Posted on 09/01/2007 7:44:57 PM PDT by kristinn
In a frontpage article in the Outlook section of Sunday's Washington Post entitled "Drinking. Brawling. Hurting.", a leftist anti-Bush Yale anthropologist graduate, Sarah Stillman, paints a picture of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center abusing alcohol at Washington, D.C. area nightclubs to indict the Bush administration and the war on terror.
Readers would not know Stillman is a Bush-hating leftist by reading The Post's description of her: Sarah Stillman, a 2006 Yale graduate, is a Marshall Scholar writing a doctoral thesis on gender, violence and the media.
However, her 2005 Huffington Post profile describers her thusly: Sarah Stillman is a senior at Yale University, where she is earning her simultaneous Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Anthropology. An active participant in the global justice movement, she has worked abroad with grassroots anti-sweatshop organizers in Shenzhen, China (www.cwwn.org), returned refugees in rural Guatemala (www.mesaglobal.org), and unionizing sex workers in Bangkok, Thailand.
Further reading of Stillman's Huffington Post blog reveals her 2005 trip to Venezuala. She wrote about that trip with contemptuous condescension for President Bush in nearly every paragraph:
I arrived home from a week in Caracas, Venezuela just in time to catch the latest episode of the Manifest Destiny Variety Show, starring George “The Liberator” Bush and his much-anticipated plans for renewal in Iraq. And let me tell you, it was a mammoth relief to sit down in my air-conditioned TV room at 8 pm on Tuesday and discover that my Commander-in-Chief hasn't missed a beat in the War on Terror. Because for a second there, the men and women I met during my time in Caracas came pretty close to convincing me otherwise.
.....But that wasn't the only travel-induced wrinkle that Bush Jr.'s speech ironed out for me. The people of Venezuela also had me raising an eyebrow when I sat down to watch their state-run news program, on which I witnessed--FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ BEGAN--a televised sequence of Iraqi victims: a young girl whose face had been bombed into a shiny pink goop; an older man whose shrapnel-filled guts lined the street. What's more, I finally saw the corpses of U.S. troops, who have thus far appeared to me only in the occasional form of yearbook photos sandwiched between staged statue-topplings and “Mission Accomplished” Kodak moments. It was enough to make me wonder: as quotidian as charred flesh and crushed skulls have become in Iraq, why do I have to travel more than 2,000 miles to view this devastating footage?
....Hence, my relief when Bush Jr. was finally able to give my exclamation-weary eyebrows a break on Tuesday night, in his first presidential address to the nation since who-remembers-when. Assuaging my doubts about the efficiency (not to mention integrity) of pouring billions of dollars into the Iraqi occupation, he pointed out that "we're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East." Rectifying my misperception that the U.S. troops are blindly bombing the bejesus out of the Iraqi people, he informed me that we are, in fact, “laying the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.” Quelling my concerns about the impunity he has gifted to the self-confessed bomber Luis Posada Carriles, he reminded me who the REAL terrorists are (you know, those Arabs around every corner who hate freedom, tolerance, little old ladies, chocolate sprinkles, me, you, etc.).
Gone is the momentary but terrible terror of doubting the War on Terror. Of course, if I lived in a country like Venezuela, I might have to entertain the possibility that the respite wouldn't last more than a precious hour or two; that my fellow citizens would be out marching in the streets against such Orwellian inversions and empty cheerleading; that the military men and women who are returning home from Iraq would cry out for their lost limbs and their forfeited sanity; that the uncensored newsreels of what's REALLY happening over there might yank the tidy ribbon off of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
But here in America, I needn't worry about such things. And so, when I finally get around to unpacking my suitcase this afternoon, I promise to pause for a moment as I slip my U.S. passport back into my desk drawer, tossing up a “Thank-you-Jesus” that I'm an heiress of the liberty-lovin', darkeness-dispellin' Lucky Sperm Club.
Stillman writes in The Post that she is "a 23-year-old occasional volunteer at Walter Reed and the girlfriend of a soldier serving in Iraq..."
The theme of her article in The Post is that the war is creating a generation of traumatized soldiers who are getting drunk and getting in fights because the evil Bush administration ruined their lives forever.
Bear in mind, Stillman has a masters degreee in anthropology--she studies humanity.
Stillman tries to make a case for a nationwide epidemic of whacked-out Iraq veterans getting drunk and getting in fights or killing themselves.
So what does Stillman do about it besides writing a hit piece in The Post? She takes soldiers with traumatic brain injuries in her car to D.C. area bars so they can get drunk so she can write about them in The Post:
On a recent night, I loaded up the car with TBI-afflicted friends, including Pete (who, for the record, is funny and smart and kind), and drove to a happy-go-lucky bar in Adams Morgan in the District, where the drinks come with cheerful pink umbrellas.
Shame on them (is about all I can comment without being banned.)
That is just sick. But the she and the WaPo won’t get away with it if we don’t let them.
Grrrr.....
It's an old, old theme, kristinn. One that those of us who have been around long enough have heard before. Remember the stories of the homeless, drugged, drunken Nam vets who were that way because they fought for their country, largely contrived. Old, old stuff.
What a sick b****!
And how, in the name of all that is Holy, does this deranged piece of trash get into WRAMC to gather her human guinea pigs (our hero soldiers) for her anthropological experimentation?
Excellent research!
It is always good to document the blatant biases of journalists. Now we wait to see if the Washington Post will take any action (but I’m not going to hold my breath).
“The theme of her article in The Post is that the war is creating a generation of traumatized soldiers who are getting drunk and getting in fights because the evil Bush administration ruined their lives forever.”
She like someone who’s never been on a college campus.
I can't imagine anything that you could say that would get you banned after all that you've done for this site. And I highly doubt the moderators would ban somebody simply for an emotional outburst on how reporters are using our wounded soldiers as pawns to support their ideologies. I might call the reporters some vile names, but I just can't think up any curse word bad enough to describe them. For now, 'traitors' and 'scum' will have to do.
Why doesn’t she just head back to Venezuela — I am sure Presidente for life Hugo would welcome her back. Hopefully she doesn’t notice the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelanos who are making a break for the United States, Brazil, Mexico or anywhere else where Chavez isn’t.
It’s the “Platoon/Apocalypse Now” template. The trouble is the latest crop of “psycho vets” has so far been a disappointment. The New Media makes it too easy to investigate and discredit the self-proclaimed “babykillers” as fast as they put them up.
So now, they’re reduced to growing their own.
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“In my own small way, I’ve seen the price of this negligent government policy, coupled with the military stigma against seeking help for psychological distress. I’ve sat outside the hospital with Pete’s friends as they drank heavily, talked about friends’ corpses, compared R.I.P. tattoos and fed their psych meds to the squirrels to pass the slow-drip nights. I’ve held the forehead of my courageous boyfriend, Robert, as he shivered on the cold tile floor of our hotel room, vomiting Scotch, on our last vacation in January, before his most recent deployment. We laughed at his New Year’s resolution — “Don’t get blown up” — but all the while my brain screamed, “This can’t be normal!” because, well, my heart knew it wasn’t, and because I sensed the deeper pain his jokes masked.
“You don’t get the option to not be scarred by war,” he recently wrote me from Iraq. “You don’t get to shed your uniform and go home like nothing’s different. You forever carry the seeds of violence inside.”
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I’ve got a sinking feeling that her courageous boyfriend Robert is soon going to be having second thoughts on how their relationship began. Was she interested in him or...?
This then would be the distaff version of Murtha-ism. Slime our heroes while pretending to be their champion.
This spoiled middle class punk needs to
taken to the wood shed.
I’ll bet she’s just another indoctrinated
commie from our so-called finest educational
institutiions.
A degree in anthropolgy is worthless except for demonizing the western culture.
I have some other observations, but I'll save them for a more appropriate forum.
Like at a bar, with some of my buds, raising a glass, full of alcohol, preferably blended.
It appears that this skank's vagina monologue has a yeast infection that no amount of Monistat will cure.
I hope everyone who reads this understands that September 15 may well be the pivotal moment in history when leftist elite "lucky sperm club" members begin to understand that THEY DO NOT REPRESENT WHAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT IN AMERICA, we do!
I will see you in Washington DC on September 15.
Simply another case of a know it all, screwed up leftist..
Like Islamists - problems with folks like this, can’t be resolved with diplomacy or negotiation........they simply need their asses busted.
Lovely, ain't it?
Sounds like she's tryin' to turn them into f_gs.
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