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Rall: US Soldiers are Poorly Paid Contract Killers
Newsbusters.org ^ | 12/8/05 | Robin Mullins Boyd

Posted on 12/08/2005 5:25:56 PM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger

Ted Rall has struck again - this time with words instead of his little cartoons. In his Dec. 6, 2005 editorial, "We're Looking for a Few Good Refuseniks", Rall attacks the US military and veterans again. Rall credits the "unelected" President Bush for the military turning its back on its once "honorable calling". Rall then blames the US soldiers for "torturing, maiming and murdering POWs, robbing and subjecting civilians to collective punishment, dropping white phosphorus and depleted uranium bombs on civilian targets."

Pooh-poohing the "they are just following orders" excuse, Rall reminds his readers that the illegal, immoral and unjust war could not have been waged without a "compliant and complicit US military". He calls for the "men and women of our armed forces" to be "held individually accountable for the carnage". Rall continues that our "government's poorly paid contract killers" do not deserve our support for blindly following orders. So much for "we support the troops but not their mission".

Rall holds up Darrell Anderson, the 22 year old deserter, as a role model for the soldiers serving their country. Anderson ran and hid in Canada because he "couldn't kill women and children." Rall said that Anderson made the "right choice".

In the closing of his anti-military screed, Rall could not resist attacking another group of military veterans - the Vietnam Veterans. The reports of Vietnam Veterans being spit on and being called baby-killers was nothing more than fiction in Rall's warped little world. Contrary to what the world actually witnessed, Rall said it was the first Rambo movie that spurred all the spitting and baby-killer claims. Instead of treating our returning veterans like gum on the bottom of their shoe, Rall recounts Chris Clarke's take of the anti-Vietnam activists "opening coffee houses near the military bases and sending the GI's care packages and letters."

Ted Rall does have the right to free speech - thanks to the soldiers that he hates. What he does not have the right to do is offer aid and comfort to our enemies by undermining our soldiers. Some of the Democrats are distancing themselves from Howard Dean and his "we're gonna lose" attitude. When will the media, especially Yahoo, start distancing themselves and stop publishing hate from the anti-American, anti-military scum, Ted Rall?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: scumbag; tedrall; traitor; treason
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

Ted Rall is a part of the fifth column in this country. He should be prosecuted for sedition.


21 posted on 12/08/2005 5:36:50 PM PST by olezip
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

I see a liberal. I see a liberal on the front lines without ammunition.


22 posted on 12/08/2005 5:38:05 PM PST by Reactionary (The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
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To: Monkey King
Ah...no. No depleted uranium bombs. They make good anti-tank projectiles when shot out of barrels, though.

Rall is a stupid, hate-filled man looking for the most inflammatory words he can find regardless of truth.

23 posted on 12/08/2005 5:39:21 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Ah, got it. I thought Rall might have not known what he was talking about.

More than usually, I mean.


24 posted on 12/08/2005 5:39:22 PM PST by Monkey King
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

 

Just so we all know what he looks like in case one of us ever "bumps" into him on the street, in the airport, in a restaurant, in a dark alley....

25 posted on 12/08/2005 5:40:48 PM PST by Fintan (Suppose there were no hypothectical questions?)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger
I've been offline since August, so you get my first posting since my return to cyberspace, you lucky FReeper, you.

Doesn't Ted Rall seem like the kid who shocked the teacher by writing a "controversial" essay in creative writing class, and his classmates briefly stopped calling him a nerd because he shocked the teacher, but after he kept writing more "controversial" essays in order to get more kudos, now everyone hates him again, because they see he really is just a nerd?

26 posted on 12/08/2005 5:44:11 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (If you like Hillary for prez, vote third party!)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

AWWWW, you guys be nice to Teddie. I did some researching and it appears that little Teddie is an anti-authority type because his Daddy abandonded him and his Mommy.

The following is a pro-Ted blog-blurb that sums up the source of Teddie's angst:
""Another gem is Ted Rall's scathing Father's Day "tribute" to the man who abandoned him and his mother. After an attempted reconciliation, Rall's father reneged on a promise to pay his son's college tuition, just as the boy was packing his bags for Columbia. "This year on Father's Day, I'm calling my real dad," Rall writes. "I'm calling Mom." The New York Times Magazine killed the essay. "I heard that it made some influential people on West Forty-Third Street feel `uncomfortable,' " Rall recounts.""

Please guys, go easy on poooooor "I Coulda Gone To Columbia If It Was Not For Him" Teddie, as he has obviously been raised an angry, liberal broken-homer. In all seriousness can we pitch in for some counselling for him? Can we start a "Help Teddie" fund, and set this misbegotten, almost-a-bastard on the road to sanity?


27 posted on 12/08/2005 5:44:22 PM PST by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

How 'bout we just ignore him. He is so insignificant that it is truly laughable that so many are upset.


28 posted on 12/08/2005 5:45:32 PM PST by fix
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To: Darkwolf377

Why thank you darkwolf...I am honored that you chose my post for your first response upon your return to FReeperLand!


29 posted on 12/08/2005 5:47:34 PM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger (All aboard the Chickenhawk Express blog!)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

Could just put him in a cell with Tookie for a couple of hours. He'd be gone, and Tookie's fan club would quickly dissolve.

Kill two jailbirds with one stone.


30 posted on 12/08/2005 5:48:10 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: ExpatGator
You really got him figured out. He's the typical lib, lashing out at the world, at his superiors, because he really, really wants a hug, and to be embraced by those he attacks.

Concisely stated, he's a mamma's boy and a wimp.

31 posted on 12/08/2005 5:49:11 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (If you like Hillary for prez, vote third party!)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger
In the closing of his anti-military screed, Rall could not resist attacking another group of military veterans - the Vietnam Veterans.

But I'll bet my next paycheck Ted Rall voted for the baby-killing Vietnam vet turned coward and traitor: John F-ing Kerry

32 posted on 12/08/2005 5:50:02 PM PST by manwiththehands ("Attack (Democrats) until they stop twitching and then attack some more." -J. Peter Mulhern)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

Anyone who critizes troops on the ground is a POS.


33 posted on 12/08/2005 5:54:05 PM PST by ex-snook ("Come behold the deeds of the Lord, the astounding things he has wrought on earth.")
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

When did we stop having treason trials in this country?


34 posted on 12/08/2005 5:54:44 PM PST by bigsigh
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

He should be arrested immediately and placed on trial for treason, By the way ,is he related to John F'in Kerry?


35 posted on 12/08/2005 5:57:00 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: ExpatGator

He hates his Daddy! Why, it all makes sense now!! Daddy was mean, there is no God, authority is bad, Down with the patriarchy! Ewww, I hurt so baaaad!


36 posted on 12/08/2005 5:57:23 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: bigsigh

"Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them."


37 posted on 12/08/2005 6:07:59 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger
US Soldiers are Poorly Paid Contract Killers

If that were true, how is it that Rall is still breathing?

38 posted on 12/08/2005 6:13:17 PM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger
[ Here's hoping the US military that Rall hates so much decides to pay him a personal visit when they return home... ]

Maybe he can get into a "conversation" when visiting the bathroom in his local restraurant..

40 posted on 12/08/2005 6:21:13 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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