Shameful reactions to Haditha 'atrocity' (re Free Republic)

[RadiDem]

"in my last week's column, I highlighted the massacre of innocent men, women and children, carried out by up to a dozen Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha. In it, I quoted Representative John Murtha, a highly decorated ex-Marine, who is distressed at the unprovoked attack.

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"In the meantime, my column had been posted on a well-known right-wing American website (Free Republic), where it attracted 119 comments. Oddly, none of them displayed any hint of disquiet over the behaviour of the Marines under investigation. Rather, their outrage was reserved for John Murtha and yours truly. One poster's reaction was to "nuke the Middle East" adding "thank you very much Dishonourable Rep. Jack Murtha". He was later to write "if you can't stand behind our troops, stand in front of them"

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If the public, as represented by the 119 posters on the Free Republic website, condones such behaviour or seeks to excuse it, then not only is its members giving their country's soldiers a license to kill arbitrarily, they are altering the fundamental psyche of their nation. To quote a well-known rationalist intellectual Felix Adler "Love of country is like love of women - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

The "Freepers" - as members of the Free Republic website have come to be known - may also like to contemplate the words of theologian Howard Thurman who said "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism." In short, people who glorify soldiers who purposefully assassinate women and small children are as misguided as those who glorify the blowing up of crowded buses, trains and marketplaces."

http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10043346.html

[Terran1212]

1. Freepers are not entirely sane

They are the jingoist element who just walk by the flag as long as its killing.

[Skittles]

10. freepers are sick, deluded bastards

they can all go to HELL

[Selatius]

2. They're very much like terrorist supporters in that respect

I hope this article forces them to look hard in the mirror, but I doubt they have one that isn't broken.

[stepnw1f]

3. They are the American Taliban

everybody they dn't like, must die or suffer for them to feel at peace, which will never happen.

[muntrv]

4. Freepers are the same ones who, when Paul Wellstone died

in a plane crash, wished that Ted Kennedy was on that flight. If you ask any of them if they'll enlist in the Army, hardly any of them will do so.

[cdb]

5. It is a "war on Islam"

It doesn't matter about innocence. The less of "them" there are the more the racist ignorant fucks like it. It isn't murder unless you worship jeeezus.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Ms. Heard should rest the assured

. . . the people at Free Republic do not represent the American people.

[Redstone]

7. Those fucking cowards. Those cowards.

If any of them had actually been in combat, they'd not...I can't finish the sentence.

My revulsion for the "keyboard commandoes" is beyond description. Sorry, that's the best I can do.

Redstone

[rasputin1952]

8. But you hit the nail on the head...they will never put their boots on

the ground whenever there is a fight. They want everyone else to fight...but when it comes to a sacrifice from them...forget it.

They are, and always have been cowards to the extreme. Who is that little punk that has his own radio show talking up the war and bush???? Randi Rhodes asked him when he was going to join on an TV one day, and I thought the little bastard's head was going to explode....:D Randi said, "I served in the AF for 4 years, you can't put your monet where your mouth is?".

Just like Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly and a host of other jackels, they are simply cowards...they take their cues from bush, Cheney and the other Chickenhawks...:puke:

[Redstone]

9. "Let's you and him fight." That's their motto.

Redstone

[DemoTex]

11. Freeper point totally moot: "No Defense for the Indefensible"

Freeper-types tried to defend My Lai-4, too. Again: No Defense for the Indefensible. End of story.


Q: And babies?
A: And babies.

[acmavm]

12. Freepers are cowards who advocate killings and war crimes while

hiding safely in their homes behind their computer screens.