A Congress of Captain Queegs

ChronWatch ^ | November 24, 2006 | Raymond Kraft

[KeyLargo]

"Security: Democrats want to withdraw like a turtle from Iraq into the shell of Fortress America,.."

[3AngelaD]

"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic.."

[redlegplanner]

IMHO, one of the best parts of the film is the lawyer's speech at the end where he castigates the celebrants for their shirking of duty during peacetime.

[Neidermeyer]

Captain Queeg: This is the captain speaking. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they're very much mistaken. Since you've taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?

[KeyLargo]

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** If you haven't read the book, or seen the movie in the last few years, it's worth a trip to the bookstore or the movie store to refresh your memory. ***

No thanks. We have lived it. We had a plant manager who fit this profile perfectly.

When he died we hoped the family would bury him here so we wouldn't have to charter a bus to go p!$$ on his grave.

[B.O. Plenty]

General Clark, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and most of the Democrats who are about to take over Congress in January...and the ignorant political correctness that will intensify from them....

WILL EVENTUALLY GET US ALL KILLED

....We, the people...(all who are willing)...are most likely going to have to get directly involved in this "war"...I don't know what this involvement would look like, but it will have to be direct, decisive and final.

[Wolfstar]

General Clark, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and most of the Democrats who are about to take over Congress in January seem to have wilfully failed and refused to face this unpleasant reality.

Not quite right. The Congressional Democrats are not Captain Queegs, but Quislings. These people and their fellow travellers in big media, academia, Hollywood and elsewhere want America's defeat. They believe the United States is all that's wrong with the world -- all that stands between them and a Marxist utopia. They believe that if America is defeated, and they achieve world government through the UN and/or Euro Union-style regional mega governments, that there will be no more war -- and, of course, they will have all the centralized power to run the world.

So for now they make common cause with the Islamofacists, thinking -- falsely -- that when America is defeated the Islamofacists will no longer feel the need to be warlike. In reality, the Islamofacists have their number. To the Islamofacists, the American and European Left are useful idiots who will be the first swept aside if the Jihadists win.

The recent election exposed another truth, that the American right is as much a bunch of Quislings as the American left.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Hope you have a reliable weapon and a good supply of ammunition

[USNBandit]

Well there is at least one real Captain Queeg in the new Congress, or should I say Admiral Queeg.

Well known by those in the Navy, but not voters in PA, VADM Sestak is an unmitigated @$$hole of the first order. When the current CNO took his post he fired Setstak within the first 24 hours of being on the job. When you are relieved for "command climate" at that level that means you are the number one SOB in the Navy and unfit for anything.

[Vroomfondel]

There is but one true Queeg

[Lancey Howard]

Wow. This is not a very cheerful column.

One question - - this passage from the Koran:

"He it is who has sent His Apostle with the Guidance and a religion of the truth, that He may make it (Islam) victorious over every other religion . . .'' "

Is this referring to the pedophile, Muhammed? Anybody know?

[null and void]

And me without my Red Dwarf ping list

[reformed_democrat]

Great article.
Good find -- thanks for posting.

[M Kehoe]

Good post, although at first, I thought it was about John McCain.

5.56mm

[null and void]

ping

[headsonpikes]

Good post, although at first, I thought it was about John McCain.

Different movie - "Manchurian Candidate".

[goldstategop]

There is NO Fortress America. 9/11 exploded that age old isolationist fantasy forever. The Democrats apart from being ready to open a Congress Of Captain Queegs, are still the Party Of 9/10. Even that would be too kind as their leftist leadership still appears to be stuck in Vietnam.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Nailbiter]

ping

[goldstategop]

The point is Europe is dying from the disease called socialism and Russia is also on its deathbed. In the next 40 years we may see emergent Muslim powers with nuclear weapons. Burying our heads in the sand is not going to contribute to our survival.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus