Posted on 02/03/2006 5:41:03 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 2, 2006) -- In a rare letter co-signed by the the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior military leaders of the United States objected to a political cartoon published in the Jan. 29 issue of the Washington Post.
Led by Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and signed by the vice chief and the senior officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, the letter addressed what the leaders agreed was a “callous” cartoon.
Editorial cartoonist Tome Toles depicted the U.S. Army as a quadruple amputee, attended to by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who lists the patient as “battle hardened.”
The Joint Chiefs agreed the cartoon was offensive. Responding with what they termed a “rare” unanimously signed letter, they said “we cannot let this reprehensible cartoon go unanswered.”
The letter expresses the military leaders’ disappointment with the content, noting that while editorial cartoons exaggerate issues, they believe the cartoon was “a callous depiction of those who have volunteered to defend this nation, and as a result, have suffered traumatic and life-altering wounds.”
“While you or some of your readers may not agree with the war or its conduct, we believe you owe the men and women and their families who so selflessly serve our country the decency not to make light of their tremendous physical sacrifice,” stated the letter.
The letter, printed in the Feb. 2 letters section of the Post, received national media attention.
Generals ARE Hopping MAD at the WaPo!!!
I say we declare "Jihad" on the Washington Post and burn it down!
That's what the religion of pieces would do.
/johnny
"Your Honor, we have no recollection as to who programmed the coordinates of The comPost's hq building into that errant missile's guidance control section. $hit happens, ya know?"
now now.... the best way is to find out just who their advertisers are and flood them with letters complaining about the WaPo and telling them that you will not buy their product of service until they pull all ads from the WaPo. Now you have everyone's attention without resorting to any sort of violence.
Please see reply #6.
Well, I was being a bit sarcastic. But in all seriousness, I was just starting a post on my site to do just what you mentioned above.
Please see reply #8.
The WaTimes would love to see the WaPo fall on serious hard times and become a weekly throw away paper.
And the MSM wonders why it's loosing its readership ... why newspapers are laying off people ...
to them..... it's all Boo-shizzzz fault!
expulsion
Unlike the cowering and falling over themselves to apologize they would be doing if the angry letter were from CAIR, I'm sure the Washington Post feels very proud of itself..."Mission Accomplished".
BTTT
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