tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5147000415127454560.post8518727645328326622..comments2023-12-09T12:13:00.212-08:00Comments on AOL Journals 1st Old Hickory's Weblog: Legionaires Disease II is already speadingBruce Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022449143502020665noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5147000415127454560.post-11050320118525369882005-08-28T16:58:00.000-07:002005-08-28T16:58:00.000-07:00Myers commits the sin also of engaging in partisan...Myers commits the sin also of engaging in partisan politics, not a role the top brass are usually permitted to play in our system. I think it would have been scandalous and have resulted in his firing had he gone to Cindy Sheehan's side and spoken in support of her opposition to the war. So why is he permitted to speak before the American Legion encouraging their political activism in support of the President's war in Iraq?<br><br>In my opinion, Myers is a craven brown-nosing bureaucrat who is unfit for command. All the top brass have been silent in public about the need for more Troops and better equipment in Iraq. Why? Because they would rather sacrifice the mission, and the Troops, than risk the ire of George W Bush.<br><br>Abu Ghraib is not the only sin that will one day be laid at Myers' door. He and Franks and Sanchez and Abizaid will all face the judgment of history and be found wanting.<br><br>Neil<br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5147000415127454560.post-89086774121922943652005-09-27T03:10:00.000-07:002005-09-27T03:10:00.000-07:00Maybe the senility and dementia isn't the problem ...Maybe the senility and dementia isn't the problem of the Lgionaires. Try looking in the mirror before your delusional dementia totally takes over. Ever thought about the possibility that wisdom developes over time and through the process of experience, and those that have put in the most years and experienced more, just might possibly have gained some.<br><br>I will put my praises to those that have fought to promote and spread freedom and democracy throughout the world in order to preserve ours. You might take a look at those behind the scenes supporting the antiwar movement and you might find your associating with some rather unpleasant company that hate freedom and democracy. Lie down with dogs and your bound to get fleas.<br><br>Put Cindy in jail and keep her there for treasonous acts! Congress did declare war and the laws to do this are in place already. My take is Bush is too lenient and should follow in Woodrow Wilsons footstep and start enforcing those laws.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5147000415127454560.post-78250650425188153572005-09-27T12:58:00.000-07:002005-09-27T12:58:00.000-07:00Two points:A large majority of the American public...Two points:<br><br>A large majority of the American public, 67% in a recent Gallup poll, disapprove of Dear Leader Bush's performance on Iraq. That means you people who support Bush's Iraq War policies are a minority of Americans, barely a third, actually.<br><br>The point about the VFW leadership's position has nothing to do with how many of them "fought for freedom" in the past, whether it was 100 years ago or last month. The point is that the leadership was encouraging vigilante violence against *peaceful* protesters expressing a *majority* opinion. With the Chairman of the JCS shamefully there to lend his own implied support.<br><br>So whatever those VFW members who support this position may have fought for in the past, they're fighting for something very different than freedom and democracy in America now.<br><br>I noted this past weekend, though, that with upwards of 200,000 people protesting the war in Washington and thousands of others doing so all over the country, that I haven't heard any reports of anyone being inspired to follow the VFW's suggestion and assault the protesters on behalf of the small minority that supports Bush's Iraq War. You normally have to *pay* goons to do something like that.<br><br>But for all the big talk, not many of these more-patriotic-than-anyone-else VFW zealots turned out for the PROwar events on Saturday (150 people) or Sunday (400 people) in Washington. Rather these rightwing fools supporting the assault-the-protesters positions should hold off on the phony macho posturing until they can at least get a couple of thousand people to show their face in public to say they SUPPORT Bush's war. - BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com