Gael Murphey
Posted on 10/27/2005 8:46:21 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Not even bothering to read through articles they post on their website, Code Pink's DC prima donna, Gael Murphy saw an article written by an anti-war Vietnam vet that was titled "The Cost of War at Walter Reed," and thought she had hit pay-dirt.
So she posted it, apparently without reading it first. Big mistake.
The author of the article, Stewart Nusbaumer, writes that he was wounded in Vietnam and spent time at Bethesda Naval Hospital as an amputee recuperating from his very serious wounds; and writes his article from the perspective of one who has been where today's wounded soldiers are.
Click on this link to Code Pink's DC website and read it for yourself. About midway down in the article, read the section titled "The Rules of War." Note well Rule Number Three:
Rule 1: talk to the person and not to the wound. This can be difficult in the beginning since ugly wounds tend to overwhelm. But the bearer of ugly wounds remains much more than a wounded person, and this you need to respect. You can ask about the wound, but you cannot talk to only the wound.
Rule 2: allow wounded soldiers to do what they can do themselves. Give them the space and the opportunity to have control over their lives, even when severely dependent upon other people.
When I was in Bethesda Naval hospital in the late 1960s, leg amputated and bed ridden, frustrated with my constant dependence on others, a visitor asked me for a cigarette - in those days you could smoke right in the hospital - and I was ecstatic to hand him one. It felt great to do something on my own, in this case hand another human being an simple item.
Rule 3: forget your moral questions about the war. Morality is for those who support the war and for those who oppose the war, not for those in the war. Those seriously wounded are still fighting the war so clam up about the immorality of this stupid war.
A corollary to this rule is never protest against a war in front of a military facility, especially a military hospital. That is a no-brainer. You demonstrate against those who made the policy to go to war, not against those who are sworn to carry out the order to go to war.
Rule 4: don't assume this is a sad time for these recuperating men. For most their physical pain is receding or is being managed by drugs, and the true mental anguish has yet to sink in. They are focused on their future which after a close call with death looks darn rosy.
Hey, Gael! Even your fellow travelers think what you are doing at Walter Reed sucks.
LOL Ping!
I take it you've never met Gael?
I love the smell of stupidity in the morning, it smells like Code PINK.
Never have. Looks like I'm missing out.
Actually the group is COLD PINK, Frigid Women For peace
Drats!
I don't have enough spare space on my hard drive to save it!
Gaaa!
I wonder what percent of these women are married and what their husbands are like.
The Communist Party should send her to a Gulag for being so damn stupid, eh?
They're stuck in a quagmire; and Gael is grasping at anything to try and stay "relevant." Unfortunately for her, she didn't do well in reading comprehension.
Consider yourself one of the fortunate ones.
She probably posted it on her site for these paragraphs:
"The tough talking lions of the Bush Administration proclaimed "shock and awe" would destroy the Iraqi will to fight and then it would be a simple "cakewalk." So the cocky civilians unleashed the "mother" of all air assaults on Baghdad and then our strutting commander in chief - decked out in a fine flight suit - proclaimed, "Mission Accomplished."
But the flight-suit President dodged the Vietnam War, hiding in the Air National Guard's "Champagne Unit," strongly supporting the war from Texas. The Vice-President "had other options," although he insisted other Americans had no option but to fight the war. The Secretary of Defense enrolled in Princeton University instead of the Korean War; after the war he enrolled in the Navy. All the hawkish Neocons were too busy arguing for the Vietnam War to actually fight in that war. Shame, they missed their "noble" causes. So when it came to Iraq, none of these men had a clue about the will to fight."
And didn't read it further.
Eeeewwwww ... okay, I went there (yuk) and I saved it. Do I get a star? ;*)
What a great example of "give them enough rope"...
She has hung herself well.
Good find.
The pink font is a nice touch. I'm not sure Gael or her crowd are partial to boners, though.
Thanks for a great ping.
I do care about this author, we care, we respect and we want for this man and all of our wounded and dead, i am at a loss to express what or how i feel, i close my eyes and pray, and wish and want healing for these GOOD men.
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