Posted on 04/16/2003 4:24:09 AM PDT by putupon
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
FROM RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL: FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS...
Mayor Rudy McCollum's embarrassing and irrational "French Resolution" calling for the immediate withdrawal of US troops in Iraqwent down in flames in a 5-2 vote. The mayor had so little support on council that, after the debate, he tried to withdraw the resolution, blaming fellow council members for allowing "their personal feelings to keep them from using logic." This from a guy who wants the city of Richmond, VA to determine America's foreign policy.
...AND THE BAD NEWS
About a dozen Richmonders sat from 6pm until after 11pm to speak on the resolution, nearly all of them in favor. And nearly all of the speakers were dolts. Several actually announced that war is "always wrong" and "violence never solves anything," the kind of junior-high vapidity one rarely hears from grown adults. Several compared the United States under President Bush to Nazi Germany ("Please stop Bush from becoming another Hitler," one barely-literate Goth-wannabe-girl mumbled into the mic), and they all complained that their voices weren't being heard.
"For months I've felt so powerless," said one man, "I've marched in New York and in Washington, but President Bush has just ignored us," he said without a hint of irony just minutes before his local city council did the same.
But the most ignorant commentary came from the council itself. Mayor McCollum would have sounded more coherent if he had been drunk. Instead, he kept insisting that his resolution--which calls Operation Iraqi Freedom "beneath the honor of the U.S. military"--was absolutely supportive of the troops. He then said that the only reason he proposed it was to protect free speech. Where else could Richmonders gather to speak freely? wondered the mayor of a city where 2,000 war protesters and 10,000 supporters gathered just three weeks ago.
But the award for most vile, ignorant boobery must go to the Reverend Vice Mayor Delores McQuinn who, among her many offensive blatherings in support of the resolution, commented: "I don't really see the difference between [America] and Saddam Hussein. Killing is killing. We aren't more innocent than he is."
Yeah, that's right: Saddam Hussein runs torture chambers, imprisons five year olds, hangs Jews on public places, kidnaps newspeople and tortures them, cuts out the tongues of dissidents, steals billions in aid money while starving 5,000 kids to death each month...and he's just like America! Gee, and then the Mayor and his stooges can't figure out why people think his resolution is anti-American. Go figure...
"BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME...WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT *YOU* THINK OF ME...
Did you hear the litany of pathetic questions at today's CENTCOM briefing from terrified and outraged reporters? Chemical weapons--whatever. Torture chambers--who cares? The primary issue on the minds of the press is what the U.S. military is going to do to protect THEM?
The reporters don't care if Iraiq Republican Guardsmen are hiding in their studios (see above) or sniping at Marines from the hotel room above their own. They just want to make darn sure nobody puts a bullet through their last can of Aqua Net. Dead soldiers are unfortunate, dead civilians a tragedy. But dead reporters? That is something that cannot be tolerated!
I especially loved the questions which implied that, without the intrepid journalists swilling hotel bar gin in their expense-account suites, there would be no honesty account of America's warfare. The journalists gathered seemed to question whether or not the war should even be allowed to continue without the reporters' adult supervision.
Well, my message to the Marines is, if somebody shoots, shoot back. If you can avoid civilian injuries, fine. But if you have to shoot a civilian, try to make it a cable news reporter.
If you can make it Geraldo, the drinks are on me.
But the award for most vile, ignorant boobery must go to the Reverend Vice Mayor Delores McQuinn who, among her many offensive blatherings in support of the resolution, commented: "I don't really see the difference between [America] and Saddam Hussein. Killing is killing. We aren't more innocent than he is."
Nothing I can add to these wackos comments to make them seem any dumber.
The Democratic Propoganda rag a.k.a. Richmond Times Disgrace disgracefully didn't print this story though, I wonder why?
Unless the war is being waged by a Democrat president, right libs? War is always wrong, unless it's Klintoon in Kosovo.
The utter hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the Left is astonishing. They'll condemn this war and then defend the war in Kosovo in the same breath, and they're completely unaware of how they contradict themselves. They don't think and they don't reason. They're just programmed like automatons, and trying to get through to them is worse than breaking through a brick wall.
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