Poor Sean Hannity

King ^ | April 22, 2003 | Charley Reese

[Beenliedto]

Poor Sean Hannity

Sean Hannity, a radio talk-show host and Fox News whiner, has a one-rut mind. Every criticism or dissent, no matter what the subject, the topic or the source, is a left-wing attack against his hero, George W. Bush.

Well, what can you expect from an immature groupie? Every time he tries to think, his face reflects the pain of the effort. But he really showed his emptiness recently when he said that criticism of the United States failing to guard the Iraqi National Museum was — you guessed it — just left-wing soreheads who are mad that President Bush's war has been so successful.

Give me a break. That museum is one of the five greatest museums on Earth. It contained treasures that are the heritage of mankind. There are 140,000 U.S. military personnel in Iraq. We've protected all the oil fields, north and south. Do you really believe we couldn't have spared two fire teams to guard the irreplaceable artifacts of the beginnings of Western civilization? Of course we could have. Somebody just goofed.

This is not a left/right, liberal/conservative issue. It's not a question of patriots versus traitors, as the morons among the neoconservative crowd try to paint every human being who refuses to click his heels and salute their guru, Richard Perle, and their emperor, George Bush. This is a cultural issue. Three great treasures — the museum, the National Library and the largest collection of Koranic writings in the world — were looted and burned. Since we had destroyed the Iraqi government, it was our responsibility to protect them.

I don't blame President Bush. I'm sure he's unaware of their existence. After all, he brags about not reading. But what would we say if the crowds who have rioted in Washington in the past had been allowed to loot and burn the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress? Do you think we would have accepted an excuse that there weren't enough cops to protect those two treasures?

One hates to disillusion the permanently adolescent among us, but this tiny sliver of life in which we are participating is a dot on a long line of human civilization. One day, we will be as forgotten as the Assyrians, and hopefully some museum will have artifacts from our brief stay on the stage of history.

There is a definitely a whiff of anti-intellectualism — so characteristic of fascist states — in the air. Beware of bully boys who worship the military and scoff at museums and libraries. Beware of people whose limited brains see everyone as either an ally or an enemy. Beware of people who can't tell the difference between patriotism and military conquest. Beware of people so stupid and ignorant that they accept anything and everything the political and the media demagogues tell them.

Thomas Jefferson, who would have been outraged by the loss of the museum and the library, said, "Those who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and never will be." Amen cubed.

I'm no longer concerned about liberals or conservatives, leftists or rightists. I just pray to God for a non-ideologue with a three-digit IQ. If we don't elevate the level of intelligence and integrity of our government, we are going to end up floating on the cesspool of history.

As for anyone being disappointed that the war was conducted rapidly and successfully, that's bull. I was opposed to the war, but I'm damned glad it was quick and there were as few casualties as there have been. Every anti-war person I know of or have read feels the same way. You have to be a really sick puppy to imagine that anyone would want to see Americans die just because they disagree with the policy that put them in harm's way. Let me spell it out for the mentally impaired: People are anti-war because they do not wish to see anyone die — our soldiers, their soldiers, our civilians or their civilians. Anti-war is pro-life.

© 2003 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

[Miss Marple]

You know, you are the only person who says they have seen that soldier standing by while the looting occurred. Are you sure it was the museum? Were there any other soldiers there, or just the one? Was there enemy fire occurring? Was the soldier under orders to avoid firing on Iraqi civilians? Who are the reporters that say they tried to get the military to intervene....those truth-tellers from CNN?

It is a shame the artifacts are missing. I think it most likely that this was an inside job, and twenty tanks around that museum wouldn't have helped...because the most valuable stuff had already been removed before the Americans got there.

When the entire truth of the Baghdad Museum theft comes out, I fully expect you to get on this forum and apologize to the US military.

[Puppage]

Not as many as protecting the Ministry of Oil building apparently.

I guess your intelligence people know more than than President Bush's? Do you know what strategic significance the Oil Ministry Bldg. holds? Do you know what's INSIDE? What their protecting?

No, of course you don't, yet you bring it up as if it's an empty building being protected for nothing.

Jump to conclusions much?

[Lancey Howard]

Along the same lines, anyday now we can expect the Naderites to gravely announce that some species of intestinal parasite native to Iraq has been pushed to the brink of extinction by brutal and indiscriminate coalition military forces.

LOFL, guaranteed, the "greens" will have plenty of whining to do about the "environmental impact" of the war effort even thought they had squat to say about the oil fields being set on fire by Sodom Hussein.

[wku man]

"Do you really believe we couldn't have spared two fire teams to guard the irreplaceable artifacts of the beginnings of Western civilization?"

Two fire teams = six men. Hardly enough to cover an entire building, but enough to make a difference in a firefight elsewhere, when US lives are on the line. Reese just proved again that he's a Commielib moron who knows nothing about the military other than the latest buzzwords he heard on CNN. Why he still has an audience is beyond me.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Kwilliams]

Rumour and Fact at Baghdad Museum

[Just mythoughts]

"visceral hatred"

This post and responses are a wee bit curious, considering how many in the world actually had access to this museum, or even knew it existed.

Amazing that plunders and looters with keys to a place, gets lost in the whole picture.

So little attention paid to LBJ and Clintons when they plundered and looted the museums of our own history.

Guess it depends on age of the loot that gets ones ire up.

This author managed to succeed in mudding the waters, by in his view, taking on a response on a particular day by Hannity, which in fact did bring out the soreheads who had no words of condemnation for our previous professional looters of our very own history.

How many Americans even knew that there was a museum there that laid out the history of "mankind"? There have been far older discoveries of artifacts found in China.

There hasn't even been an accounting of what was taken, what is lost and all the focus is on "the military" not protecting artifacts that most people didn't even know existed.

These artifacts didn't belong to us or even a part of our nation except a couple of paragraphs in history books.

The biggest difference in Liberals/socialist and conservatives is that conservatives eat their own, and can't wait for the opportunity for a liberal to give them fresh meat.

Germany has in its Berlin Pergamon Museum the old restored Ishtar Gate of Babylon, Iraq asked Germany to get it back a year ago May. They also have a restored cuneiform tablet stating the builder of the gate was Nebuchadnezzar. This museum has a listing of the months of the Babylonian calendar. Who knows what else is stashed around the world in private hands and basements of museums.

This tid bit is left out by the soreheads proclaiming all is lost.

[ez]

Charlie Reese use to be an enjoyable read until he let his firing from the Orlando Sentinel fill his heart with bitterness. Now he is little more than a male Mo Dowd, complaining about everything while offering nothing constuctive.

This article is one big ad hominem attack against the intelligence of everyone else but Charley. The President is stupid, the neo-cons are stupid, the military goofed because they're stupid, and everyone who follows them are stupid.

I believe CR would be surprised to find that George W. Bush's IQ was several notches higher than his own.

[Romulus]

One day, we will be as forgotten as the Assyrians, and hopefully some museum will have artifacts from our brief stay on the stage of history.

Plastic lasts a long time.

[Stultis]

Now just remember that a few short months ago, everyone on Free republic loved this guy.

So a few short months ago you were smoking crack? Congradulations, and I hope you stay off the stuff!

Seriously, I actually agreed with Charlie for the first couple paragraphs but then, not wanting to spoil that unique and unusual experience, I stopped reading. Knowing Charlie, I'm certain the commity couldn't have survived much more ink, even in a very short op-ed.

[Romulus]

Now just remember that a few short months ago, everyone on Free republic loved this guy.

Memory is for bed-wetting liberals. Just ask Sean Hannity.

[Imal]

I think the museum being robbed is a bummer, but that's not what jumps out at me from the article.

What intrigues me about this article is that I can mentally replace the name "Charley Reese" with "Gary Trudeau", "Barbra Streisand", "Michael Moore", "Susan Sarandon" or "Jeanine Garafolo", and find it perfectly credible that any of them may just as well have written it.

Great minds think alike, I guess. :^P

[Puppage]

We will NEVER be able to cover all the bases

ABSOLUTELY! Like with the WMD....no matter HOW much/many we find (and we will) it will NEVER be enough for the left.

They're screaming now..."where are the WMD?"

For Gods sake...it's been a MONTH!It takes 10 weeks to find an American Idol!!

[newcats]

I guess your intelligence people know more than than President Bush's? Do you know what strategic significance the Oil Ministry Bldg. holds? Do you know what's INSIDE? What their protecting?
No, of course you don't, yet you bring it up as if it's an empty building being protected for nothing.

Never said they did nor implied it was empty. Look who is jumping to conclusion now.
And I think anyone woth any brains can see where the priorities are. They are protecting their pocketbook.
Guess to some people (not YOU of course) $$ is more important than thousands of years of art or culture or history.

[Dr. Luv]

Because "It contained treasures that are the heritage of mankind". Surely we coulf have spared a few guys to protect the heritage of mankind?

[cardinal4]

I would imagine that the US military had enough on their plate securing the future of the Iraqi people. The past should have been protected by the Iraqi people themselves.

Good point. But the media has to find something negative to focus on, dont they? Everything has gone well to date so there has been nothing negative to report, nothing to smear the Administration with. The first sign of trouble, the Jennings-Rather wannabes are all over it..

[GunRunner]

Screw you Charley Reese, you anti-Semitic, lying, suicide-bomber supporting punk. Stay home and shut up.

One day, we will be as forgotten as the Assyrians

Don't confuse America with yourself, jerk. You're the forgotten one.

Drink an Ensure and take a nap, nobody cares what you think.

[dalebert]

I thought his hero was Reagan?

[bmwcyle]

I still think Sean is great and who cares about a bunch of old clay pots from a greedy failed culture left to the sands of time. There is a reported story that they looted this stuff and the plan was in place before we arrived. I grow tired of picking at the weak points of successful army that had no control over the looting. Sean is just sick of the focus on items we would have changed if we could. The milk is spilled and the sun will come up tomorrow if we never heard of the old Iraq again. I think we sould focus on its future. I think these people could be greater then their past. Sean wishes and hopes for that future also. You can stuff your negitive opinion. The life of the children they found taken from their parents was more important than any material item no matter how old it is.

[Miss Marple]

Once again, the following facts need to be laid out:

1. The museum announced publicly that they had procedures to protect the artifacts in time of war, which included moving the items to a secure location. If I were Centcom I would have assumed they did just that.

2. The Marines were taking fire from the building at the time the looting started.

3. A great mamny of the artifacts were removed from underground vaults, which required a KEY to open. It is unclear if those vaults were opened before or during the looting, but it definitely indicates inside help with the removal of the artifacts.

3. Numerous articles in archaeological publications have discussed the fact that Saddam had removed many items prior to the war and replaced them with copies.

4. The rules of engagement included not firing on civilians.

5. Over 40 items were seized at the Jordanian border from JOURNALISTS.

6. In no other conflict has the native citizenry looted their own museums.

7. This is a LARGE complex and would have required more than a couple of soldiers with rifles to defend it.

8. For those who think that artifacts are more precious than human life, I will keep your names in mind when the artifacts are offered in trade for American lives by some radical Islamacist.