Posted on 03/05/2010 1:05:46 PM PST by rabscuttle385
People who read The Nation don’t care about POWs or people in uniform. So what was their point for printing this, other than as a hit piece on McCain during the election?
Where was The Nation on this very issue when Kerry (McCain’s partner in crime) was running for president?
MIA, that’s where.
How can JD sum this up in an ad?
I don’t like McCain, but anything printed in The Nation is a commie lie, and anybody on FR who believes anything from “The Nation” is an idiot.
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You ever watch Democracy Now!, Rabs? They make Olbermann look sane by comparison.
The other POWs didn't get warm clothing and hot coffee. They shivered in shorty pajamas and ate wormy rice.
“a memoir of his experiences covering the war in Cambodia for the New York Times”
I should have known the New York Times was involved. There is no limit how low these people will go.
Get this commie cr@p out of here, you commie.
This is the same crap that the Obama campaign was putting out in 2008.
Can’t JD do better than copying Obama????
Ever heard of a propaganda photo, Joe?
Hit piece. And The Nation? Now THERE’S a credible source (snort).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Schanberg
Following years of U.S. carpet bombing campaigns over Cambodia and Laos, Schanberg wrote in The New York Times about the departure of the Americans and the coming regime change, writing about the Cambodians that "it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone." The Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 and killed approximately two million people. A dispatch he wrote on April 13, 1975, written from Phnom Penh, ran with the headline "Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."[1] However, in the same piece, Schanberg also wrote, "This is not to say that the Communist-backed governments which will replace the American clients can be expected to be benevolent. Already, in Cambodia, there is evidence in the areas led by the Communist-led Cambodian insurgents that life is hard and inflexible, everything that Cambodians are not." However, in the same article, Schanberg then went on to reject claims that the communist takeover of Cambodia could lead to state-sponsored genocide: "Wars nourish brutality and sadism, and sometimes certain people are executed by the victors but it would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior as a national policy under a Communist government once the war is over."
I agree and why would a left wing print this about a person that votes with them a lot of the time?
Are we seriously citing The Nation and Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now?? Come on. You will not find a person on this planet more committed to the destruction of American values and the American military than Amy Goodman. She routinely refers to “war crimes”, the wholesale slaughter of women and children by American soldiers, and has never met an enemy of this country she couldn’t support.
When Amy Goodman takes a position, its a good idea to go the other way.
I don’t like McCain, but I will not besmirtch his service to this country in Vietnam. He is a legitimate war hero, and has my respect for that.
I held my nose and pulled the lever for him in 2008, and will not ever do so again. I sincerely hope that JD Hayworth wins in Arizona ... but a denigration of John McCain’s military service is a denigration of the service of every soldier that spent time in Vietnam or since.
SnakeDoc
“The Nation” leftists like YOU, Schanberg, did everything in your power to LOSE the war in Vietnam, cost 2 million Cambodian lives and PI$$ED all over returning soldiers. And now we’re supposed to believe you are OH SO CONCERNED about MIA’s and POW’S!!! BULLSHITE!!!
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