Obscene gloating over US failures in Iraq

Boston Globe ^ | 22 May 2004 | Cathy Young

[Lando Lincoln]

Comments?

Lando

[Mr. Mojo]

ARE SOME Americans, including journalists, rooting for the enemy while their country is at war?

Yes, and many are employed at the Boston Globe.

But if John Kerry does the highly improbable and becomes the next CIC most of these same anti-war journalists will do a quick 180 and start rooting like hell for us. .....So they're not so much anti-war as their are anti-Bush.

The cheering section in the U.S. media for Clinton's Balkans bombing campaign (where thousands of innocent Christian Serbs met their deaths) convinced me that partisan politics is the primary determining factor in the media's attitude toward any particular war. .....apparently even wars where our very lives are at stake.

[jmstein7]

Interesting BUMP!

[Mr. Mojo]

apparently even wars where our very lives are at stake.

And to be clear, I'm talking about the WOT here, not the Kosovo War.

[Pharmer]

This comes from the Boston Globe? My feet are cold!

[Mr. Mojo]

Her editors back on the East Coast were giggling, she said, over what a disaster Iraq had turned out to be.

Giggling and dancing on the graves of people far greater than they could ever even dream of becoming.

[oh8eleven]

ARE SOME Americans, including journalists, rooting for the enemy while their country is at war?
Does a bear .....?

[Polybius]

"ARE SOME Americans, including especially journalists, rooting for the enemy while their country is at war?"

Yes.

[MEG33]

I am so angry at those who want to get Bush so badly that they had rather win an election than win the war, I am sick of the European or American anti Americanism, people who care not if we are right or wrong...only that we are humiliated or suffer. Blame Bush or America First crowd.

I am sick of a press who ignores the good things happening and gets hysterical 24/7 over the setbacks or bad things happening. They are our fifth column. We are at war...our nation needs to be more evenhanded and love their nation more than they hate Bush...Isolationists need to face which century we are in.

Any one who wishes for more innocent Iraqi deaths or more American deaths to get Bush are simply evil. They want to prove they were right..no matter what the human cost.

God bless our armed forces...

[rageaholic]

The same is true here. If this were Gore's war, how many erstwhile pro-invasion Conservatives would then be trashing American efforts in Iraq? The key is to think for one's self, a difficult exersize for many.

[Lando Lincoln]

Amen, MEG33, Amen.

Lando

[Sister_T]

If this were Gore's war,

And therein lies the difference! If Gore were president, this wouldn't be an issue because we wouldn't be at war!

[MEG33]

#9

[Mr. Mojo]

If this were Gore's war, how many erstwhile pro-invasion Conservatives would then be trashing American efforts in Iraq?

Trashing strategy is one thing, rooting for the other side to win is quite another. Regarding the former, there are quite a few pro-Bush Freepers (including yours truly) who indeed occasionally criticize the administration's strategy in Iraq. But every last one of us (obviously) roots enthusiastically for us to win the war. If Gore were Prez I honestly don't see how things would be different: Freepers would call it as they see it, criticizing strategy (when need be) and at the same time rooting for victory. Conservatives are much more patriotic than liberals, so we're much more likely to put partisan politics aside when we're at war. .....especially a war for our very survival.

[TomGuy]

Her editors back on the East Coast were giggling, she said, over what a disaster Iraq had turned out to be

These people still don't understand the severity of the problem terrorists represent.

Regrettably, it will take another extreme terrorist attack, killing many thousands before the libs begin to understand.

Potentially, 9-11-01 and the attacks on the WTC could have caused upwards of 40,000 deaths in EACH tower. Luckily, most people below the two entry points of the planes were able to escape.

[Saundra Duffy]

This is happening all over the world. President Bush must put a stop to this before it's too late. The media and the liberals are having themselves a field day!!

[Proud Legions]

Actually, not many conservatives would be acting like the journalists and liberals are currently acting. You just have to go back to Kosovo and Bosnia to see. While many conservatives did voice some concerns, one can check the archives for articles, editorials, op-eds, etc long and hard and will not find a steady drumbeat of negativity and anti-Americanism in teh 90's against our military and thier efforts that we are seeing today from the media, liberals, and academia (is that redundent?) in our own country.

[Proud Legions]

Probably true. We would be holding focus group sessions with terrorists to see what we could do for them so they would not be so angry at us....

[aculeus]

When to publish a conservative column?

On the Globe's lowest circulation day: Saturday.

[Travis McGee]

On another thread, we already narrowed down the ID of this traitoress to 3 or 4 possiblilities, with one "very strong probable."

Not that Peter, Tom, Dan and the rest are any better.

Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw were hanged after WW2. Today Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw broadcast from NY instead of Berlin or Tokyo.

They are still traitors.