Posted on 02/01/2006 10:15:30 AM PST by CGASMIA68
Edited on 02/01/2006 12:52:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
This is what the poster was orignally trying to get posted here. He obviously got off to a rough start. Sorry t1b8zs.Letter from the Joint Chiefs to Washington Post regarding this tasteless, disgusting cartoon. (PDF File - You will need Adobe Acrobat to view this file)
Update from Post #25
Use the hatchet!
Everything is fixed, moved to the news forum. Thanks everyone for your help.
It was reprehensible. I am glad the Joint Chiefs made a statement.
Thank you very much All Powerful Admin Moderator.
You got that right, I'll take small bill, unmarked. Freepmail me....
Does that mean that Bob Woodruff's head is now battle hardened (by the standards of the Washington Post)?
I wonder if they (the Washington Post) would be offended if we made jokes about wounded journalists?
[sarcasm /off]
I had posted a week or two ago that the Washington Post would do anything to endanger the US Military. I guess there was more truth than I thought in that comment...
Very sad about the Washington Post. I wonder if they get enough Cocaine these days to suit their drug habits...
Perhaps I am missing his point. Maybe he is merely taking a jab at Donald Rumsfeld. Whatever his point is, this is "the wrong cartoon at the wrong time".
Their hate to our country, our military, and our President is horrifying. These traitors are subhumans.
"Poor Taste"??!! Well that is the understatement of the day. This is disgusting and hateful beyond belief.
Yes it is. But all the same, this is just more liberal elitist MSM tripe. I'm sure George Soros is looking at this "comic" while sitting on his throne somewhere and actually laughing. All while the rest of us America loving and troop honoring folks are stuck here sitting in a state of disgust and disbelief.
Only if you wash your hands when you're done ;)
Sick bastards.
Ahhhh. This is beyond the pale. I am simply at a loss for words. This very nearly brought me to tears with rage.
This is the First Amendment. People are free to say what they like as long as it does not endanger others. But this is indicative of a total lack of decency.
Out of curiosity, I looked at the archive of his cartoons. I looked at the last 10 cartoons, and his predilection is predictable. This person (and I use the phrase so loosely to describe someone who would pen such an unthinking, hurtful, inconsiderate, malicious "cartoon") who wrote this detests the military. He hates them and everything they stand for, in contradiction to everything he stands for.
The military, in general, tries to inculcate loyalty, dedication, maturity, work ethic, respect, honor, pride, consideration and thoughtfulness. (Having been in the military, and grown up as the son of a 30 year Naval veteran who now rests in Arlington, I know that this is what the military tries to do. I doesn't always produce the desired result or level of result, but the effort is there)
The thing that drew this cartoon, protected by THE LIBERTIES THAT OUR MILITARY FIGHTS, BLEEDS AND DIES FOR, has taken this opportunity to use a horribly wounded military person as a PROP to make a petty partisan point.
A man, in a bed, with NO ARMS AND LEGS, who, at that stage, cannot feed himself, relieve himself, bathe himself, dress himself, walk, read a book on his own, change a television channel, pick up a phone, use a computer, hug his loved ones or any other number of things the rest of us, including this despicable excuse for a human being who authored this cartoon, take for granted. He has taken the liberty to PISS on the sacrifice many of our military personnel have suffered, using them as a tool in order to take a passing swipe at political policy he disagrees with.
I am so bloody, flaming mad I can barely put my words up on the screen. I am contacting the Washington Post, their parent organization (if any) and their boards of directors. This is a damnable outrage.
He is clearly taking a jab at Rumsfeld. I have no problem with that, and I am sure, neither does Rumsfeld. It goes with the territory. I am so damned angry at this I can barely type.
When I came into this forum earlier today, I could not view the cartoon, since the original poster (with the best of intentions) did not have a clear idea how to do it.
Well, I got an eyeful when I got home.
When I was 10 years old, I lived in Yokouska, Japan, my dad was the Security Officer for the base. I used to spend a lot of my time at the yacht basin, where I obsessively learned to sail.
It also happened to be right next to the heliport, where casualties were flown in from Vietnam.
I watched those olive colored tadpole shaped helicopters with the white squares and red crosses fly in and out of there all day long. One every 15 minutes or so, if my memory serves me correctly. So I would watch. The helicopter would land, all the people would run out, ducking low, grab the stretchers and, ducking, run back and load them in the ambulances.
Their loads consisisted of stretcher-borne dark green blankets with human heads poking out the end, often with tubes coming out the sides into containers and down from bottles carried high.
I watched that a lot, but I don't really think I got it. My buddies and I would play "Army", figuring out new and innovative ways to fall when we "got shot".
But I did get it, as soon as I got old enough to really think it through, and it haunts me to this day, all those young men, their lives changed, some dramatically, all for the rest of their days. I think of them often.
Then, to see a piece of CRAP like this "cartoonist" author something like that, well it just sends me off the end.
And, by the way, thanks for your service. I DO appreciate it, and there are many more like me (as I hope you know). When you ever hear the phrase "The thanks of a grateful nation..." you know why.
I think someone needs to start over with the correct link! Admin doesn't get it. After scrolling thru toooo much BS posts the topic is FINALLY addressed
I'm not sure what you are talking about. What link? Please explain.
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This appears to me that the cartoonist is using an exaggerated fictional character to make a point about Rumsfeld trivializing serious injuries. If he used a real person I would be as livid as anyone at such usuary. Let's save our anger for better uses.
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