I ran across this a couple of days ago
Not too sure how or where to Post this so perhaps someone could do it for me?
Thereafter, the Daytona News need to be taken to task and help accountable for having a columnist of his ilk.
Although a search of this paper’s article did not show this particular article as appearing in print or on their site, they should nevertheless be made aware (in the event they are not already) of this slimeball’s lack of character and his bias toward the Military.
Daytona Beach News-Journal Online -- Opinion
"Award winning writer Pierre Tristam's thoughts appear every Tuesday."
http://www.news-journalonline.com/
THE ARTICLE:
May 26, 2006
My Lai, Iraq
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MURDERERS
By PIERRE TRISTAM
Of course the first line of defense, for those craven enough to defend atrocities just because Americans commit them, is to say that Iraqis do worse. And in fact the U.S. military, after lying about the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last year, then lying about the number of Iraqis killed, then covering up the massacre until a Time magazine article made it impossible to keep lying, attempted that very line of defense: As Time reported in March, "Lieut. Colonel Michelle Martin-Hing, spokeswoman for the Multi-National Force-Iraq, told Time the involvement of [military investigators] does not mean that a crime occurred. And she says the fault for the civilian deaths lies squarely with the insurgents, who "placed noncombatants in the line of fire as the M! arines responded to defend themselves.'" All lies, of course. There were no insurgents hiding among civilians. There w as no crossfire. The Marines weren't defending themselves. They were out on a rampage, murdering at point-blank leisure, logding bullets in the heads of women and children, My Lai-style. (AN EXCERPT)
http://www.counterpunch.org/tristam05262006.html
HIS BIO:
Pierre Tristam www.pierretristam.com
· Occupation: Hack writer (journalist)
· Location: United States
About Me
I'm an editorial writer and columnist at the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida. The name notwithstanding, I'm not French except by education. I'm Arab by ethnicity (ex-Lebanese, to be precise), Jewish by intellect, Catholic by failed conviction, liberal by nature, and above all (and most gratefully, current presidency excepted), American by choice and nationality.... “Il n’y a rien de si dangereux qu’un homme indépendent comme moi, qui aime à rire et qui hait les sots.” [Voltaire]
http://www.blogger.com/profile/8713012
It's interesting how this "hack" keeps asserting that the US government is "lying" but offeres no facts of his own...just merely thinks because he "thinks" something...it must be true.
This is idicative of the delusional left...and their willingness to slander the current administration and this nations military at all costs.
Thanks for outing this guy...hopefully, in the fullness of time...he will be dealt with appropriately.
"...I'm an editorial writer and columnistidiot liberal military-hating, anti-American Marxist whose pathetic community college liberal arts education is the most outstanding and accomplished educational background at the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida, which is a community paper we have to give away by the bundleful because people wouldn't accept it from drunks and drug addicts in Cambridge, MA for a single nickel. The name notwithstanding, I'm not French except by education which goes a long way towards explaining my cheese eating surrender-monkey mentality. I'm Arab by ethnicity (ex-Lebanese, to be precise)but that has absolutely NOTHING to do with my slanderous, ignorant villification of men who are putting their lives on the line to protect my right to insult them liberally, Jewish by intellect , (and if Jewish people choke on their food when they hear me say that, I never notice), Catholic by failed conviction (even though the only aspect of that religion I explored was moslesting little boys, and discovered that the small segment of Catholic priests who molest children are pikers compared to Mohammed) , liberal by nature which again, explains my card carrying membership in "The New Castrati", as Rush Limbaugh accurately calls us , and above all (and most gratefully, current presidency excepted), American by choice and nationality, even though I pine for the day other military hating marxist liberals like me can get our hands on the reins of power..."