentious issues including another constitutional amendment to discriminate against American citizens who are gay, more attacks on liberalism, whipping up the armed to the teeth militia fanatics by fear mongering that the Democrats are coming to take their guns away and inciting the overthrow of the judicial system. Denny's House of Pork will be very busy as the rotund rascal of the rotunda has promised:
"Radical courts have attempted to gut our religious freedom and redefine the value system on which America was built. We hope to restore some of those basic values through passing this legislative agenda and renewing our country's commitment to faith, freedom and life"
The values volk are anything but patriotic and their value system is anything but American.
Flag desecration? Let the Republicans wrap themselves in it, what could be more disrespectful than that. Consider their collective military service, the majority of them have never worn a uniform, or at least never worn one in the service of their country.
The Big Kahunas:
George W. Bush: Served in National Guard through the grace of a rich and influential daddy (then he didn't bother to show up for his last year and fuck what the right-wing activists say, Dan Rather was the victim of a Rove setup to derail the story)
Dick Cheney: Never Served (multiple draft deferments)
Tom DeLay: Never Served ("so many minority youths had volunteered that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself")
Condi Rice: Never Served
Karl Rove: Never Served
Sen. Bill Frist: Never Served
Dennis Hastert: Never Served
The Patriotic Peanut Gallery:
Gov. Jeb Bush: Never Served
Sen. Rick Santorum: Never Served
Sen. John Kyl: Never Served
Sen. John Cornyn: Never Served
Sen. George Allen: Never Served (*-see excellent story at end of post on this douchebag)
Gov. Arnold Scharzenegger: Never Served (although his daddy once served in Adolf Hitler's military)
The Neo Cons (the architects of the war)
Donald Rumsfeld: He actually served! (which makes him stick out like a turd in a punchbowl with the rest of this crowd)
Paul Wolfowitz: Never Served
Richard Perle: Never Served
Eliot Abrams: Never Served
Doug Feith: Never Served
The Flag Waving Electronic Demagogues:
Bill O'Reilly: Never Served
George Will: Never Served
Bill Bennett: Never Served
Chris Matthews: Never Served
Sean Hannity: Never Served
Ann Coulter: Never Served (and Godlessly so I might add)
Michael Weiner (aka Michael Savage): Never Served
Rush Limbaugh: Never Served (by the way, when you were caught with the Viagra nobody bothered to ask this question: were you fucking girls or boys?)
Beginning to notice a pattern here?
I have neither the time nor the space to continue with the chicken hawk roll call but rest assured the aforementioned have plenty of company amongst their cowardly ranks.
They are Armchair Patriots, those who detest American values but wave the flag as though it were some sort of shield for their fascism.
Armchair patriots believe in war without their own personal sacrifice, they believe that war is the simplistic jingoism of the John Wayne, Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone movies that they have been weaned on.
By the way, John Wayne never served either.
According to a survey/poll just released by the National Research Center at the University of Chicago, that incubator of neocon icons like Leo Strauss and Milton Friedman America is tops in national pride....God bless the USA and may the rockets red glare now be just a little brighter come Tueday.
What this survey means is absolutely nothing, just more agit-prop and red meat for the 4th of July BBQs. Interestingly enough if you apply the same sort of pretzel logic utilized by FOX News White House adjunct Tony Snow whose time traveling reference to polling Americans in the aftermath of the `Battle of the Bulge' to make a bizarre analogy to `cutting and running' from Iraq can be invoked here as well. Conversely if you could take a trip through Tony's time tunnel and conduct the exact same survey in say the mid-1930s, which country do you think would have won the hallowed national pride/most patriotic honor?
A nice little patriotic swastika adorned lapel pin is the prize to the lucky winner.
GOD BLESS AMERICA and our holy flag!
* - This is fucking brilliant:
Va. Senate race heats up over flag burning
By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press WriterWed Jun 28, 2:41 PM ET
Republican Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) attacked his Democratic challenger's opposition to a flag-burning amendment, and James Webb retaliated by calling Allen a coward who sat out the Vietnam War "playing cowboy at a dude ranch in Nevada."
The statement by a senior adviser to Webb, a decorated veteran and former secretary of the Navy, went to extraordinary lengths to question Allen's fortitude, even repeatedly using the middle name the senator detests and never uses, Felix.
"While Jim Webb and others of George Felix Allen Jr.'s generation were fighting for our freedoms and for our symbols of freedom in Vietnam, George Felix Allen Jr. was playing cowboy at a dude ranch in Nevada," said Webb strategist Steve Jarding in the statement Tuesday.
Allen adviser Dick Wadhams called Jarding's comments pathetic and said they raise questions about Webb's fitness for office.
"They're saying we questioned (Webb's) patriotism, and that's a lie," Wadhams said. "We just raised a legitimate question about whether he supports a flag amendment or not. How is that questioning his patriotism?"
The rhetorical crossfire began after an Allen news release noted Webb's opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to ban desecration of the U.S. flag.
Allen voted in favor of the amendment Tuesday evening when the measure failed by one vote to get the two-thirds majority required.
The news release by Allen's campaign said Webb's opposition to the amendment shows he is beholden to liberal Sens. John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Charles Schumer, who all voted against the amendment.
Within hours, Webb lashed back, calling Allen's news release "weak-kneed attacks by cowards."
"People who live in glass dude ranches should not question the patriotism of real soldiers who fought and bled for this country on a real battlefield," Jarding said.
Webb left the Republican party over Bush's handling of the war in Iraq. He has written novels informed by his Vietnam experience and a recent non-fiction book "Born Fighting."
Allen is a first-term senator mentioned as a possible 2008 presidential candidate. While he was a student at the University of Virginia, Allen worked summers at ranches in the Southwest.
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posted by Charon at 7:05 AM
5 Comments:
Anonymous said...
Who cares that those chickenhawks never served. So what? I never served either. That does not make me a chicken or a chickenhawk. That does not mean I have any less right to speak out with my opinions about war and the military.
Personally, I believe that anyone who wants to start a war, especially a war of chioice like the Iraqi War or the Vietnam conflict, then that person should have to serve in their war, at the front lines!
I don't care about that person's age, physical abilities, mental abilities, family situation, financial situation, employment position, or anything else about that person. You want us to fight and die? You fight and die first!
The people of Iraq have no choice, they are stuck with our war. They must suffer and die in our war. That especially includes the elderly, the children, the physically and mentally challenged, the sick and everyone else that is not in top physical shape.
So, if you want to start a war, and you are of voting age, then you should be to first to go die in your war. You choose our soldiers to kill people in a war? Then you choose to be the first fight and to die in your war.
Kevin Schmidt, Sterling VA
6/30/2006 04:15:48 PM
Anonymous said...
Yep, a lot of folks who remember John Wayne ranting on about the "Yella" folks who didn't want to go to Vietnam and the superpatriotism of his rhetoric don't know that during WWII, when people like my father were getting shot up and either did not return or came back like him with a clutch of purple hearts, silver stars, and bronze stars, John Wayne, even then a millionaire, was the "only means of support" of his children, and spent the war years making movies such as "Return to Iwo Jima".
War has no fury like a non-combattant.
6/30/2006 07:21:07 PM
Anonymous said...
Praise Bush the Son of God and Pass the Ammunition!
God has ordered the chosen people of America to rev up the tank engines and pump round after round of anointed Depleted Uranium shells into foreign cities in the name of JESUS!
Halleluia and Rove be thy name!
Thy Kingdom come and steaks be done.
7/01/2006 03:55:22 AM
Willard Russell said...
What really frosts the chickenhawks, is that Hanoi Jane spent more time in a war zone than the Bush administration did.
7/01/2006 08:07:25 AM
Anonymous said...
I watched all the press coverage on Bush taking a trip to Graceland where Elvis lived. The news reports said that Bush looked uncomfortable-I wonder why. George, could it be that you may had felt a little guilty that Elvis left his high stature career, got his beautiful hair shaved off, put on a uniform, and was shipped to Korea!!!!!! And Elvis did not try to get deferments like Bush-Elvis served gladly. Elvis makes George Bush look like the scardy cat, rich boy that he was and still is!!!! Feel guilty, Bushie Boy, you ought to. Elvis was an American-You are a Fascist!!!!!!!!!!
7/01/2006 08:43:17 AM
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