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[RandallFlagg]

ICK! I hope you showered after going there!

[M1Tanker]

C Company/1-34AR/1st BDE/1ID

M1A1 Tank platoon leader

Leaves behind a newly married wife.

And the liberals/terrorists/enemies of freedom are just jumping for joy at his death.

[exile]

I've got to ask, is anyone really surprised by this? Everyone knows that the left hate America and want to see it destroyed. This is just like one of us posting that President Bush is a great leader, or that Exile is one good looking dude. It would just be a waste of space because everyone already knows these things.

[huck von finn]

When was this? I just looked and found nothing.

[Prodigal Son]

It's no more fair for us to portray DU by a removed extreme-fringe post than it is for them to do it to us.

That would be true except this isn't really all that fringe for DU. I infiltrated that place once. Made it to over a thousand posts. There are some seriously sick people there. Seriously. You know how many threads they had to pull during the hot part of Operation Iraqi Freedom because lots of different members were calling soldiers murderers, wishing they'd get killed etc?

There was one just yesterday entitled "Will you support the troops when they kill their officers". And a hint here- it wasn't a rhetorical question- that's the kind of thing they seriously think about. That thread got dozens and dozens of replies from long time posters trying to sort out whether our troops have a moral responsibility to murder their officers or not. The thread got pulled of course.

Go over there and look in their 9/11 forum. Wall to wall conspiracy kooks. The people on the planes were gassed by the CIA and the planes were replaced with drones ad nauseum.

Look in their Foreign Affairs forum- one solid phlegm ball of anti-Israeli, Pro-Palestinian garbage. They have to keep that forum sort of hidden away- it's too ugly for the general public.

Check out the number of threads over there that don't get any replies. There's quite a lot actually and if you'll study them, after a while you'll see a pattern. Any problem like Zimbabwe, the UN culpability for the security lapses in Iraq that got their workers killed, Africans murdering each other on that Continent etc- anything that questions their worldview or is too hard for them to explain, they simply ignore it. They live in a very strange and black world where they live to "Hate America All the Time".

And contrary to this place, Skinner (their admin mod) did a sort of scientific survey of who their disruptors were and it turns out the ones that post the most inflammatory comments (those comments most often pulled) are members with thousands of posts (not infiltrator/disruptors).

What are they going to show about us here? That we hate the French? Ok, we're Americans. What is more forgiveable- for us to hate the French because of some perceived treachery during wartime or for them to call for our American troops to be killed during wartime?

Fine, let them air our dirty laundry. Paint me xenophobic anyday rather than let it be said I want our soldiers dead on foreign soil.

I've seen loads of threads over there exactly in this vein and for me, this is more typical of that place than not. They really, really do hate America. Hard to fathom but it's true.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Looks like the Dummies pulled the thread, and I don't save their crap to my hard drive. I posted the link above, it got sent to me in FR mail last night.

[LongsforReagan]

I truly hate DUers and everything they represent.

That is all.

[MEGoody]

"They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly."

Guess this 'lady' would have preferred to have Saddam and sons still actively using their rape rooms and children's prisons. She'd probably also like it better if the kids were being propgandized in school instead of being taught basic reading, writing and arithmetic.

It's also obvious this 'lady' hasn't paid attention to recent world history nor read the Kay report.

[Phantom Lord]

I agree with the policy of not posting DU stuff. But I do believe that there should be a process to go through to get stuff from DU posted that is clearly worth posting if not for any reason other than archiving it. This is one of those cases.

I only wish that we had the entire thread "screen shot" to post. The replies were just as bad as the original post.

[mattdono]

DU sucks and their stats show. Here is their internet rankings from 10/30/2003

Site	Today	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
FreeRepublic.com	979	1,126	953	Down 40
DemocraticUnderground.com	5,648	6,650	5,018	Down 1,386

Source: Alexa.com

DOWN 1386 positions! LOL!

[mhking]

Yeah - Boortz talked about this one today as well.

[RandallFlagg]

Heh! Did you get my PM about me getting botted off the Metallica boards?

[FlyVet]

I doubt it would do any good to e-mail her. A 58 year old broad with the mind of a 17 year old punk is not about to change for anybody.

[RandallFlagg]

"Botted" = booted.

[Phantom Lord]

I thought it was valuable to see that most of the posters to it disagreed strongly with the sentiment expressed in the post.

Most? I would say so only by a very slim margin. Also take not that multiple threads haven't been started over there condeming Starpass and her supporters, but many threads have been posting SUPPORTING Starpass.

[Az Joe]

The post was allowed to stay up until it started to generate negative publicity off site.

Also, most of the responses to that post did not condemn it.

Where on Free Republic has a poster advocated and wished for Americans to die in battle?

[Congressman Billybob]

Ellen Ratner, a NPR regular and "Fox News Contributor," said much the same thing when interviewed live on Cavuto's Show, Brenda Buttner sitting in for Cavuto. The Rat said she "hoped .. that Bush would mess up in Iraq." When Buttner immediately challenged her about "hoping" Americans would die there, the Rat said, "Well, I want Bush defeated."

Fox should fire Ratner. It's hard to say why they haven't, since there are some "liberals" who are both more honest and less obnoxious then the Rat.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Open Judicial Mouth, Insert Foot," discussion thread. IF YOU WANT A FREEPER IN CONGRESS, CLICK HERE.

[RightWingMama]

Thank you for your service.

[tkathy]

Similar to the Muslims blaming the jews for all their problems instead of taking a good long hard look in the mirror.

[KosmicKitty]

I'm a 58 year old broad and I can tell you that what is going on in our country isn't the usual ebb and flow of politics where one party is in power and then another;

Babs, is that you?? Gee, I thought you were older. Too bad about hubbie's drama. But don't get yourself in a snit about it. Let's do lunch soon - okay?