Posted on 04/22/2003 4:54:43 AM PDT by 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.
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My husband, my mother and I love Mark Levin! His occasional "crank calls" on the air to Sean are just the tip of the iceberg of Levin's wit. The Great One has his own radio show on WABC (in the NYC area) Sundays, noon-2PM. We've been lucky to hear it a few times, usually while driving. Some of his uninterrupted diatribes - and interactions with ultra-liberal callers from NYC - have been SO funny, we've nearly driven off the road, we were laughing so hard!
Not sure what "red meat eating" means... sounds like something an anointed one would say. Ditto on "gravitas".
And, just how many US lives are YOU willing to lose the protect those "pots"?
That is not the point, I agree that of course human lives are more important, but to make that statement, "so we broke a few clay pots," shows just plain ignorance on Hanitty's part.
BTW, that is not the only ignorant statement he has made. And to think I used to really admire this guy. I haven't for a long time now.
And, if THAT happened ALL the news outlets would all of a sudden label the looters, INNOCENT CIVILIANS.
Don't think for a second, that i would happen JUST like that.
Madam, if we can protect oil wells, we can protect antiquities.
I don't think we went into Iraq to replace one form of barbarism with another.
How many antiquities can feed a hungry population? I submit to you your priorities are wrong. Why are these "antiquities" worth the life of an American solider when the people of Iraq don't value them? The antiquities were simply not worth defending. Not at that price, not with that attitude with the indiginous population. The Japanese, the Germans never looted their museums after WWII. If you valued them so much, why aren't you (or Human shields) there protecting them? Armchair bitching is easy.
Very interesting. Do you think the poor soldiers who are holding bags of money ($650 millions to be exact) are not going to take a few rolls?
Some already tried, got caught, and will face the appropriate consequence.
What is your point?
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You don't know a single fact about it and neither does anyone else. It could have been totally fabricated by the sunnis working at the museum, and the NYT. It wouldn't be the first time.
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