WaPo Aids Leftist Anti-Bush Activist's Abuse of Walter Reed Wounded

Saturday, September 1, 2007 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

In a frontpage article in the Outlook section of Sunday's Washington Post entitled "Drinking. Brawling. Hurting.", a leftist anti-Bush Yale anthropologist graduate, Sarah Stillman, paints a picture of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center abusing alcohol at Washington, D.C. area nightclubs to indict the Bush administration and the war on terror.

Readers would not know Stillman is a Bush-hating leftist by reading The Post's description of her: Sarah Stillman, a 2006 Yale graduate, is a Marshall Scholar writing a doctoral thesis on gender, violence and the media.

However, her 2005 Huffington Post profile describers her thusly: Sarah Stillman is a senior at Yale University, where she is earning her simultaneous Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Anthropology. An active participant in the global justice movement, she has worked abroad with grassroots anti-sweatshop organizers in Shenzhen, China (www.cwwn.org), returned refugees in rural Guatemala (www.mesaglobal.org), and unionizing sex workers in Bangkok, Thailand.

Further reading of Stillman's Huffington Post blog reveals her 2005 trip to Venezuala. She wrote about that trip with contemptuous condescension for President Bush in nearly every paragraph:

I arrived home from a week in Caracas, Venezuela just in time to catch the latest episode of the Manifest Destiny Variety Show, starring George “The Liberator” Bush and his much-anticipated plans for renewal in Iraq. And let me tell you, it was a mammoth relief to sit down in my air-conditioned TV room at 8 pm on Tuesday and discover that my Commander-in-Chief hasn't missed a beat in the War on Terror. Because for a second there, the men and women I met during my time in Caracas came pretty close to convincing me otherwise.

.....But that wasn't the only travel-induced wrinkle that Bush Jr.'s speech ironed out for me. The people of Venezuela also had me raising an eyebrow when I sat down to watch their state-run news program, on which I witnessed--FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ BEGAN--a televised sequence of Iraqi victims: a young girl whose face had been bombed into a shiny pink goop; an older man whose shrapnel-filled guts lined the street. What's more, I finally saw the corpses of U.S. troops, who have thus far appeared to me only in the occasional form of yearbook photos sandwiched between staged statue-topplings and “Mission Accomplished” Kodak moments. It was enough to make me wonder: as quotidian as charred flesh and crushed skulls have become in Iraq, why do I have to travel more than 2,000 miles to view this devastating footage?

....Hence, my relief when Bush Jr. was finally able to give my exclamation-weary eyebrows a break on Tuesday night, in his first presidential address to the nation since who-remembers-when. Assuaging my doubts about the efficiency (not to mention integrity) of pouring billions of dollars into the Iraqi occupation, he pointed out that "we're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East." Rectifying my misperception that the U.S. troops are blindly bombing the bejesus out of the Iraqi people, he informed me that we are, in fact, “laying the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.” Quelling my concerns about the impunity he has gifted to the self-confessed bomber Luis Posada Carriles, he reminded me who the REAL terrorists are (you know, those Arabs around every corner who hate freedom, tolerance, little old ladies, chocolate sprinkles, me, you, etc.).

Gone is the momentary but terrible terror of doubting the War on Terror. Of course, if I lived in a country like Venezuela, I might have to entertain the possibility that the respite wouldn't last more than a precious hour or two; that my fellow citizens would be out marching in the streets against such Orwellian inversions and empty cheerleading; that the military men and women who are returning home from Iraq would cry out for their lost limbs and their forfeited sanity; that the uncensored newsreels of what's REALLY happening over there might yank the tidy ribbon off of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

But here in America, I needn't worry about such things. And so, when I finally get around to unpacking my suitcase this afternoon, I promise to pause for a moment as I slip my U.S. passport back into my desk drawer, tossing up a “Thank-you-Jesus” that I'm an heiress of the liberty-lovin', darkeness-dispellin' Lucky Sperm Club.

Stillman writes in The Post that she is "a 23-year-old occasional volunteer at Walter Reed and the girlfriend of a soldier serving in Iraq..."

The theme of her article in The Post is that the war is creating a generation of traumatized soldiers who are getting drunk and getting in fights because the evil Bush administration ruined their lives forever.

Bear in mind, Stillman has a masters degreee in anthropology--she studies humanity.

Stillman tries to make a case for a nationwide epidemic of whacked-out Iraq veterans getting drunk and getting in fights or killing themselves.

So what does Stillman do about it besides writing a hit piece in The Post? She takes soldiers with traumatic brain injuries in her car to D.C. area bars so they can get drunk so she can write about them in The Post:

On a recent night, I loaded up the car with TBI-afflicted friends, including Pete (who, for the record, is funny and smart and kind), and drove to a happy-go-lucky bar in Adams Morgan in the District, where the drinks come with cheerful pink umbrellas.

[enough_idiocy]

I believe this is her (it always help me to see who these people are):

http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/stillman_200.jpg

[rocksblues]

Follow this witch carefully, she may just be the next Hillary.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

Or Robert will be the next writer for the New Republic...

Someone needs to get this info to the powers to be at Walter Reed and ban her sorry ass (and her “glorius armpit hair”)

[Rome2000]

The "New York Times" and "Washington Post" are not monolithic faceless alien oracles.

They are run by the the likes of the leftist homosexual on the left, ARTHUR SULZBERGER JR, and the socialist crook on the right, DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post.

Every day these 2 enemies of the state unleash a horde of minor league propagandists on the American psyche in a blatant attempt to topple any GOP government that is elected by the American people.

They do not care if innocent civilians or soldiers die as a result and national security be damned.

2007 is the year they will be stopped.

They will no longer be able to hide unde a cloak of annonymity.

They will be exposed and their names equated with treacherous acts.

They and their komrades will be surveilled and brought up on charges.

OFFICERS

Chairman Emeritus: Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger, age 71, $1,397,200 pay (prior to title change)

Chairman; Publisher, The New York Times: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., age 46, $960,200 pay (prior to promotion)

VC and SVP: Michael Golden, age 48

President and CEO: Russell T. Lewis, age 50, $882,235 pay (prior to promotion)

SVP Operations and Acting CFO: John M. O'Brien, age 54

SVP and Deputy COO: David L. Gorham, $796,000 pay

[dragonblustar]

: Sarah Stillman

Not very smart of the dimwit. She just swat a hornets nest.

[dragonblustar]

She's a bit long in the face.

[elcid1970]

Geez, that lefty’s face is as ugly as the words that come out of it!

As in,

Stop an eight-day clock

Make a freight train take a dirt road

Make cadavers run away screaming

Etc.

;^)

[sauropod]

She's probably a cultural anthropologist. I had the misfortune to take such a course during my college career.

[VOA]

bump

[Albion Wilde]

Brilliant analogy.

By the way, the Hildabeast photo on the left draws a roadmap to which area of the anatomy the left thinks with.

[Albion Wilde]

...and she unionized sex workers?!?!?

The left used to scream when Christian evangelists used the scriptures to convince prostitutes to leave that life, accept Christians' help in halfway houses and start a clean life. The left's answer is to "support" them in their prostitution by soaking the taxpayer to get them condoms and healthcare benefits so they can ply their degraded trade a little longer before being killed by a pimp or a trick. Bad Christians! Trying to shove their theology down people's throats!

Oh, wait...

[CDB]

Sarah Stillman, this generation’s “Tokyo Rose/Lord Haw Haw.”

[KantianBurke]

To say that those troops coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan are just fine and honky dory is just as immoral as the story concocted by this “reporter.” They need help and attempts to gloss over that fact screams of petty partisanship and sleaze.

[freema]

You mean I’ve been giving it away all these years, and if I’d only hooked up with Sarah, I could have a pension and health care? Well, dang, why didn’t hillbilly think of this, there would be no unemployment?

[Col Freeper]

I’ve got a sinking feeling that her courageous boyfriend Robert is soon going to be having second thoughts on how their relationship began. Was she interested in him or...?

I've got the distinct feeling that her boyfriend, and all of the others in her story are made up characters.

I think we might see another exposure of lies coming to light soon.

That's the beauty of the Internet, and the bane of the leftists in the Media Mafia (MM). Shine the light of truth on the leftist cockroaches, and watch them scatter wildly.

And the best part of all?

Slowly but surely, more and more of the cockroaches get eliminated by being stepped on or sprayed with bugkiller (for the O'Reilly staff members: read the following slooooowly and carefully ... that means they loose their jobs and opportunity to influence public opinion).

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

I could find a use for the Washington Post, but my Mom’s cat deserves real kitty litter, IMO.

[kcvl]

Sarah Stillman, who is a tad peeved at the world:

I’m already feeling pretty annoyed that the cheapest way I can get to Leon, Mexico for a conference on feminist resistance to U.S. imperialism and corporate globalization is by flying through RONALD REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT AND GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT. But this is further compounded by the realization that my own speechlessness about Reagan’s unforgivable role in Central America reflects a much larger, collective inability of the left to combat national amnesia about the Great Communicator’s true legacy. Even more abstractly, it reminds me of our failure to hold U.S. imperial presidencies accountable for the terror they’ve incited and continue to incite — from the fincas of El Salvador to the trenches of Iraq to the militarized ghettoes here at home….

And so, I’m writing you not only for the sake of catharsis, but also to pledge that I won’t stop searching for the right words to address all future Reagan-lionizing golfer ladies until I can fly from Delores Huerta National Airport to Emma Goldman Internationalism Airport, where passports will be optional and “Ronald Reagan” will be nothing more than a brand of sanitary napkin disposal bins.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hopefully, she grows up and stops watching the Venezuela Propaganda Channel before she goes and does something really stupid (like a certain actress did 35 years ago).

[kcvl]

“I remember reading in high school that Yale had been voted by Mother Jones magazine as the number one activist campus,” Sarah recalls. “It seemed like a bastion of both internal resources and also the resources that students bring through their energy and being involved.”

Energy and social involvement run in Stillman blood. The daughter of Don Stillman, president of the international nonprofit group Labor Rights Now, Sarah grew up with a drive to enact change. At the age of 16, she put that drive into action by creating a literary alternative to glossy, celebrity-filled teen magazines.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Some people just don’t deserve Daddy’s money for college. If they had to work their way through (if that’s even possible today), they’d be a lot less Screwy Squirrel. JMO.