Supercritical Irony Concentration, Part 4(a)

[tongodeon]

Addendum to yesterday's analysis of Bush's Veterans Day speech.

The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges.

This didn't leap out at me yesterday, but today I was listening to Dan Bartlett on the Jim Lehrer News Hour who hammered on the point strong

Comments

[tongodeon]

Doh. You caught me right as I was saying "that last sentence is an overly broad generalization. better make it say 'political crime'."

Although, to be honest, do you think that First Lieutenant Drinkie McAWOL never trespassed on a military base between 1968 and 1974?

[drieuxster]

how can one trespass on a place that one did not go to?

and as americans know, the month after the Foto's of HanoiJane siting on the NVA AAA gun came out in america, some folks decide NOT to show up for their flight physical, so as not to retain their flight status....

and then we get to the problem, how exactly DID you want to differenciate 'political crime' from merely those that are capital crimes in 'a time of war' for which folks are simply sent out to the firing squad?

[drieuxster]

dude, first off, you MISSED the Mother of All Coolie McCainisms - the fact that he was the Manchurian Candidate who would do the bidding of the Hanoi Regime - a Real Giggler as you may recall watching Rumsfeld get chummy with his Hanoi Regime Counterpart who is also hip to the need to deal with the war on terrorism, as there are still some vietnamese who think that the failure of the Hanoi Regime is disgraceful.

What Can I Say, there is that strange moment trying to work out the issues as one learns that NFL line grunts who got dropped on the Floor during the Tet '68 Fiasco so that NVA regulars could bug out, well, got the shaft from the Hanoi Regime that didn't recognize their service during the Great Patriotic War....

So if you are going to whine about the current round of reckless, baseless, and false thingusOfPooh that are wandering around, just keep repeating to yourself, Memory IS TERRORISM
and keep repeating it Memory IS TERRORISM
until the pain goes away.

[swingland]

rock on