Monday,
May 2 2004
BOB HERBERT SLANDERS OUR TROOPS: I was born in
1969 so I don't have any real memories of the Vietnam era, but
I always found it hard to believe that American citizens would
actually have spit on our troops returning home from Vietnam in
the early '70's. In my mind at least, the idea of disrespecting
the men and women who fight for our freedom is so despicable and
beyond the pale it makes you wonder what kind of person would
actually stoop that low.
Now I know.
Go read Bob
Herbert in today's New York Times. Read the
whole thing. I'm embarrassed and sickened that this garbage is
spewed forth to the entire world as the modus operandi of the
American military. Herbert reprints the unproven accusations of
a left-wing conscientious objector without even one qualifier
that these "incidents" shouldn't be taken as reflective
of the behavior of the honorable men and women serving in Iraq.
Instead,
Herbert uses his position as a columnist in one of the most widely
read and influential papers in the world to parrot as fact the
slanderous assertion that "gratuitous violence...is routinely
inflicted by American soldiers on ordinary Iraqis."
As
hard as it is for some of us to believe, Herbert does this because
his sole objective IS to disparage, to tarnish and to tear down
the U.S. military. J. McIntyre 9:03 am Link
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