Redstate: Iraq Just Like Occupying... Alabama
Posted by Michael Link on April 9, 2008 at 04:22 PM
If I were to make a list of places that have some sort of connection to American presence in Iraq -- places that were remotely similar -- somehow I don't think the US being in Alabama, and the South in general, would be anywhere on that list. It's hard to even begin where to start. Luckily, Blog for Our Future takes a stab at it:
Today, RedState sent an email alert to readers to further push the point ... making a, shall we say, novel argument (emphasis added): "Clearly McCain was talking about a peace time standing presence ... Someone should ask the Democrats if they think we're still at war with the confederacy, the Germans, and the Japanese given all the standing American armies in the South, Germany, and Japan." As I said in my previous post, 'Claiming a 100-year occupation in Iraq would be like Germany or Korea reveals an immense lack of foreign policy knowledge, judgment and vision.'
But then again, it makes about as much sense as John McCain's talking point about how being in Iraq for 100 years is just fine, because there will be no casualties.
Updated by Matt Ortega: Today marks the 143rd anniversary of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia and effectively ended the Civil War. (The confederate states were readmitted back into the Union during Reconstruction, so any "standing" 'Union' armies in the South are not occupiers...)
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Michael,
I think these RedStaters have hit on something.
If so many Republicans in the South still consider the Confederacy their true government, why not finally offer them the chance to sucede?
Perhaps we should close all American military bases in the South as it apparently pains these Confederate Republicans so much to have American soldiers in their midst?
How many Sothern Congressmen and Senators (plus those patriotic hate radio hosts) would start wearing Confederacy flag pins if given a chance?
Heaven knows, enough of them wore fake Purple Hearts at their last presidential convention. Have they been wearing their American flag pins all these years under protest? And do they really support the troops of the United States of America?
Just how patriotically-challenged are these Reagan Republicans?
Posted by SandyH on April 9, 2008 at 05:25 PM
OK, I went all the way to the site to read this RedState email, and I have to say something. The editor who wrote this email is named Erick Erickson. I suppose that someone with a name like that was probably brought up in a household that didn't value thinking very much. I mean, his parents couldn't even vary the spelling of his first name a little.
But, secondly, and more importantly, is the idea that McCain is proposing an unending catch-22. American troops can't leave until they aren't being killed or wounded, but they can stay forever once they're not being killed or wounded. WTF kind of policy is that?
Posted by margotb822 on April 9, 2008 at 05:38 PM
OK, I went all the way to the site to read this RedState email, and I have to say something. The editor who wrote this email is named Erick Erickson. I suppose that someone with a name like that was probably brought up in a household that didn't value thinking very much. I mean, his parents couldn't even vary the spelling of his first name a little.
But, secondly, and more importantly, is the idea that McCain is proposing an unending catch-22. American troops can't leave until they aren't being killed or wounded, but they can stay forever once they're not being killed or wounded. WTF kind of policy is that?
Posted by margotb822 on April 9, 2008 at 05:39 PM
Just how patriotically-challenged are these Reagan Republicans?
Posted by SandyH on April 9, 2008 at 05:25 PM
I think mentally challenged is a more accurate descriptor.
Posted by margotb822 on April 9, 2008 at 05:41 PM
Comments like this one prove why at any given time, you will find RedState is down to about 3-4 Bloggers anymore! Check out their blog and see number of comments under ANY of their mis-informed, distorted threads! Losers, all of them!
Posted by PamB on April 10, 2008 at 08:51 AM
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