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Hold Your Tears ... Mark Steyn
The Spectator ^
| 18 August 2005
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 08/18/2005 7:52:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Steyn Ping!
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:52:31 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Pokey78
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:53:11 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Mrs Sheehan is now very anti-war It's not often I have to correct Steyn, but Sheehan has always been very "anti-war" (or at least, anti-Bush and by extension anti-any war under Bush's watch); it's just that she is now willing to exploit her son's name to further her cause rather than respect his wishes.
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:57:46 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(WARNING: If you're not sure whether or not it's sarcasm, it probably is.)
To: ecurbh
it woke up motion-picture personality Viggo Mortensen, who flew to Crawford on a pilgrimage to Mrs SheehanOh, Myrtle, what a ponce.
Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:58:27 AM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
marking for later, leisurely read...
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:59:13 AM PDT
by
eureka!
(Hey Lefties: Only 3 and 1/2 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
08/18/2005 7:59:16 AM PDT
by
Alexander Rubin
(Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
To: Rummyfan
Population 690, man I'm itchin to watch Hee-Haw re-runs....lol
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:02:26 AM PDT
by
SaintDismas
(Jest becuz you put yer boots in the oven, don't make it bread)
To: Borax Queen; sweetliberty
ping!
The problem for the Democratic party is that the Cindys are now the loudest voice: Michael Moore, Howard Dean, moveon.org, and Air America, the flailing liberal radio network distracting attention from its own financial scandals by flying down its afternoon host Randi Rhodes to do her show live from Camp Casey. The last time I heard Miss Rhodes she was urging soldiers called up for Iraq to refuse to go i.e., to desert and entertaining theories that 9/11 was Bushs Reichstag fire. On unwatched Sunday talk shows you can still stumble across the occasional sane responsible Dem. But, in the absence of any serious intellectual attempt to confront their long-term decline, all the energy on the Left is with the fringe.
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:04:28 AM PDT
by
nicmarlo
To: Rummyfan
On FNS one of the commentators also said, "This Cindy story is bad for the DomocRATS. It makes the case "Weak on Defense" and it won't stop with the end of summer it will last till the next election."
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:07:45 AM PDT
by
q_an_a
To: Rummyfan
A most brilliant summary of the lunacy that is the Cindy Sheehan protest. At least radical bait such as hers draws out the wing nuts en masse for all to identify.
The more sane and thoughtful among us need to voice our support for honorable and heroic troops serving the highest of ideals, to give the priceless gifts of life and liberty at the risk, and sometimes cost, of their very lives.
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:07:46 AM PDT
by
TChris
("You tweachewous miscweant!" - Elmer Fudd)
To: Rummyfan
Ever since Americas all-adult, all-volunteer army went into Iraq, the anti-war crowd have made a sustained effort to characterise them as children. If a 13-year-old wants to have an abortion, thats her decision and her parents shouldnt get a look-in. If a 21-year-old wants to drop to the Oval Office shagpile and chow down on Bill Clinton, shes a grown woman and free to do what she wants. But, if a 22- or 25- or 37-year old is serving his country overseas, hes a wee child who isnt really old enough to know what hes doing.I could not have expressed this sentiment better. The leftists' condescension toward our military members is infuriating.
To: Rummyfan
Ever since Americas all-adult, all-volunteer army went into Iraq, the anti-war crowd have made a sustained effort to characterise them as children. If a 13-year-old wants to have an abortion, thats her decision and her parents shouldnt get a look-in. If a 21-year-old wants to drop to the Oval Office shagpile and chow down on Bill Clinton, shes a grown woman and free to do what she wants. But, if a 22- or 25- or 37-year old is serving his country overseas, hes a wee child who isnt really old enough to know what hes doing.I thought that one deserved repeating.
To: Rummyfan
Christine LahtiViggo Mortensen
Add two more names to the list of people I will never pay to see in a movie theater or watch on TV.
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:11:37 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(IF YOU'RE NOT CATCHING FLAK, YOU'RE NOT OVER THE TARGET...)
To: Rummyfan
Still, shes a mother. And, if youre as heavily invested as Ms Dowd in the notion that those killed in Iraq are children, then Mrs Sheehans status as grieving matriarch is a bonanza. I agree with Mrs Ryan: theyre not children in Iraq; theyre thinking adults who made a decision to join the Armed Forces and defend our country. Whenever Im on a radio show these days, someone calls in and demands to know whether my children are in Iraq. Well, not right now. They range in age from five to nine, and though thats plenty old enough to sign up for the jihad and toddle into an Israeli pizza parlour wearing a suicide-bomb, in most advanced societies armed forces they prefer to use grown-ups. That seems to be difficult for the Left to grasp. Ever since Americas all-adult, all-volunteer army went into Iraq, the anti-war crowd have made a sustained effort to characterise them as children. If a 13-year-old wants to have an abortion, thats her decision and her parents shouldnt get a look-in. If a 21-year-old wants to drop to the Oval Office shagpile and chow down on Bill Clinton, shes a grown woman and free to do what she wants. But, if a 22- or 25- or 37-year old is serving his country overseas, hes a wee child who isnt really old enough to know what hes doing. I get many emails from soldiers in Iraq, and they sound a lot more grown-up than most Ivy League professors and certainly than Maureen Dowd, who writes as if shes auditioning for a minor supporting role in Sex and the City. The infantilisation of the military promoted by the Left is deeply insulting to Americas warriors but it suits the anti-war crowds purposes. It enables them to drone ceaselessly that of course they support our troops, because they want to stop these poor confused moppets from being exploited by the Bush war machine. Simply magnificent!
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:13:29 AM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: Rummyfan
If a 13-year-old wants to have an abortion, thats her decision and her parents shouldnt get a look-in. If a 21-year-old wants to drop to the Oval Office shagpile and chow down on Bill Clinton, shes a grown woman and free to do what she wants. But, if a 22- or 25- or 37-year old is serving his country overseas, hes a wee child who isnt really old enough to know what hes doing. Ah, Steyn shines again....
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:13:40 AM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: nicmarlo
I'm delighted that Cindy has joined the likes of the left lunatic fringe. The Democratic party is in meltdown.
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:14:42 AM PDT
by
sarasota
To: Rummyfan
What a great column! Thanks for posting it.
Steyn is correct when he says our soldiers are not the fictitious helpless children that Cindy describes.
Cindy doesn't even seem to care about real small children, those in Iraq.
If Cindy saw an insurgent who was about to kill children with a bomb, and Cindy saw that a soldier had the insurgent in his gunsights, would she tell the soldier to walk away or let the soldier shoot the bomber?
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:15:26 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Cindy doesn't want our soldiers to shoot insurgent bombers who are murdering small Iraqi children.)
To: Rummyfan
Spot on, as he usually is.
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:15:43 AM PDT
by
kalee
To: The Phantom FReeper
Steyn hits one out of the park yet again.
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posted on
08/18/2005 8:16:24 AM PDT
by
technochick99
(firearm of choice: Sig Sauer....)
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