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FIFTH COLUMN WATCH
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| 11/13/03
| Andrew Sullivan
Posted on 11/13/2003 2:01:23 PM PST by swilhelm73
FIFTH COLUMN WATCH: How can one express adequate horror at Ted Rall's latest rationalization for murdering U.S. and allied troops. Check out this column, written as a memo to Baathists and terrorists now killing Americans - and published on Veterans' Day:
It is no easy thing to shoot or blow up young men and women because they wear American uniforms. Indeed, the soldiers are themselves oppressed members of America's vast underclass. Many don't want to be here; joining America's mercenary army is the only way they can afford to attend university. Others, because they are poor and uneducated, do not understand that they are being used as pawns in Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s cynical oil war. Unfortunately, we can't help these innocent U.S. soldiers. They are victims, like ourselves, of the bandits in Washington. Nor can we disabuse them of the propaganda that an occupier isn't always an oppressor. We regret their deaths, but we must continue to kill them until the last one has gone home to America... In this vein we must also take action against our own Iraqi citizens who choose to collaborate with the enemy. Bush wants to put an "Iraqi face" on the occupation. If we allow the Americans to corrupt our friends and neighbors by turning them into puppet policemen and sellouts, our independence will be lost forever. If someone you know is considering taking a job with the Americans, tell him that he is engaging in treason and encourage him to seek honest work instead. If he refuses, you must kill him as a warning to other weak-minded individuals... To victory!
After 9/11, I was roundly criticized for daring to suggest that there were some people in America who wanted the terrorists to win. But if you read Ted Rall and others, there can be no mistake. There is a virulent strain of anti-Americanism in this country. Some, like Rall, are now urging the murder of American troops in defense of Islamist terrorists and the acolytes of one of the most brutal dictators in history. Ann Coulter couldn't invent something this depraved. That's where parts of the left have now come to reside. It's as sad as it is sickening.
TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; tedrall
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To: swilhelm73
Ted "The Swimmer" is the very picture of depravity.
To: swilhelm73
When I first read the full column by Rall I just shrugged. There is so much evil and anti-Americanism in the world that it's hard to get outraged about all of it. I'm glad Andrew Sullivan hasn't lost his sense of outrage.
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:07:12 PM PST
by
68skylark
To: 68skylark
OMG!!
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:10:37 PM PST
by
Dog
To: swilhelm73
The thing that is so smarmy about the Rall column is that it's written in the voice of an Iraqi terrorist. Rall and others can say, "Hey this isn't really me talking -- this is the perspective of an Iraqi extremist. I don't really believe all this -- I just want my readers to know the arguemtns that average people in Iraq are hearing."
So he can write the most hateful and treasonous things -- and invite Americans to agree with his writing -- without taking any responsibility for the words himself.
It's a sick and devious kind of cleverness.
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:19:34 PM PST
by
68skylark
To: sheik yerbouty
I would pay to see a matchup of this treasonous punk with one of our Special Forces soldiers.
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:19:56 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
(Dump Wesley Clark.....he worries me as much as Hillary!)
To: swilhelm73
Ted Rall....anagram....Tall Red.
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:22:11 PM PST
by
Consort
To: 68skylark
Ted Rall is the epitome of the dunce who just doesn't understand islamofascism at all, and instead insists on projecting his own stale marxist justifications and motivations.
He proves the point that conservatives have been making almost from day one of this war: that there ARE some leftists so consumed with hatred of the West and its leading light, the United States, that they will crawl into bed with the most vile fascists and religious bigots imaginable.
The opportunism, hypocrisy and shamelessness are nauseating.
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:33:02 PM PST
by
borkrules
To: borkrules
I've never heard of Rall before today. For that I count myself lucky. I hope I never hear of him again.
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posted on
11/13/2003 2:35:49 PM PST
by
68skylark
To: swilhelm73
I think the full Rall column was posted here at the freerepublic. But now it seems to be gone.
Maybe the moderators thought we couldn't handle it, or maybe it just got moved somewhere where I can't find it now.
To: 68skylark
I saw that the other day, but the moderators deleted it with the explanation that Rall's columns were not welcome on FR.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:06:29 PM PST
by
91B
(Golly it's hot.)
To: swilhelm73
the election of 2004 is going to pivot on just these issues.Dubya is going to need all of our keyboards/emails/letters and voices to win.
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posted on
11/13/2003 4:42:26 PM PST
by
mo
To: HardStarboard
You can be sure Rall will go into hiding.
To: HardStarboard
I would pay to see a matchup of this treasonous punk with one of our (non-muslim) Special Forces soldiers.
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posted on
11/13/2003 5:17:17 PM PST
by
tubavil
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To: gpl4eva
I was trying to say that it's devious to for a writer to write the worst kind of anti-American invective while taking cover behind an imaginary persona. Sorry if I wasn't clear about what I was trying to say. I'm also sorry that I don't quite understand what you're trying to say with your post -- can I ask you to elaborate please?
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To: Yehuda
No, he's a real jihad leftist.
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To: Yehuda
Won't happen stateside, but if only this P.O.S. could be lured into Iraq then he could be arrested for publishing or distributing columns like this, inciting violence and terrorism. (The CPA allows the Iraqi press complete freedom excepting this proviso.) How wonderfully satisfying it would be if Rall could be hauled off to an Iraqi jail, where he would be, uh, "looked after" by the very "collaborators" who's murder he's called for and approved!
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11/14/2003 2:36:38 AM PST
by
Stultis
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