Montana conservative attacks fallen soldier over op-ed

[Middle finga]

Earlier this week, Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance Gray, who recently co-wrote a New York Times op-ed critical of the Iraq debate, were killed in a vehicle accident in Western Baghdad. The two fallen soldiers have since been hailed for serving their country and speaking out on Iraq. But one former conservative state Senator in Sgt. Gray’s home state of Montana, Dave Rye, has chosen to attack him for the op-ed, claiming he and his fellow soldiers weren’t intelligent enough to write it on their own:

Pardon my skepticism, and certainly no disrespect for the dead Montana soldier, but in my time in the Army I never heard such a word as “recalcitrant” escape the lips of any Staff Sergeant. I doubt if it’s spoken all that much in Ismay, either. The soldiers had the help and probably the encouragement of a writer with an agenda, from a newspaper which has always had one. Its continually declining circulation now mainly consists of those who want desperately to consider themselves sophisticated as well as compassionate, even if that means always branding the U.S. as the chief villain on the world stage—in fact, especially if it does.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/15/montana-conservative-attacks-fallen-soldier-over-op-ed/

[hobbit709]

1. Then to word it in terms this repuke can understand

You are a totally worthless piece of shit.

[MasonJar]

2. That is the most disgusting piece of unattractive, unmitigated bigotry that I have

ever heard. My husband was a Staff Sgt during Viet Nam and he had 3 years at Princeton University before he left to join the Marines.I can guarantee that he knew the word recalcitrant many years before he applied to Princeton. What an ignorant "moran." The GOPers just love to come out with obnoxious statements and actions that demonstrate clearly how truly ignorant they are. The sad part is that these losers are so unremarkable in every way and do NOT even know it. How can we get in touch with him and tell him how backward he is? It is not as if "recalcitrant" is some obscure word. It is a standard word on high school (Sophomore) word lists. I should know; I teach them. Boy, I tell you....a Montana state senator, former that is....now that is something to aspire to. I am sorry that this is so disjointed, but I am so enraged with this numbskull that my original post has turned into a raging rant against PUGs.

[Forrest Greene]

3. Pure Jungian Shadow Projection

"Human society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top."

— Edward Abbey

[niceypoo]

4. Apparently this particular con believes all military non-coms are uneducated halfwits

...like most Bush supporters. Apparently this is not the case.