No Participation - Charlie Reese: Anti-American Poison!

Focus ^ | 9 april 2003

[js1138]

Only in Hollywood movies does the military disobey civilian control. And now we have a clear distinction between control by democrats and Republicans. the voters will decide between the two next fall.

[astounded]

I am curious as to who Charlie Reese is, and what is or was his military experience. Is he real or just a leftist blowhard? This sounds a lot like other media and Hollywood drivel.

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[Mr. Thorne]

He's more of the "I'm so far right, I'm left" category.

[m1911]

"The war in Iraq is like all the wars since 1945. The burden is being borne entirely by members of the military and their families."

For that matter, like all wars after 1812. Ernie Pyle wrote a great deal about how disconnected the home front was from the real war when he came back from the fighting in North Africa.

[bigfootbob]

"Today we have a large standing Army of paid professionals whose profession is killing whomever they are ordered to kill."

And the problem is?

I've read some outstanding columns by this guy in the past, he must have had a lobotomy or stroke.

[Vindibudd]

Charlie Reese is part of the neo-Nazi Pat Buchanan I Hate The Jews "conservative" crowd. He is formerly a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel.

[thoughtomator]

This the same guy who wrote for the Orlando Sentinel not long ago?

[bigfootbob]

"This the same guy who wrote for the Orlando Sentinel not long ago?"

Yes

[fishtank]

Is he still in the Conservative Chronicle?

I cancelled my subscription with them because of the Jew-hater Reese.

Too many conservatives have inhaled this anti-semitic narcotic from Reese's bongpipe.

[moneyrunner]

The only time I would be afraid of a military coup is if Liberals made up the military. They hate the average American enough to kill them for their own good.

Luckily, Liberals loathe the military, so the Republic is safe … for now.

[Guenevere]

#3..I am curious as to who Charlie Reese is....

He's....a nobody, a 'has been'....an overindulged, spoiled 'use to be' columnist for the Orlando Sentinel.

Years ago, he wrote well......I guess perception of power can & does corrupt, because now he's just a blow-hard angry old man, who thinks he's somewhat important.

The importance lies in his own corrupted mind.

I use to read him faithfully.........after a number of years, became aware of an abrupt change in his thinking.....

..too bad, he use to have a clear perception of the world as he knew it.

Now I can't stand to see his smirky fact the rare times he's on TV.

[Hildy]

Reese's blind hatred of Israel and all things Jewish has taken over most everything else in his world. It was always thought that he was on the Arab payroll, as were many other American Journalists.

[steplock]

In ONE paragraph, reese called the military personnel disloyal ("turn against the citizens"); Marines are murderers ("Would you fire on American civilians? Yes") and lumped it all into Bill CLinton's Reno Wars against Americans - trying to re-write history to blame the current administration for clinto fiascos --- just like now, if you ask a person who started the Vietnam war? - they will MOST LIKELY answer NIXON. Try it!

charlie reese not only re-told the FALSE story about the Marine poll, but he also CHANGED THE QUESTION!!!! The original one had NOTHING to do with Gun Control - What is this? an attempt to blame the current administration and other sane Pro-American conservatives for the anti-second Amendment legislation that the socialists have been passing.

MORE RE-WRITES?

Charlie Reese can KISS MY A**!

[bigfootbob]

"Charlie Reese can KISS MY A**!"

Mine too!

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Yes, I, too, used to read Charley Reese's columns- especially when he went after Clinton, he was very good. But he is a Libertarian (although his military experience is real) and he tends to forget a few things in his post-retirement screeds.

One of these "things" is that the "mercenary soldiers" he is describing are Americans, and not only that, but some of our best young citizens. Not a gang of bloodthirsty killers, or a Foreign Legion that will do ANYTHING it is caommanded to do (look up the FFL record in Algeria- I don't recommend looking at many of the pictures of their victims).

Any Army can be abused and misued- as I think the Army was by Clinton. It makes no real difference if the soldiers are conscripts or volunteers. "Scuttlebutt" about a military coup was just that- morose griping by an Officer Corps that had been betrayed. But I was in a Ranger Battalion around then, and there is no way on God's green Earth that we would have accepted any order to overthrow civilian authority. These conspiracies exist in the minds of folks on the lunatic fringe. Also, I might point out that Rep. Rangel is not serious about resuming the draft (or UMT, either)- he just wants to generate more war protests by raising this dire possibility. A typical Commie-Democrat move.

[bigfootbob]

well said

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Thank you. I didn't even go into his almost delusional anti-Semitism. He is so pro-Palestinian that I stopped reading his columns after 911- I was getting way too mad. I am convinced that if every Jew in Israel were to be massacred tomorrow, he would go out and celebrate. (Joseph Sobran is very similar).

[bigfootbob]

"Joseph Sobran is very similar"

I quit reading Sobran after 911 also! Great minds think alike. Ha-ha