Posted on 02/01/2006 3:31:44 PM PST by RWR8189
Washington political consultant John Aravosis sees evidence of growing dissatisfaction regarding the Abramoff scandal,
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Gotta say, I'm a liberal who sometimes posts at Free Republic, and I'm shocked at the unanimity with which you all don't get this cartoon. The troops are being done wrong by their civilian leaders--as the cartoon suggests--just like in Vietnam. If you're not holding those civilian leaders to account, how can you respect the troops?
Amputee Soldiers Are Funny? Not To The Joint Chiefs
Political cartoonist, Tom Toles, thinks amputee soldiers are funny. He created a political cartoon recently that appeared in the Washington post (Mon., Jan. 30th) that showed a quadriplegic soldier, in a hospital bed. He was being visited by "Dr." Rumsfeld. "Dr." Rumsfeld says, "I am listing your condition as battle hardened." At the bottom a smaller figure of the doctor adds, "I'm prescribing that you be stretched thin. We don't define that as torture."
But the Joint Chiefs of US armed forces have sent a rare letter of protest to the paper to take artist Toles and the paper to task.
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the letter protesting this cartoon, the contents of which the paper has not fully disclosed, was signed by all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It is being reported that the letter says, in part that, that the Joint Chiefs were "extremely disappointed" in the cartoon. "Using the likeness of a service member who has lost his arms and legs in war as the central theme of a cartoon is beyond tasteless,"
The letter goes on to say, "While you or some of your readers may not agree with the war or its conduct, we believe you owe the men and women and their families who so selflessly serve our country the decency to not make light of their tremendous physical sacrifices."
I couldn't agree more and it is heartening to see the Joint Chiefs finally speaking up against this kind of treatment thrown against our soldiers by hat-mongers and anti-war cretins such as Toles and the Post.
Now if only we could have something said to the "protesters" who parade out in front of the hospitals our soldiers go to for therapy. These protesters harass injured soldiers and their families routinely.
But remember, they really do "support the troops".
...in a pig's eye, they do.
Youve been listening to Kerry and Murtha too much.
Liberal blogger, Aravosis: "NBC confirms it's investigating whether Bush spied on CNN's Christiane Amanpour,"
If the JCS can distract the public from trenchant criticism by claiming it's disrespectful to the troops--and remember, the cartoon is about RUMSFELD, not the soldier--doesn't that give them a free pass to cover their butts and deflect ANY criticism?
Is it possible that what bothers them isn't the depiction of the soldier, but the sharpness of the criticism of the Pentagon civilians?
Not a quadriplegic, a quadruple amputee.
Please crawl back over to the DU sewer.
It's just a stupid, unfunny liberal cartoon but I see no reason to get all bent out of shape over it, especially since we are all laughing at the Moslems for being so outraged by the cartoons that appeared in the Jyllands-Posten.
Your response is shocking.
I have friends freshly back from the war who completely disagree with this statement.
This cartoon, your statment and the statment by the homo disgusts me.
Yes. Before we flush the toilet and send you there...
But this one crosses a line. It's in extraordinarily poor taste. As a former cartoonist myself, I know that not every clever idea deserves to leave the drawing board. This was one of them.
[The troops are being done wrong by their civilian leaders]
No Sir. It is you who does not get it. TERRORISTS!!! ...not our civilian leaders... are harming our troops, just like they harmed our civilians on 9-11. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice are doing an incredible job of SUPPORTING our troops in spite of anti-American obstructionists like yourself.
Eaker, a dozen vets back from Iraq are running for Congress as Democrats. They would agree more with Toles than with you, I think.
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