Pulitzer
for vile, childish diatribes, Sherwood Ross at Counterpunch:
… Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq except the same now bereaved parents of the murdered students at Virginia Tech?
It’s not that some of them voted to elect George Bush. Anyone can be deceived, particularly by a notorious liar. But when the president broke the law and invaded Iraq, violating the UN Charter, how many of them protested? Today they are upset that a young, crazed gunman has ran amok on the campus of a peaceful university, but where were they when President Bush defied the United Nations and ran amok in Iraq? Do they know, as Amnesty International reported on the same day as the Virginia Tech murders, the Middle East “is on the verge of a massive humanitarian crisis” because three-million Iraqis have been “forcibly displaced” by the war the grief-stricken Mr. Bush began? Who do the American people think made this humanitarian crisis in the Middle East if not the American people?
The same parents who weep for their children might consider that they and their neighbors are also spending a half trillion dollars a year so that the Pentagon, just over the horizon from Virginia Tech, can wage a war that is snuffing out the lives of children of other parents just like their own. Thousands of Virginians work for the military-industrial complex. They work for the Pentagon. They work for defense contractors. They work for the Central Intelligence Agency. They are in the business of killing directly or indirectly, yet how many of them are haunted by the consequences of their “jobs” in their dreams at night?
The rest here, if you need more. h/t Pajamas
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:19 am Comments (39) on Thursday, April 19, 2007
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April 19th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Apparently Sherwood Ross is a spiritual twin to Cho Seung Hui.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Ross is also looking for attention. But I’ll agree with you, Rebecca. The only difference is that Ross is using a keyboard to hurt people, instead of a gun. Clearly, he needs the same sort of medical help that Cho Seung Hui needed.
Despicable doesn’t begin to describe that walking bag of pus.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:20 am
The War Bush Started ended 4 years ago…the War AlQueda started rages on….
But then Ismail, the bastard son of Abraham…never did get over being banished to what is now Arabia.
If anyone is to blame…it is Abraham.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:39 am
One crazy thing is that “tragedies” like this and 9/11 become the Christmas trees from which people dangle their hang-ups. “Too much gun control! Too little! It was the video games! Where are the real men? Why aren’t kids safe? Don’t call them kids, and don’t infantilise them! It’s Bush’s fault.” Even the use of the word “tragedy” is condemned as too passive, too neutral: “Al Qaeda didn’t inflict a ‘tragedy’ on America; they slaughtered nearly 3,000 of us.” I’ll confess to the last hang-up–and apply it to the VTech massacre, as well. There’s plenty of background, but the lede of the story is that a sick, crazy, twisted, evil SOB took a gun (two) and blew away 32 people. I could wish for a thousand things to have been different, or to change today. But they won’t alter the decision made by this individual to do what he did that day. On his partial stump of a head be it.
Bloodthirsty Liberal
April 19th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Hey, if my first name happened to be Sherwood, I’d be a hated filled psycho, too.
Come on Sherwood, get all of that hate of yours to agitate your sick, sick mind.
Let the bile build up to the point of dropping your pens, pencils and keyboard, buy two pistols and clean out, Counterpunch. Show what you are made of, for once in your poor pathetic life. Do it Sherwood. Do it.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I have not gone to jail to protest the war machine…
Shockingly, here in Bushymcchimphitler’s AmeriKKKan Theocracy…no one has.
What an asshat.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
So America’s share of the responsibility for the carnage in Iraq is…zero?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Speaking of zero. May have mentioned this before…but. The Japanese had an aircraft named after your family, zero…err, mmm alphie.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
The Alphtard leaps in again with impeccable non-logic and glorious non-sequiturs!
ALL HAIL THE ALPHTARD!!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I agree, it is kinda silly to say that America bears no responsibility for turning Iraq into a charnel house, Jeff.
What do figure, we bear 50% of the blame,maybe?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
The only difference is that Ross is using a keyboard to hurt people, instead of a gun. Clearly, he needs the same sort of medical help that Cho Seung Hui needed…
Cho started revealing his initial and growing paranoia with a keyboard also. I’ve been anticipating some irrational Bush Hatred fueled incident for a few years now. Ross is just one of a deep well of candidates and enablers.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Alf and Sherwood have much in common: an obsession with Iraq and a hatred of America.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
And they both share severe cognitive dissonance, Rebecca. Darn near terminal, in fact.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Maybe we just lack the right teacher, Jeff.
Care to share with the class why nothing going on in Iraq is America’s fault?
Good intentions, maybe?
April 19th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I just poked through your blog alphavictim, and you seem to think America is good for little more than bashing. My impression is that you aren’t an American. Why would you care whether your low opinion of America is shared by it’s citizens? It would seem you’d focus your efforts at disseminating your opinion agreement on your own countrymen.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
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April 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Anyone who questions the administration’s policies “hates America,” Oldtymie?
Did you feel the same way when Bill Clinton was The Decider?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
I’ve looked through both posts of OldManTyme.
No where do I see “hates America,” that you can quote. You truly are detached from anything resembling, reality, zero.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
You aren’t unique in bashing America independent of what administration is in. Many other foreigners feel as you do, alphavictim, and did when Bill Clinton was president also. I don’t see why we should care.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Well, we probably should care what Iraqis think of our foreign policy, OMT.
Unless you consider it as an American colony, of course.
I still havent seen the mechanism the pro war crowd uses to absolve America’s guilt in what is happening in Iraq offered up here.
If it’s not “good intentions” what is it?
April 19th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
You should care about what the Iraqi’s think of your country’s foreign policy concerning them just as we care what they think about ours. I still don’t see why the people of this country should care what you think about our foreign policy concerning Iraq unless you are from Iraq.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Well, OMT,
I think our foreign policy is moronic….and I vote.
In every single election.
If we’re out of Iraq before November of next year, Rudy Giuliani’s got my vote.
If not, hello, President Obama.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
It’s great that you vote in all your elections, but why whould we care whether you think your foreign policy is moronic any more than we care what you think of ours? Obama and Giuliani care whether people from this country vote for them, not whether people from other coalition member countries would vote for them.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
I see THE ALPHTARD adds misleading questions and goal post moving to his latest flurry of non-sequiturs.
THE ALPHTARD is a dishonest debater, never seeking to understand, only to annoy and harrass as a form of “intellectual enlightenment”. Thus, any debate with him is meaningless.
THE ALPHTARD has decided what the world is like, and how it shall be. No matter that his grasp of history, politics, and facts is tenuous at best, nor that his analysis is filtered through his bias and prejudices. THE ALPHTARD has decided, and thus it shall be.
But smacking him around can be fun…..if you don’t take guy seriously.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Me and 60%+ of the American voting public will be quite happy voting for Democrats next year if you wingnuts can’t come up with a single rational argument for keeping our troops in Iraq, Jeff.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:32 am
And if 60%+ of the American voting public will be quite happy voting otherwise? Do you just jump on any ol’ bandwagon? Are you even capable of seeing individuals? What a simple world your collectivism presents for you. Dangerous, but simple–like your own self.
Notice that the number one victim–like Cho and Sherwood–look at the world from their own script and are incapable of seeing that anything else might be going on in the world that has nothing whatsoever to do with said script? It is all about them–as victims, as guess they would know. Blinkered buggers.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:03 am
THE ALPHTARD calls for a rational argument, but never offers more than random comments, assertions, and tangental questions rather than a “rational argument”, let alone an alternate plan.
In this, THE ALPHTARD perfectly mimics his mentors, the Dhimmicrats, such as Horrible Harry and Nattering Nancy, who do little more than sputter and stammer, and sell America to terrorists.
ALL HAIL THE ALPHTARD!!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Me and 60%+ of the American voting public will be quite happy voting for Democrats next year if you wingnuts can’t come up with a single rational argument for keeping our troops in Iraq, Jeff….
Let us worry about the 60% of the American voting public. Who you vote for counts in your country, not this one.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:29 am
President Obama. What a sad joke.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Actually, Alf is out to hijack threads, and he’s been quite successful lately. Stop giving him what he wants, or resign yourselves to wading through his droppings.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Mr. Bingley, I can’t decide which is sadder: President Obama or President Clinton.
The only good news should be that those two would never run together. There’s too much ego involved.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:17 am
“…if you wingnuts can’t come up with a single rational argument for keeping our troops in Iraq, Jeff.”
To keep right on killing Islamist terrorists, be they al Qaeda, Baathists, or Mookie’s Mouthbreathers, at the rate of about twenty to forty of theirs for every one of ours they get, and to do it there instead of here. Next moronic, goalpost-moving question.
Oh, and “President Obama”? ROTFLMAO. Your delusions are truly comedy gold.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Not really out to “hijack” threads, Reb.
In this case, I was just curious how some people can think America has no responsibility for what’s going on in Iraq.
That is the topic of the original post, isn’t it?
Nobody provided an answer, so I have to assume it’s another faith-based opinion until I hear otherwise.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
No, that wasn’t the topic of the thread. That’s part of the explanation of why no one was interested in your comments. The other part is that you still haven’t explained why we should be interested in explaining America’s responsibilities to a foreigner unless you’re from Iraq.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
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April 20th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Let’s look at the first sentence of the original post, OMT:
“Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq except the same now bereaved parents of the murdered students at Virginia Tech?”
Looks like a topic to me.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
That isn’t the topic, that is the quote the topic makes reference to. The topic is the quoted person’s childish and vile politicizing of a tragedy by making an absurd connection. English is probably your second language and that’s the reason you’ve been having difficulty understanding what the topic is. This still begs the question of why we should care what a foreigner thinks about how we’re handling Iraq.
April 21st, 2007 at 4:32 am
Sherwood Ross is an absolute idiot (i.e. a leftist)…obviously.
Enough said.
April 21st, 2007 at 4:34 am
“Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq…:
The people who are actually doing the killing…nitwit.