Posted on 06/13/2008 7:53:48 AM PDT by SmithL
This episode featured the story of a young, fresh-faced Iraqi War vet, a big, shy sweetheart of a kid who, it turns out, had both of his legs blown off at the knee by an improvised explosive device. As a commemoration, he came to the shop to get a giant flaming skull tattooed on his shoulder — a skull with, um, a couple of femur bones stuck in there, somehow, in honor of his former appendages. Well, OK.
I hereby shall not question the kid's garish taste in body art. But in the process of describing his injury to the artist/camera, the guy said something rather startling, something I didn't quite expect, considering his young age and his lack of legs and the violence with which they were taken from him, even though it's a refrain we've all heard a million times before.
In sum, he said, You know what? Despite the horror of it, despite the brutal war, it turns out getting my legs blown off was probably the best thing to ever happen to me. It made me appreciate life in a new way, discover new abilities, experience a new vitality.
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Bush: Darkworker!
LOL!! And liberals think WE see things in black and white.
Poor Morford; he truly believes that Bush is the be-all, end-all of the conservative movement. I'm afraid he'd poop out his own guts if he realized that most of us are even farther to the right...
Speak for yourself, scumbag.
This veteran is worth 10,000 Morfordites....nah, more like a million.
Why is this sick deviant allowed to contribute to the CO2 burden of the world. Give him a little boy and send him to an isolated island so as to restrict his spread of infectious diseases.
The first paragraph reads like an Acid Trip. He gets paid to write this? Memo to Morford: Hunter S. Thompson was trying to be funny.
A useless war? 25 million people out from decades of brutal oppression and building a democratic society is useless?
And a safer world to live in!
1) During the Bush Administration Libya gives up its nuclear weapons program.
2) During the Bush Administration the black market from Pakistan led by A.Q.Kahn for nuclear weapons technology is broken up.
3) During the Bush Administration North Korea begins dismantling their plutonium enrichment reactors.
4) During the Bush Administration Israel and the U.S.A. destroy Syria's nuclear weapons enrichment reactors.
5) During the Bush Administration, Saddam Hussein who said quite clearly while in jail awaiting his trial that he would have had the U.N. sanctions broken and be in full production of WMDs within a year. That would be the years 2004 - 2005 approximately that Saddam would have been re-armed with WMDs. It now goes without saying the obvious that Saddam will not be getting nuclear weapons anytime soon. Nor will he be directly funding and training the terror group 'Islamic Jihad' which is al-Qaeda and whom blew up two U.S. embassies. (see the recent: Iraqi Perspectives Project).
6) During the Bush Administration the U.S.A. has nuclear weapon ambitious Iran pinned in on both sides from Afghanistan and Iraq which is pure strategic genius.
Under Clinton the countries Pakistan and India successfully test nuclear weapons and North Korea begins plutonium enrichment.
” Because America has, figuratively speaking, had its legs blown off at the knee. We have been hobbled and traumatized and numbed, our once indestructible ego ripped away, had our entire moral and ethical infrastructure blasted out from under us in the most bloody and irresponsible and ignoble way possible.”
Talk about a hissy fit.
I think he’s trying to say things haven’t been going well.
If McCainiac wins in Nov, Mofordites are going be be suicidal.
Af, finally a reason to send in a contribution.
A culture is as ill as it supports its Morfords.
Morford is so...San Francisco.
A million times zero is still zero.
What a Putz. He makes no sense and is a bad writer to boot.
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