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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (569365)	4/27/2004 10:36:59 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

And they were sitting in a latrine when that wall fell. And they have all gone swimming. Leftists Revile Tillman, 'Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan' If anyone still doubts the America-hating bent of the far left, this item is for you. Something that calls itself Independent Media Center, which OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto calls "one of the most virulent Angry Left Web sites around," has hit rock bottom. Its branch in P.C.-crazed Portland, Ore., has a page devoted to the death in combat of Pat Tillman, which it summarizes as "Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan." Among the comments posted by those "tolerant liberals": # "Tillman chose to go to Afghanistan. He's partially reponsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan civilians. No need to feel sorry for him, other than feeling bad that he was brainwashed into serving as a grunt." # "it's amazing the kind of attention this insignificant incident is going to cause. well, he was rich, white, and an american. 10,000 (brown) iraqis get killed, and it barely merits a mention in the american news. how utterly f---ing sad." # "if he 'sacrificed' anything it was his common sense. He had a good American thing going and blew it." Are these the same leftists who ridiculed war hero Bob Dole but say John Kerry's four months in Vietnam was so great? Taranto noted that a few posters dared to disagree with the party line. One wrote: "Brave American sacrifices friends, family and fortune in defense of his country. Pigs on IndyMedia can now continue to exercise free speech, sacrifice nothing and spew hate." newsmax.com