Posted on 08/16/2005 7:05:04 AM PDT by Sloth
Thoughtful post.
Amen...spot on!
Hear, hear...
Sounds a lot like one of my own rants regarding Sheehan and the use of the word sacrifice. But yours is better than my impromptu rant.
Thanks.
Agreed. Also, if one of my children's names was used, as the leftists are now putting up white crosses with KIA'd troops names on them, I'd be driving down there to kick somebody's ass.
I have often thought the same about our use of the word "courage". Used to be, courage was when you did something self-denying and heroic for the common good. Now, it is used to describe when you overcome something which was just your own issue, ie, nothing for the common good at stake, such as "one person's courageous fight against cancer". That is not using the word in the time honored way. This would be correct, "one person's courageous fight against City Hall" would be accurate.
As you say, this is more than semantics. It is about morality itself. The fact that we now use "sacrifice" and "courage" in utterly self-centered and self-serving ways says something about us.
Exactly. I am reminded of how Magic Johnson was touted as heroic and courageous after his HIV+ status was made public.
Pics of the moonbat's first meeting with Bush.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45800
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Sacrifice begets Sacrifice:
MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts
Sacrifice begets Sacrifice:
http://www.RickRescorla.com
http://www.strategyzoneonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
....just for the LOVE of it..!!!
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Oh, yeah, perfect example.
(sung to "Witch Queen Of New Orleans")
Cindy Sheehan la voodoo veau
She'll put a spell on you.
Cindy Sheehan la voodoo veau
She'll put a spell on you.
Cindy Sheehan la voodoo veau
She's the Ditch Witch, oh
of Vacaville
I'm gonna tell you a story
strange as it now seems
of zombie moonbat DUmmies
and the Ditch Witch of Vacaville.
She lived in a world of cameras
Possessed by the liberals' skew
From a ditch near the Bush ranch
Called the Carey Camp,
Cindy stirred her left-wing spew.
Cindy Sheehan la voodoo veau
She'll put a spell on you.
Cindy Sheehan la voodoo veau
She'll put a spell on you.
Cindy Sheehan la voodoo veau
She's the Ditch Witch, oh
of Vacaville
Excellent post, Sloth!
"The truth, however, is that Sheehan has sacrificed nothing. Her son Casey may have had value to her, but she did everything in her power to keep him from going to Iraq. She opposed his enlistment. She never chose to risk Casey's life for any greater purpose; therefore she can be credited no sacrifice on his account. Casey Sheehan sacrificed himself. He voluntarily signed up with the Army, and voluntarily renewed his enlistment."
So true. Values and sacrifice go hand in hand. It's hard to have one without the other. Cindy Sheehan seems to be almost completely void of values and lives purely in the world of emotions. I cringe everytime I hear a lib say "it's my RIGHT!" because I know full-well that most of them have never (nor would they ever) lift a finger to work for or work to keep that right. They just want it, demand it, and scream that they deserve it. People like Cindy Sheehan are takers, not givers. Casey Sheehan was a giver.
I am reminded of a recent Onion headline that was something like "Man Fights Cowardly Battle with Cancer"
Well, there is one thing where I think the crazies have a point, which is that reverence of government behavior is not the same as patriotism. One can be a patriot without approving of US foreign policy. The difference, I think, is that many liberals who seem not to like their country in ANY way -- they think we're all dumb, arrogant, fat boors and hate that we're mostly Christian -- like to hide behind this fact. Sure, there are many forms of patriotism, but for many liberals, none apply to them.
re: sacrifice. Yes lives, American, so-called coalition, and Iraqi lives have been sacrificed in Iraq for the noble purpose of providing no-bid contracts for the likes of Bechtel and Halliburton. Lives have been sacrificed to ram a neo-con type of social and economic order down the throats of Iraqis, privatization of industry,including oil, health care, education, attacks on unions, and the elimination of a social safety net (unemployment insurance, housing and food subsidies, old age penisons), whether the Iraqis want it or not. Such an economic order can only be imposed by foreign troops. Ever wonder why the US waited so long to call for elections in Iraq? As former US proconsul to Iraq, Paul Bremer put it, "privatization, then elections." This is the real reason why lives are needlessly being sacrfificed in Iraq. Democracy and freedom have nothing to do with the US invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq. Hurrah for Cindy Sheehan AND Michael Moore! Down with freedom fries, up with French fries!
Cindy Sheehan is what you get when the inmates take over the asylum.
Troll notice.
LOL
Of course, you seem to keep it busy with random thoughts of stupidity highlighted by inance scribblings.
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