The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed my letter about Webb and W!

[Efilroft Sul]

Letters to the editor

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Sen.-elect Webb had every right to respond as he did

Your newspaper's criticism of Sen.-elect Jim Webb, D-Va. ("Respect the Office: A New Senator's Rudeness to Bush Is Unacceptable," Dec. 4) smacks of Beltway mentality.

When President Bush approached Mr. Webb and asked him how his son was faring in Iraq, Mr. Webb should have politely responded, "He's fine, sir. And have your twin daughters recovered from their hangovers after celebrating their 25th birthdays in Argentina?"

Mr. Bush and his "good German" Republicans lied their way into this failed war of choice. Their children aren't on the front line like Jim Webb's son is. And until they are, all talk of "sacrifice" coming from any Republican who voted for the Iraq war resolution rings hollow.

Jim Webb has every right to be fed up with Mr. Bush and his family of barstool warriors.


ROBERT B
Peters

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06339/743535-110.stm

[indepat]

1. Bravo!

[9119495]

2. Nicely done. I have this feeling many are taking some

time off from writing letters so good of you to do the work.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Webb should have said

"Why don't you ship your daughters over to Iraq and find out for yourself how my son and the other soldiers are doing?"

[Eric J in MN]

4. Good Germans phrase

I can't seem to find a definition on Google.

But I associate the phrase with people who neither advocate nor oppose horrible policies, rather that legislators who vote for horrible policies.

UPDATE: Bob Somerby uses the the term "Good German" for a columnist who belittles war crimes, and so maybe I'm wrong and you used the term correctly.


http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh062205.shtml

WATCHING A GOOD GERMAN FUNCTION: In this morning’s Post, Mark Leibovich helps the public process their important first lesson. Here’s the way he describes the matter on which Vile Durbin made comment:

LEIBOVICH (6/22/05): Durbin's saga began June 14 on the Senate floor when he read from an FBI memo that described the ordeal of a prisoner at Guantanamo who was allegedly chained to the floor, forced to listen to loud rap music and subjected to extreme heat and bitter cold, among other unpleasantness. Durbin said: "If I read this to you and did not tell you it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others—that had no concern for human beings."

Good boy! The key term there is “among other unpleasantness.” Like all good Germans, Leibovich knew to disappear the conduct which made this report so disturbing. Post readers won’t have to hear how long these prisoners were “allegedly” chained. (Note: Leibovich has gone from the plural to the singular, pretending we’re talking about only one prisoner.) They won’t have to learn that these prisoners were chained so long that they urinated and defecated on themselves. They won’t have to hear about that pile of hair—the pile one prisoner pulled from his head. Good boy! Leibovich knows how “mad regimes” work their will. Here it is: They keep the folks stupid.

Good boy! Mark Leibovich played good German today. He helped that first lesson go down.

[tanyev]

5. "Barstool Warriors"

:applause::applause::applause:

[uberllama42]

6. I can't stand that College Republican mentality

The ones on my campus seem better than others, but it's still a despicable way to think. "It's a worthy cause, but I have better things to do than go off into the desert and get my ass shot off. It's okay for some poor minority kid, though. That's just the sacrifice we're going to have to make for our freedom."

It insults the honor and courage of all those who have put their lives on the line to protect us. How many people signed up to protect us from terrorism after 9/11 and ended up getting shipped to Iraq to fight Bush's war of lies and provoke countless further acts of terrorism?

[Botany]

12. Welcome to DU

BTW you can print out Military enlistment forms online and
post them where the College Repugs meet.

[peace13]

7. Thanks for this. Great job! n/t

[Doctor_J]

8. Nice

:thumbsup:

[wicket]

9. Great letter

K & R

:kick:

[AlinPA]

10. I read it with my breakfast this morning. Your letter was my dessert! Thanks.

[Captain Hilts]

11. Nice! I read the PP-G ed. page regularly. nt

[oasis]

13. Excellent response. k&r

[frylock]

14. that is some top-shelf smack!!

Barstool warriors? Good German Republicans? I'd like to buy you a beer!!

[immoderate]

15. Congratulations! Well struck!

--IMM

[dae]

16. Great letter, and two new phrases for me to use.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!:yourock:

[BR_Parkway]

17. K&R for "barstool warriors" along, but the rest of it was great too!

[myrna minx]

18. Excellent letter!

Barstool warriors! :rofl:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. Sorry about the letter underneath yours

boy what a sorry pile of _ that was. Yours was great.

[Catchawave]

20. Very nice indeed !

Congratulations :hi:

[Tippy]

21. Great Letter n/t

[RamboLiberal]

22. Great Job - I saw your letter in the PG

Glad it's from a fellow DU'er. Well said!

[Justpat]

23. HaHa!! well done! n/t

[Efilroft Sul]

24. The P-G got flooded with letters supporting Webb today

It ran 6 letters supporting Webb and 1 supporting Bush.

I don't know what the hell the P-G was thinking. They're much better than that.