The awful truth: arrogant America got it right (Aussie lib on Iraq, "I was wrong")

The Age (Australia) ^ | 11 May 2003 | Joanna Murray-Smith

[Stultis]

Well, she's pretty bitter about it, but more here than we'll ever get from Byrd, Dean, and most anti-American Americans.

[TomB]

Earlier, he had made an appearance on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which had been deftly positioned for the cameras with the sea in the background, disguising its actual position (off San Diego).

Just picking a nit here. I wonder if any of the journalists on board with the cameras considered TURINING AROUND?

[Pikachu_Dad]

Had to get a bunch of digs in with this 'appology'.

Not a very good one.

[Mr. Mojo]

My generation grew up inside the recriminations about Vietnam, in part through the movies. We were raised inside a distrust of political administrations' motivations

Then why does her kind only distrust the Republican ones?

[kesg]

I just wasted three irretrievable minutes of my life reading this worthless drivel.

[Pyrion]

They were quite a ways off the coast. Given the weather, you probably couldn't see much of San Diego even if they had turned around.

[Mister Baredog]

they shake their heads in wonder at the world's most powerful democracy's intolerance of criticism, even (and perhaps especially) from within its own borders.

Yea BUSH has no CRITICS in the US. LOL!!!

[Scothia]

In social situations, we all laugh about Bush and his marionette vacant-eyed performances, John Wayne meets Ned Flanders

Indeed. These victims of the emasculating feminist machine wouldn't recognize a real man if they stumbled over his boots.

I guess they don't know that the POTUS is the Commander-in-Chief of all our branches of military. His landing on the Abraham Lincoln and greeting the troops was completely appropriate.

But then, "appropriate" is not a word Italian/Aussie socialists would use a lot.

[TomB]

They were quite a ways off the coast. Given the weather, you probably couldn't see much of San Diego even if they had turned around.

Agreed. It just shows the abject stupidity of the left's complaints. Somehow ALL of the journalists were fooled into looking the other way and completely missed that they were within sight of land.

[reformedliberal]

The cost was either a wash or a *cost* of around $6k (something I doubt, but I'll mention it, anyway).

Luckily, we in America do not have to choose between flying an airplane or a hospital bed....yet. Our fuel costs are still quite affordable compared to the rest of the world's.
We have so far avoided a Federal fuel tax, as well.

As to Hollywood production values, this girl has it all wrong. Our President wore boots and hats before he was President, even if he is a *windshield cowboy*. He once wore a US airforce flight suit, before he was even a Governor.

I will bet some journos tried to get a shot of land and failed.

I appreciate that she watches Fox and Friends, though. Perhaps on some level she realizes that the guests and the reportage are more balanced than those on the other morning shows.

I told someone during the war that those who were marching against it would not be eager to admit that, afterwards. She mumbled some doubts. Good to see that it turned out to be accurate.

[Mister Baredog]

America, in all its infuriating arrogance, acted. Not so long ago, I dreaded this. And now, I have to admit, I was wrong.

After a long rant she slips this in at the end. I guess it's all about the meaning of "apology" now isn't it? She doesn't mean a word of it, this just gets her off the hook to go after all the "problems" we've created with our invasion.

[Travis McGee]

The Lincoln was NOT in sight of San Diego when the S-3 landed. It was about 35 miles away, well beyond the horizon.

[Free Vulcan]

But Mzzz. Joanna, all the little insults you throw at Bush and America pretty much describe the way I see most of you liberals here and across the pond. I guess it's just a matter of perception.

Problem is, you politically correct types are supposed to be tolerant and respect different perceptions on reality, but in truth the only one that matters is your own, the one that you filter the existing universe through to make reality comply with your pseudo-religious leftist ideology. I would say it is pretty selective in what it perceives.

The other problem is, no one as of yet has appointed you God, or at least High Emperor, making your perspective no more special than anyone elses. That only leaves you the power of logic and argument, which I don't see much of here.

[WarrenC]

yeah - how courageous. She spends 99.9% of her column on the "how-we-laugh-at-Bush-the-dummy" bits. So by the time she says those last three words she's already made it clear she doesn't believe she was wrong in any way that really matters.

[tet68]

From the deck it may well have been visible, still only a smudge though.

Where was her hilarity when X42 was diddling interns?

Joanna, I accept your apology, now get with the program.
MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!

[M Kehoe]

I just wasted three irretrievable minutes of my life reading this worthless drivel.

Unfortunately, you're not alone.

5.56mm

[longtermmemmory]

The appology was barely two sentences. Talk about a backhanded appology. I boils down to "this ONCE they got it right." She must be living in diffent parts of europe. The parts I saw, business related, where far different than the hippie sentiments she describes in italy.

[cynicom]

The author needs to hark back to 1942 when the Japanese were bombing northern Australia every day. The Aussies took off like scared rabbits for points south. There was a daily clamor for Uncle Sam to send help. How soon so many of them have forgotten. It was the US that dislodged Japan from the South Pacific.

[Polybius]

The Lincoln was NOT in sight of San Diego when the S-3 landed. It was about 35 miles away, well beyond the horizon.

Are you trying to tell us that the Earth is not flat? ;-)

[Travis McGee]

Last I checked.