In what looks like an editorial authored by one of the more extreme members of the Democratic Underground, the New York Times ended the year with a rabid leftwing rant that among other things accused American soldiers of war crimes on a large scale: Posted on 01/01/2008 8:22:50 AM PST by PJ-Comix
In what looks like an editorial authored by one of the more extreme members of the Democratic Underground, the New York Times ended the year with a rabid leftwing rant that among other things accused American soldiers of war crimes on a large scale:
In the years since 9/11, we have seen American soldiers abuse, sexually humiliate, torment and murder prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. A few have been punished, but their leaders have never been called to account. We have seen mercenaries gun down Iraqi civilians with no fear of prosecution. We have seen the president, sworn to defend the Constitution, turn his powers on his own citizens, authorizing the intelligence agencies to spy on Americans, wiretapping phones and intercepting international e-mail messages without a warrant.
If you think these assertions are outrageous, the Times' editorialist was only getting warmed up:
There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency.
No mention in the editorial about Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats being briefed on waterboarding way back in 2002. The main point of this editorial was to attack the Bush administration and Republicans with absolutely no anger directed against actual terrorists:
We have read accounts of how the government’s top lawyers huddled in secret after the attacks in New York and Washington and plotted ways to circumvent the Geneva Conventions — and both American and international law — to hold anyone the president chose indefinitely without charges or judicial review.
Those same lawyers then twisted other laws beyond recognition to allow Mr. Bush to turn intelligence agents into torturers, to force doctors to abdicate their professional oaths and responsibilities to prepare prisoners for abuse, and then to monitor the torment to make sure it didn’t go just a bit too far and actually kill them.
The White House used the fear of terrorism and the sense of national unity to ram laws through Congress that gave law-enforcement agencies far more power than they truly needed to respond to the threat — and at the same time fulfilled the imperial fantasies of Vice President Dick Cheney and others determined to use the tragedy of 9/11 to arrogate as much power as they could.
So according to this New York Times editorial the real problem isn't the terrorists themselves but the fear of terrorism that was used to fulfill the "imperial fantasies" of Vice President Cheney and other EVIL Republicans in their drive to acquire power. You can almost hear the violins playing as the Times laments the fate of the poor little terrorists at the hand of the Bush administration:
Hundreds of men, swept up on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, were thrown into a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, so that the White House could claim they were beyond the reach of American laws. Prisoners are held there with no hope of real justice, only the chance to face a kangaroo court where evidence and the names of their accusers are kept secret, and where they are not permitted to talk about the abuse they have suffered at the hands of American jailers.
The editorial concludes with a plea to in effect elect a Democrat as president to correct all the horrible misdeeds committed, according to the fantasies of this editorialist, by the Bush administration:
These are not the only shocking abuses of President Bush’s two terms in office, made in the name of fighting terrorism. There is much more — so much that the next president will have a full agenda simply discovering all the wrongs that have been done and then righting them.
We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will see, once again, the reflection of the United States of America.
Reading this warped editorial, one has to wonder what the DU screen name of this author is over at the Democratic Underground.
If the squeal this much about GWB I cannot wait to hear em yell when Fred gets in the Whitehouse.
They will never, ever "get it"
Article such as this bring to mind two, currently popular, myths.
1. It’s just about a difference of opinion.
2. We can continue to peacefully co-exist with such people.
OK, let’s hope this was a last-gasp expulsion of venom, a prelude to turning over a new leaf for 2008. Yeah, right! :)
Damn them.
I guess the NY Times editor made a New Year’s Resolution to do their part in in helping their side on the War on Terror. I just wish their side was the USA.
Why didn’t John Kerry sign his name?
When you have no fear of retaliation for being a traitor, of aiding and abetting the enemy, this is what you get from liberals.
authorizing the intelligence agencies to spy on Americans,...when did that happen?
SEE???????? EVERYONE who works for the New York Times are LYING TRAITORS!!!
It’s Haditha round 2! Blaring accusations without a shred of truth, that they will have to retract on page 37, of section U...in about 4 months...buried near the bottom of the page...in small print.
Every last one, from Sulzberger on down should be tried and hung.
this rag is a traitor to their own country...wonder how long it will be before they go down
Nice SE course plotted toward Zed. Full speed ahead!
What do youe expect? Its from a DUmmie in a Dummie rag.
“They will never, ever “get it””
They will for a very brief moment after the terrorists cut their heads off.
The REALLY sad part is that most of the comments are in favor of continued treason by the Slimes. Hopefully, their bottom line will continue to suffer until it gone.
If I thought for one second that liberals had a conscience, I would ask “How do you sleep at night?”
“OK, let’s hope this was a last-gasp expulsion of venom, a prelude to turning over a new leaf for 2008. Yeah, right! :)”
Glad you put the “Yeah, right!” after the first sentence. I was gonna ask that you not hold your breath waiting...”
The NYT is treasonous - and so are their remaining subscribers.
He's also a gigolo and a girly man but that's another sentence for another day.
So Hillary undoes the aggressive intelligence gathering of the Bush administration and Seattle gets nuked. What would the NYT editorial page say then? Oooops?
Never, of course. But why let the truth stand in the way of a perfectly-formed delusion?
It ought to come with a warning label.
I respectfully disagree with you, FRiend.
They get it, loud and clear. If we had klintoon or any other DUmbo instead of President Bush, you would've seen the Adminstration's "accomplishments" in protecting us and waging a "successful" global WoT.
The BDS is in full bloom and the traitors took the gloves off and came out in the open for the DUmbos. They will try openly to elect a DUmb if it kills them.
We say that the Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column. The Fifth Column which is supposed to work in secret, isn't any more. It's in your face with no shame. They claim that they are independent but, we know better.
In WW II era, FDR would have put all of them in jail!
Happy New Year!
They would complain about losing voters.....{8-/
Keep not buying that rag - in fact we should have a huge push to boycott them.
Meantime...NYT -> PENNY STOCK!!!
Wow, what a brilliant idea! This ought to increase their circulation! < /sarcasm >
They'd say that the perpetrators wouldn't have been mad at us if not for what the Bush administration did.
This BS would have never been written just a few decades ago. My how times have changed...and not for the better.
Of course, if our politicians had balls like they used to people wouldn’t dare play these games.
all they are saying is give appeasement a chance....
DFU SONG: Out of Time (treasonous New York Times; now eviscerated on YouTube)
DFU News of the Day in Song ^ | 5-2007 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
Posted on 05/31/2007 2:01:54 PM PDT by doug from upland
They are helping terrorists...the lefties just cannot resist
Al-Qaeda reads their front page every day
It isn't too surprising why our anger is rising
'Cause there's treason going on at the New York Times
They're glad to hurt our nation...the New York Times
Leaking's never on vacation...the New York Times
There is no more doubt...that our soldiers they sold out
They're proud to publish secrets...the New York Times
If Japan were fighting still...the Navajo code they would spill
They all should fry just like the Rosenbergs
It isn't too surprising why our anger is rising
'Cause there's treason going on at the New York Times
They're glad to hurt our nation...the New York Times
Leaking's never on vacation...the New York Times
There is no more doubt...that our soldiers they sold out
They're proud to publish secrets...the New York Times
At concerns they quickly scoff...and flippantly they blow it off
The Old Gray Lady isn't like before
It isn't too surprising why our anger is rising
'Cause there's treason going on at the New York Times
They're glad to hurt our nation...the New York Times
Leaking's never on vacation...the New York Times
There is no more doubt...that our soldiers they sold out
They're proud to publish secrets...the New York Times
Treasonous New York Times...treasonous New York Times
These people have been slowly pushed into a corner where they look stupid, so I can understand the shrill nature of the editorial.
Ever since I discovered FR, I’ve used a single tagline. It is sad to state that I find my twist on their MASTHEAD more accurate than ever. Here we have the direst threat to our first amendment.
One of the commentors over at NewsBusters has pointed out that one of the commentaries left at the NYT over this editorial was made by Bill Keller of NJ. Is this THE Bill Keller the editor?
Apparently treason, perversion and anti-Americanism knows no limits at the New York Slimes.
Thank God the New York Times is dying.
I only wish it would hurry up and be dead.
The enemy within!
The New York Times is the Amtrack of newspapers.
They’re a nineteenth century atavism which dragged itself ponderously through the twentieth and is currently drawing flies on the tidal flats of the twenty first.
Like the liberals got Roe v. Wade, which required doctors to ignore the Hippocratic oath and perform abortions? And the same liberals are now pushing for euthanasia and socialized health care, in which bureaucrats decide whether you live or die.
And Pinch and the NYT are a prime example.
Pinch qualified to become publisher by living thru birth.
Maybe the board should consider asking Pinch’s mom to have a 150th trimester abortion. That would be a two-fer. It would give the stock a pop and it would give the editorial board something to do: badgering justice Kennedy into inventing a new constitutional right.
Maybe they should just change their name to PRAVDA!
I wouldn’t insult my bird by lining the floor of his cage with it. It stinks before you wrap fish guts in it.
“These people have been slowly pushed into a corner where they look stupid, so I can understand the shrill nature of the editorial.”
This is what happens when arrogant, ignorant people who have been told all of their lives how smart they are are confronted by the reality of how ignorant they are. Shrill is all they have.
Is P.J. Gladnick John Murtha’s Grand Nephew?
I can’t wait for the Republicans to stand up and defend our brave military against this despicable slander.
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...and now you know why so many Americans believe the Democrat lies.
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