You have your Ted Kennedy moments, as in this Hot Air video, then this moment below. Which moment would you want to define your America during a time of war?
Kennedy is promising to introduce a bill that would block funding for a force above the current numbers unless Congress approves Bush’s plan.
jaime, your Dr., called, they turned down your sex change. Better luck next time, looser.
Posted by: Cindi | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 01:30 AM
George C. Scott as Patton was always great cinema.
And a great message for any generation of Americans faced with an intractable foe.
Posted by: seekeronos | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 02:13 AM
You are comparing speaks by a US senator, elected by the people of his state, expressing the views of a significant number of people outside his state to an actor giving a speak to a movie. I assume that you would rather have a movie actor represent American views than a real, live, elected official. You would choose scripted fantasy over the messy reality of the diversity of views that is the real America. My son is in the Army fighting in Ramadi Iraq and putting his life on the line for this country every single day. He says that they tried watching a few war DVDs but not any more. The reality of their daily lives includes all the war they want to experience. For those who think that an escalation of this war is the way to go, how much real war have you experienced?
Posted by: carolh | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 10:48 AM
Interesting. For one, I congratulate you for raising a fine son to fight for his country.
On the other hand... can you not realize that a season of inconvenience which prevents a lifetime of threats and terrors is worth the cost? Had our ancestors turned away from the challenge of beating Nazism and Japanese Imperialism... we would certainly not be able to comment against unpopular policy the way we do now.
Islam is the threat of our generation, and it MUST be defeated.
Posted by: seekeronos | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 12:07 PM
My father served in the Navy in WWII and my grandfather served in the Navy in WWI. My BIL is a retired Navy Captain, my neice is in the Air Force and has been deployed to Qtar and my nephew is in the Army and has been depolyed to Afghanistan. Please don't lecture me about turning away from wartime challenges. I would accept a "season" of "inconvenience" is it truly made us more safe, but the war it Iraq has only made us less safe. Saddam was a brutel dictator but he was no fan of Islamic fundamentalist. If then end result of this war is a country in close alliance with Iran will be really be in trouble but that is one likely outcome. Also, I object to you calling this war a "season". My son is 21 and this war has been going on for 4 years, or 20% of his life. That is hardly a "season". Also, for the soldiers fighting this war and for the Iraqi people it is not an "inconvenience" it is life threatening and like altering. Only those not directly involved would call in inconvenient.
Posted by: carolh | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 01:52 PM
As I said, my son is stationed in Ramadi, capital of An Bar province. I just saw this in the Washington Post:
"Two American soldiers died yesterday from wounds sustained while fighting in Anbar province in western Iraq, the U.S. military said today.
One soldier was assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group. The other was a member of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, according to a military statement.
The statement gave no details about the incidents. The names of the deceased soldiers are being withheld by the military until their families can be notified."
My heart stops when I read the first paragraph and I breath again when I read the second. Fortunately, he is not in either of these units although he does go on missions with the Marines so it is possible he knew one of the dead. I am happy for my self, my husband, my daughter, and my son's young wife, but I know somewhere in this country another family is devastated. I do not think they would describe it as "inconvenient."
Posted by: carolh | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Bush will not get his 20K extra troops. Why? Because he and the rest of the republicans are irrelevant. Kind of like you. Stick to Natalee Holloway updates.
Posted by: Carl | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 03:48 PM
The speech in the movie is based on a actual speech given by Gen. Patton. I have been in Iraq off and on since March of 04,I have lost 5 very good friends over here and Afganistan, I was in Desert Sheild/Storm and made a combat parachute assault into Panama to kick another tinpot dictator out of power before that.
If I had a choice between Gen Patton or even George C. Scott portraying the late, great Gen and that drunken, blowhard Senator from Mass who is a leftist at best. I'd take the General!
Now I salute those folks here who have children in the service. The only way to get them home is to untie our hands and let us get out there and kill the hell out of the terrorists. Because if we don't kill them here, my children will have to kill them in the States....cause they plan on bringing the jihad to YOUR STREET if they can win here.
I have to go on duty, so you can can run your cakehole and talk about the latest poll. Here is another clue real leaders LEAD, they don't worry about popularity polls and they make hard, often unpopular descions based on the facts as they see them. They don't quit when the going gets tough. We lost over 5000 men on the 6th of June 1944. We didn't get back on those transports just because we suffered horrible casulities, thats what the bad guys want...us to just give up and run away.
An Army NCO who is disgusted with the public
Posted by: "Ranger" Ross | Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 11:24 AM