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?
Ted Rall is a part of the fifth column in this country. He should be prosecuted for sedition.
I see a liberal. I see a liberal on the front lines without ammunition.
Rall is a stupid, hate-filled man looking for the most inflammatory words he can find regardless of truth.
Ah, got it. I thought Rall might have not known what he was talking about.
More than usually, I mean.
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.... |
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?
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?
How 'bout we just ignore him. He is so insignificant that it is truly laughable that so many are upset.
Why thank you darkwolf...I am honored that you chose my post for your first response upon your return to FReeperLand!
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.
Concisely stated, he's a mamma's boy and a wimp.
But I'll bet my next paycheck Ted Rall voted for the baby-killing Vietnam vet turned coward and traitor: John F-ing Kerry
Anyone who critizes troops on the ground is a POS.
When did we stop having treason trials in this country?
He should be arrested immediately and placed on trial for treason, By the way ,is he related to John F'in Kerry?
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!
"Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them."
If that were true, how is it that Rall is still breathing?
Maybe he can get into a "conversation" when visiting the bathroom in his local restraurant..
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