A Proud Nation Should Be Sorry(Mega Barf)

Los Angeles Times & Times Picayune (New Orleans) ^ | May 22, 2003 | By Norah Vincent

[jrushing]

A Proud Nation Should Be Sorry
by Norah Vincent
Link only for fear of copyright.

[jrushing]

I was shocked to read this in my local newspaper, The Times Picayune from New Orleans. It is in the print edition but not in the on-line edition. I do not understand why the editors would print this trash & defoul Memorial Day. This editorial was dated May 22 in the LA Times, but printed in the paper on Memorial Day locally under the title, "To the GI's, from our sorry country."
Times Picayune
Email: letters@timespicayune.com

[Lecie]

You need to read this commentary again. It's not defaming the military. It's giving Hell to some of the inept politicians (read liberals) running lose in DC and elsewhere who have held the military in disdain for years.

[Michael.SF.]

I printed this out for a later read. I think I will go back to smoking the ribs, have a beer and check on the Buttermilk-Raspberry Pie in the oven. No sense losing my appetite after all that good cookin.

[zarf]

I think you missed the point. It's a slap at The Defense Dept and State and the White House for not having a better plan post war.....

A pretty gutless article if you ask me. Seems like a Democratic attempt to walk the tight rope of praising the military while not directly trashing a popular president.

If the author had any balls, she'd call a spade a spade and lay it out there for all to see.

Alas, she only has ovaries.

[Lecie]

I reread it myself and I will admit my mistake. Having finished the second, and more careful reading, of the commentary, I believe the writer to be off base.

[Theresawithanh]

Yeah? So what about these comments from the article?

"In short, we're sorry, as our hokey president himself might have put it, that you rushed to Baghdad only to be left holding the bag.

"We're sorry that our hardy-har commander in chief dropped like the dopiest of deus ex machinas onto the deck of an aircraft carrier and used you for the cheapest of all cheap photo ops."

I'm sorry too, sorry that I read the article.

[jrushing]

You need to read this commentary again. It's not defaming the military. It's giving Hell to some of the inept politicians (read liberals) running lose in DC and elsewhere who have held the military in disdain for years.
I think that you're somewhat correct about this. I did agree with some of her points but think the overall tone of the column is anti-American. It's like the, "I'm against the war but support the troops" comments.
The headline in my paper read "To the GI's, from our sorry country".
This plus printing it on Memorial Day set me off more than the article!

[nothingnew]

The headline in my paper read "To the GI's, from our sorry country".

This plus printing it on Memorial Day set me off more than the article!

I won't read the articles, but from what I see here, just offer the libs another shovel, brand new, 'cause I think they're wearing theirs out.

FMCDH

[bigghurtt]

I am also sorry. Sorry that the most powerful, successful nation in the history of earth is represented in it's cultural realm by self-loathing, arrogant, completely ignorant, blind fools. Sorry that the precious freedom of speech that myself and my miltary brethren fight to protect is too often speech free of value, understanding or true gratitude.

I am sorry that a miltary composed of people who overwhelmingly supported this war privately have been made the poster children these supposed intellectuals flaunt as part of their reason for opposing the necessary risks that must be undertaken. I'm sorry that a college-educated journalist could describe a people that have been freed from a 30-year despotic, murderous regime as no better off than they were before their liberation.

I am sorry that in the land of the free there are those who would have that freedom denied others, if only to advance their own petty agendas.

I am sorry that I don't have the right as a miltary member to stand and tell the world how proud I am of my President and my GOP representation.

Above all, I am sorry that those things that my brothers and sisters have died for are the very things our enemies within use to attack us.

[Michael.SF.]

You need to read this commentary again. It's not defaming the military. It's giving Hell to some of the inept politicians (read liberals) running lose in DC

I think his first read was essentially correct. This is a MAJOR BARF article.

It was nothing more then a slam piece against Bush, who is insulted numerous times in the aricle.

These people (Leftist's hiding as supporter's of the military)cannot stand the fact the war in Iraq was executed brilliantly, virtually to perfection.

Now they try to say we did not plan or prepare for the post war period. They know better then to slame our Military personnell, but dammit, they have to slam somebody.

Scumbags, that is all they are.