Posted on 07/18/2004 10:45:55 AM PDT by the_gospel_of_thomas
Afew things I need to get off my mind: Tom Cruise will present a tribute to Pat Tillman during the ESPY Awards. You remember Tillman, who quit the NFL to join the Army Rangers and was killed in Afghanistan earlier this year. You remember Cruise, who in lieu of a box-office hit will happily reach millions of homes via ESPN.
Words I expect Cruise to use during the Tillman tribute: hero, courage, warrior.
Sentiments I don't expect Cruise to express during the Tillman tribute: unjust war, his poor widow, what was he thinking?
Remind me not to watch.
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I emailed ESPN.
Sickening.
HAD to get off her mind?? What a miserable life she must have if a short tribute to a fallen soldier is really f'ing up her weekend that much. This is human being who could use a serious attitude adjustment.
What did you say to ESPN in your letter?
I emailed her and her department. This is so outrageous that her editor allowed this to get into print. They both need to be immediately dismissed.
Pat Tillman represented the best. His death was a tragic loss for the entire nation. We desperately need role models such as Tillman. How rare to find someone, especially an athlete, who puts values way above greed and self promotion
That is the only thing it is possible to mean by "unjust war."
Not "unwise," not "unnecessary," not "badly-conceived" (all of which criticisms are well within the bounds of moral propriety, even if wrong), but "unjust."
So did she actually mean "unjust war," or is she just too stupid to know what she is saying?
I'll buy that. Her mind does not seem nearly sturdy enough to bear the weight of even these lightweight thoughts.
Basically what others here are saying!
"Unjust war" to a liberal means that 10 times as many Iraqis died as coalition troops. BTW, that is ~10,000. The prewar leftist prediction was over a million dead Iraqis.
I emailed her last week, and didn't receive any response (for one thing, I pointed out that she's implying that Tillman died in Iraq, not Afghanistan). Do you know what her editor's name is, so I can forward my email to him/her? Thanks.
Remember---Tillman died in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Now the Democrats are claiming we unjustly removed the Taliban.
Clarification -- she did say Tillman died in Afghanistan, but she makes it as if he signed up for Iraq.
That's just what I was thinking. The war in Afghanistan was a just war if there ever was one.
Not so. He signed up in the winter of 02, over a year before Iraq started.
She sounds like she's trying to be the Phil Mushnick of the Chicago Sun-Times with all her complaints. Only Mushnick has a conscience and a value system.
Oh, yeah, you're right. That's even worse.
I suppose I was thinking Iraq because only Michael Moore has so far had the guts to admit that he believed the war in Afghanistan was unjust.
Oh, well, at least they're admitting what they are before the election. Hopefully swing voters will recognize that these people form a critical part of the Kerry Koalition, and that even if Kerry thinks that the war in Afghanistan was right, a Kerry victory will inevitably give people like this greater influence in US policy.
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