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Columnists like George Will should stand up for our military instead of Bush

by Open-Publishing - Friday 1 December 2006
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Governments USA Mary MacElveen

Columnists like George Will should stand up for our military instead of Bush
By Mary MacElveen
December 1, 2006

When George Will of the Washington Post had this to say of Senator-elect James Webb as Webb tried to avoid President Bush at all costs, “Webb certainly has conveyed what he is: a boor. Never mind the patent disrespect for the presidency. Webb’s more gross offense was calculated rudeness toward another human being — one who, disregarding many hard things Webb had said about him during the campaign, asked a civil and caring question, as one parent to another. When — if ever — Webb grows weary of admiring his new grandeur as a "leader" who carefully calibrates the "symbolic things" he does to convey messages, he might consider this: In a republic, people decline to be led by leaders who are insufferably full of themselves.”

Senator-elect James Webb had this to say, "I’m not particularly interested in having a picture of me and George W. Bush on my wall. No offense to the institution of the presidency, and I’m certainly looking forward to working with him and his administration. [But] leaders do some symbolic things to try to convey who they are and what the message is." It was not a “patent disrespect for the presidency” as Will asserted of Webb’s actions. Also Bush’s support of our military has only been that of symbolism. In fact, I see no support what so ever only the blatant use of our military for his self-serving needs of greed and power.

Will stated that it was Webb who had a “calculated rudeness towards another human being”? What hubris. In the eyes of many any calculated rudeness comes from President Bush himself as he patently lied to the American people sending our troops into harms way.

Let us speak of grandeur and ones that are insufferably full of themselves. On May 2, 2003, it was non-other than President Bush himself that flew onto the U.S.S. Lincoln in a fighter jet donning the uniform he had no right to put on in the first place. He used that opportunity as a photo-op holding little regard for our men and women of the armed services. One has to wonder how many of those aboard the Lincoln that day have died as a result of President Bush’s actions. Did he see our troops as being human then and does he see them as being human now? I would post that picture of Bush within this piece, but he is not deserving of it. I do not give respect towards liars.

When President Bush directed this statement to the insurgents “Bring em on” what precipitated after that was an increase of our casualty rate. It was as if he painted a bull’s eye on the backs of every soldier serving over in Iraq. As of this date, 2888 soldiers have died as a result of Bush’s lies. What respect should be shown to a president for taking the lives of our military personnel? In fact, I would call it rude and disrespectful to have banned the pictures of our soldiers coming home in coffins to their final resting place.

The parent, Bush cannot even begin to understand the concern that is going through parents such as Senator-elect James Webb as each day; a thought may enter his head that it may be his son’s last day here on Earth. How dare George Will even write that within his column. Why doesn’t he write a column demanding that Bush send his daughter’s Jenna and Barbara who have been partying in Argentina over to Iraq? Then and only then, Bush just may understand what parents such as James Webb are going through.

I blinked in disbelief as George Will wrote this of Webb, “He already has become what Washington did not need another of, a subtraction from the city’s civility and clear speaking.” Perhaps there has been too much civility when it comes to the handling of Bush and his administration. They have received far too many passes and our soldiers have paid with their lives. Innocent Iraqis have also paid with theirs too. Many have suffered the horrible affects of depleted uranium and white phosphorus and it is at that time, no civility should be given this president.

As an American citizen, for once, I want someone that has the courage to speak their mind on the side of morality when we as an American people only see immorality. Washington, D.C. for far too long has been the very bedrock of immorality and it is about time we see some true morals restored.

There is no morality to be seen when you see babies so horribly disfigured for the rest of their lives due to the affects of depleted uranium. Those disfigurements are not only felt by the Iraqi people, but soldiers who come home and go on to procreate. Yes, I have seen those pictures and it is about time we have some leaders with guts stand up to help stop this madness.

During Katrina, when CNN’s Anderson Cooper was interviewing Senator Mary Landrieu, instead of addressing what was going on, she was using this precious air time thanking this elected official and that elected official. It was at that point, Anderson Cooper pretty much blew up and said he had enough. After all, he was sent there to cover this story and saw the dead bodies float by him on a day-to-day basis.

As this civil war continues to escalate over in Iraq where some fear it will cause the eruption of the entire Middle East, it is about time that journalists such as George Will stop coddling and protecting President Bush. He (Bush) is the cause of this eruption. Bush squandered what good will we had post 9/11 and has turned many against us by invading Iraq. One only has to see the reactions world-wide when Bush has traveled abroad. He is met with violent protests. The world knows the truth of Bush and why Will does not get it, I do not understand.

http://www.marymacelveen.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/1/2541585.html

Forum posts

  • Again and again and again, Ms. McElveen pays way too much attention to these mainstream mouthpieces who have the audacity to call themselves journalists. Ms. McElveen, these ’journalists’, such as Bill O’Riley, Chris Matthews and George Will, are in reality parasitic whores and their opinion about anything that matters in this world shouldn’t be considered in any honest American’s perspective on politics or economics whatsoever.

    You should avoid them like the plague. They are ALL morally dishonest as well as being intellectual light weights who wouldn’t know how to follow a Boolean algebra table if their very lives depended on it. Why would any decent, intelligent American listen to someone who so obviously believes in a monarchical presidency like this over-rated, phony conservative talking head named George Will? Do you really think if George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were still alive that they would be listening at all to these mindless, sycophantic yahoos who don’t give a good goddamn about our nation but just so happen to make a mint publishing & selling their diarrhea to the brainwashed masses?

    You really need to get out of the mainstream media’s take on any FUCKING THING.
    For real honest and intelligent ANALYSIS, not this irrational blather that the US mass media spews out like an out of control sewage dump, go to the following links:

    Google: Asia Times, Lew Rockwell, Anti-War.com, UK Guardian, In These Times, the American Conservative,
    Common Dreams, Truthout, Iraq Veterans against the War, Jeff Rense, Consortium News,
    Tom Paine. The list is endless. And yes, I’ve given you websites that many people will consider to be coming from both the ’left’ and the ’right’, but after making a habit of reading articles by honest and very bright analysts all coming from different perspectives you will see what I’ve seen: that the terms ’left’ , ’centrist’ and ’right’ are as bogus as any of the terms our duplicitous and treacherous mass media uses to keep us throttled, stifled and ignorant, such as ’War on Terror’ and ’fighting for democracy’. What vomit inducing crap these assholes get away with!

    Those we allow to control our language eventually end up controlling our thoughts and our very lives.
    FYI: If you haven’t read any of George Orwell’s great works of literature I highly suggest you start reading him NOW.

    • "Ms. McElveen pays way too much attention to these mainstream mouthpieces who have the audacity to call themselves journalists."

      Au contraire, 66 28, my fellow faux fan of the dribblings of Ms MacElveen. If the fair maid from the hinterlands of Long Island had done her homework, she would not have been so quick to spout, "...it is about time that journalists such as George Will stop coddling and protecting President Bush," since the pedestrian and Johnny-come-lately Mr. Will has become a member of the Bush Bashing Club, and has recently taken some serious shots at Dubya et al. I place in evidence - are you paying attention, Mary? - two links to Will pieces wherein he takes Jr., et al to the cleaners - in so far as he is capable of making that trip by himself, now that others - not of the MSM - have long ago shown him the way. (Sorry for the tortured sentence - but it was "penned" in the MacElveen spirit.)

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15460708/site/newsweek/

      http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv4n3.pdf

      PS: Keep them coming, Mary. You’re a real pip!

    • I pay attention to these main stream media outlets is because the majority of Americans do watch and do pay attention to what these folks have to add to our political discourse. Not everyone is as enlightened to read the publications that you mentioned. I am not writing articles to preach to the chior but to reach out to others.

      Mary MacElveen!

    • "Not everyone is as enlightened to read the publications that you mentioned." - Mary MacElveen!

      I never thought I’d see Newsweek referred to as "enlightened" reading, but if one lives long enough, anything is possible.

      Gotta luv ya, Mary!

      PS: Please edit your stuff (clear ideas expressed in simple prose.) In this superficial society, packaging is as important as the product. I mean it, sincerely.

  • Hear, Hear. Right on Mary. Keep up the good work and tell the truth on’em. They can’t stand that.