Spencer Ackerman notes that the widely billed speech last week by General Sanchez is little more than perpetuation of the stab-in-the-back myth we all know and love.
Dirty Sanchez
by John Cole| 25 Comments
This post is in: Military, Politics, General Stupidity
Chris
Yeah yeah yeah, we’ve all read William Shirer ‘s Rise and Fall. We know where these sexually frustrated malcontents drift in the end.
The real issue of the day – why is Micky Kaus blowing every goat in sight?
srv
C-Span video of the incoherent rant:
rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e101207_sanchez.rm
About 46 minutes in, he says everyone in the command structure failed. But it’s mostly about telling all the editors how evil they all are.
Dulcie
We all know wikipedia has a well known liberal bias.
srv
Sanchez:
At first, it seemed like he was talking about total control over Iraq. But then it becomes clear he’s talking about total control over the US. He may not be saying it was his job to shred the Constitution, but he is saying it is somebodys.
Dennis-SGMM
Well if nineteen hijackers and one tall Saudi aren’t worth an iron-fisted jackbooted dictatorship then I don’t know what is. Sad to think that the nation that once looked both Hitler and Tojo square in the eye now takes its shoes off before boarding a plane and allows the government to tap our phones and read our emails.
Chris
And still allow a man like Kaus to blow any goat he wants, without consequences.
Wilfred
This is off-topic (but no more than goat-blowing):
Good for him, although I’m surprised he didn’t get the full Beauchamp. I guess that means the pro-war, religious right crowd doesn’t really love Jesus after all. It sure would be nice to ask him about those processings.
Tom Hilton
Yes, folks, it’s true: it isn’t the Bush administration’s assault on the Constitution that imperils democracy; it isn’t the Permanent State of Emergency, which they use to justify said assault; and it isn’t their systematic attempts to disenfranchise minority voters. No, what threatens democracy is misconduct by the press–which is to say, failure to act as a passive conduit for whatever ‘information’ the military provides.
What a sad, shriveled little soul this Sanchez guy has. Just like the thousands of wingnut bloggers who are even now parroting his talking points.
Dreggas
now wait, in a free country he’d be allowed to blow goats wouldn’t he? I mean we are talking about the erosion of individual liberty.
Zifnab
This from the General who gleefully presided over Abu Garab. Yeah, everyone who is surprised raise your hand. Come on. Don’t be shy.
Dennis-SGMM
Kaus is merely inflating undersized goats so that they will not be picked on by their larger fellows.
Sstarr
When did fighting a war become “warfighting?” It can’t be a word – Firefox is underlining it in red…
libarbarian
… and when did blowing goats become goatblowing?
cleek
John Cole made a pun on a General’s name ! alert the conservaStasi !
srv
The same time Soldiers became Warriors and starting wearing ACUs everywhere because everywhere was a combat zone.
El Cid
Or, as I call it, the Scooby Doo Theory of Warfare — “and we coulda got away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddlin’ liberals!!!
James F. Elliott
You’re all missing the point, which is that obviously John Cole likes a particularly disgusting yet oddly compelling type of porn.
The Other Steve
BTW, I want to know why John Cole has not yet commented on the fact that President Bush met with the Dalai Lama despite concerns from China that this would hurt their feelings.
This just seems so inappropriate on so many levels, don’t you think?
jcricket
President Bush is still trying to figure out if there is a Peru connection with the Dalai Lama, and if Peru might have oil. Peru is remarkably close to his new Paraguayan estate, after all. It could be really conveeenient!!
TenguPhule
I think the worst part of it was Bush actually complimenting the Lama as a spiritual leader of peace.
Few people could make such praise so meaningless.
Rick Taylor
This is off topic, but Paul Krugman keeps making sense. The whole article on Gore Derangement Syndrome should be read, but it ends:
LITBMueller
Stands in stark contrast to Sanchez’s signoff from his speech:
Praise the Lord and PASS THE AMMUNITION! yeeHAW!
HyperIon
i caught a bit of the rant last week on CSPAN. my brow was furrowed up the point where he said this. then my jaw hit the floor. it’s hard to see how anyone could come away from this “speech” with a positive impression of the general (especially knowing his part in Abu Ghraib (sp?))
he is one angry guy. why is he venting now?
jcricket
This was not me. (the real jcricket).
Brian
I don’t understand how anyone who reads the Bible would claim that Jahweh is anti-war. The Lake of Fire for the stubborn doesn’t sound like a peaceful place to me.
Heck, there’s plenty of genocide and killing and raping and enslaving going on in the Old Testmanent and new, with our Loving God not only cheering it on, but demanding it.
Plus, I’m not sure when this gentleman developed these intriguingly unBiblical feelings, but I hope it was well before he decided to JOIN THE ARMY.
(Note: I am 150% in favor of NOT joining the military, which I don’t believe has fought for anyone’s “freedom” in years. Just not sure that Christianity is an excuse for pacifism.)