Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard on Fox: Dead U.S. Soldiers Are Okay... Because They're Volunteers

[kpete]

Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard on Fox: Dead U.S. Soldiers Are Okay... Because They're Volunteers

This is the kind of content we have to look forward to as Fox prepares to launch the Fox Business Channel. From this past weekend's "Forbes on Fox", the panelists just got done answering the ludicrous question of whether the uptick in the stock market was a "major" victory over Al Qaeda (because clearly a bull market is the best way to avenge 9/11) and then the conversation went even further off the rails as Fox News contributor and Forbes Magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard ([e-mail]) asserted that the deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq wasn't so bad because, hey, they volunteered to serve their country.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/07/forbes-publishe.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Sure, it's really not so bad, especially to someone who will never

serve in the military, much less in Iraq, and probably doesn't even know anyone who will serve. Not to mention the fact that he's making a lot of money in the stock market right now, apparently due, in part, to the war. This is typical chickenhawk thinking.

[lies and propaganda]

2. try serving and making ignorant people understand this..

this is NOT what the soldiers volunteered for!

i THANK GOD for what happened to me in the AF to get me out right before the Chimp stole the office. Because I volunteered to defend my country and continue a family tradition. Sure as shit not to line the pockets of the already rick and blood/oil covered.

[tabasco]

3. Republicans say: "They vounteered - FUCK 'EM!"

This is how they support the troops.

[Phredicles]

5. Hell, I've heard this from on-line apologists claiming to be veterans;

that was what convinced me they were lying.

[tabasco]

6. Key word - - "claiming."

Just like real life, the internet is full of fraud veterans.

There was a purported vet on this board comparing war casualties to traffic accident victims. Somehow, I think it was a phony.

[JAYJDF]

4. No surprise. My very religous sister already told me that one. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. He's actually calling them "Suckers" - kind of a caveat emptor mentality applied to the military

[Fuzz]

8. I've heard a variation of that one in person