Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death (NYT: Frank Rich eviscerates the sissyhawks)

[Aviation Pro]

By FRANK RICH (Subscription required)

GERALD FORD spoke the truth when he called Watergate “our long national nightmare,” but even a nightmare can have its interludes of rib-splitting farce.

None were zanier than the antics of Baruch Korff, a small-town New England rabbi who became a full-time Richard Nixon sycophant as the walls closed in. Korff was ubiquitous in the press and on television, where he would lambaste Democrats and the media “lynch mob” for vilifying “the greatest president of the century.” Despite Nixon’s reflexive anti-Semitism, he returned the favor by granting the rabbi audiences and an interview that allowed the embattled president to soliloquize about how his own faith and serenity reinforced his conviction “deep inside” that everything he did was right.

Clearly we’ve reached our own Korffian moment in our latest long national nightmare. The Nixon interviewed by the rabbi sounded uncannily like the resolute leader chronicled by the conservative columnists and talk-show jocks President Bush has lately welcomed into his bunker. For his part, William Kristol even published a Korffian manifesto, “Why Bush Will Be a Winner,” in The Washington Post. It reassured us that the Bush presidency would “probably be a successful one” and that “we now seem to be on course to a successful outcome” in Iraq. A Bush flack let it be known that the president liked this piece so much that he recommended it to his White House staff.

Are you laughing yet? Maybe not. No one died in Watergate. This time around, the White House lying and cover-ups have been not just in the service of political thuggery but to gin up a gratuitous war without end.

Oh, and to Motherfucker George Bush, eviscerates means gut and guts are what you don't have. By the way, you would be the sniveling coward who gets his comeuppance during the famous Patton-slaps-soldier scene in the movie of the same. Only one difference, you, fucklick, have never seen combat and if ever confronted would curl up into a fetal ball.

[pwb]

1. Bill Kristol wore a Army First Cav. lapel pin on fox news Sunday

Says a trooper gave it to him. I guess he considers himself a combat veteran now too!! I always thought lapel pins indicated membership in an organization. Bill you are not a member of the First Team. Take it off please.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Sure, I'll bet one gave it to him.

Not

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I saw that and wondered the same thing!

Is that okay for him to wear that?

[pwb]

5. It is not an award or decoration so legally i guess he can?

Military insignia just does not look good on neocon chickenhawks. Thousands have died wearing that division patch. He has no right .

[acmavm]

3. bush** is lucky he wasn't around during WWII and went AWOL. Eddie

Slovik went nowhere. He just refused to kill. For that he was lined up against a wall and executed.

I wonder what they would have thought about pResident AWOL?

Or would they have just let him slide because 'their kind' don't fight and die in wars?

[Ian David]

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