Chickens in a darkening sky

WorkingForChange ^ | 03.27.03 | Alexander Cockburn - Creators Syndicate

[Poohbah]

Willie, did you call this person's village to find out if their idiot has gone missing?

[dighton]

Not long from now, I expect to see Cockburn in The Greek Conservative.

[Argus]

Cockburn's many oil portraits of Stalin must be covered with drool from the way he obsessively slobbers over his hero.

[Willie Green]

No. They'd only deny having ever heard of him.

(But I kinda liked the catchy title, so I posted the article anyway.)

[tomahawk]

Cockburn is an America hater.

[IowaHawk]

Feel the love; goose-stepping "populists" from the Right and flag-stomping cretins from the Left get together for a big cuddly jew-bashing, conspiracy theory group hug.

Awwwww. Get a room, you two.

[RightWhale]

Sky is dark with chickens. WKRP strikes again.

[Burkeman1]

Stalingrad? This guy doesn't have a clue. Baghdad will not be anything like Stalingrad.

[Poohbah]

Alexander Cockburn: "As God (whom I do not believe in, anyway) is my witness, I thought chickens could fly!"

[Darksheare]

"It is impossible to know whether U.S. violations of the Conventions led to Iraqi non-compliance," Ratner says"

Umm.. so now Iraq executed our soldiers because we provoked them to do it?
It's our fault Iraq is a murderous rogue nation?

Maybe Ratner needs to go there in person.

[Willie Green]

Cockburn is an America hater.

Yeah, but with "Chickens in a darkening sky", he does a great takeoff on Grantland Rice:

"Outlined against a blue, gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again.

"In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below."

[=Intervention=]

This article is shot through with lies and distortion. The most obvious one is the conflagaration over POWs. Al-Quaeda, as a terrorist organization, is NOT, let me repeat NOT, a governmental entity. How could it then be responsible for adhering to the Geneva conventions? The Geneva conventions, it must be remembered, bind the states who signed them. I don't recall Al-Quaeda or the Taliban signing them, do you? Judging by inference, apparently Iraq DID sign the Geneva conventions, thus they CAN be held accountable to them. Stop the lies already.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Saddam Hussein, a devoted admirer of Joseph Stalin,...

Well, isn't that nice? Alex and Saddam have something in common.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Saddam Hussein, a devoted admirer of Joseph Stalin,...

Well, isn't that nice? Alex and Saddam have something in common.

[=Intervention=]

Another few things...This writer lambasts only the United States, but says nothing about the brutal nature of the regimes we seek to clean from the face of the earth. He argues that we should fight with one hand behind our back in order to facilitate our losses. What a coward. Also, I'd like to see his sources. Ten to one he's invented them.

[Keith]

This guy doesn't know his history. The Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators until they started abusing the population. There were Ukrainian units in the SS and a large Ukrainian army fought alongside the Nazis in the WWII.

Lousy analogy.

[laconic]

Differences with Stalingrad: 1) weather is "better"; 2) no outside source of supply such as the US; 3) German line back to source supply products was 2000 miles long - ours is 300 miles; 4) the generals are (mostly) in charge rather than a raving lunatic in Berlin; 5) Hitler intended to use Russians as slaves.

[Cable225]

For a brief, fleeting moment I thought Alexander Cocklover was going to make sense.

Then I read the first paragraph.

[driftless]

The pro-Saddam, anti-West fifth columnists like Cockburn are smoking heavy dope. For one thing the Russians were reinforced daily and had over a million more soldiers than the Germans at their command. The Germans were not able to be resupplied or reinforced in the numbers they needed and did not have the vast technical and military superiority that the coalition forces have. By ourselves we could do it without great problems. With the Brits and other wonderful allies with us, Hussein doesn't stand the chance of a snowball in Hell where he will be going very shortly. It's just a matter of time.