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Ramo
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Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:29
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What Kos had said about it:
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There's been much ado about my indifference to the Mercenary deaths in Falluja a couple days ago. I wrote in some diary comments somewhere that "I felt nothing" and "screw them".
My language was harsh, and, in reality, not true. Fact is, I did feel something. That's why I was so angry.
I was angry that five soldiers -- the real heroes in my mind -- were killed the same day and got far lower billing in the newscasts. I was angry that 51 American soldiers paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly in Iraq in March alone. I was angry that these mercenaries make more in a day than our brave men and women in uniform make in an entire month. I was angry that the US is funding private armies, paying them $30,000 per soldier, per month, while the Bush administration tries to cut our soldiers' hazard pay. I was angry that these mercenaries would leave their wives and children behind to enter a war zone on their own violition.
So I struck back.
Unlike the vast majority of people in this country, I actually grew up in a war zone. I witnessed communist guerillas execute students accused of being government collaborators. I was 8 years old, and I remember stepping over a dead body, warm blood flowing from a fresh wound. Dodging bullets while at market. I lived in the midsts of hate the likes of which most of you will never understand (Clinton and Bush hatred is nothing compared to that generated when people kill each other for politics or race or nationality). There's no way I could ever describe the ways this experience colors my worldview.
Back to Iraq, our men and women in uniform are there under orders, trying to make the best of an impossible situation. The war is not their fault, and I will always defend their honor and bravery to the end of my days. But the mercenary is a whole different deal. They willingly enter a war zone, and do so because of the paycheck. They're not there for humanitarian reasons (I doubt they'd donate half their paycheck to the Red Cross or whatever). They're there because the money is DAMN good. They answer to no one except their CEO. They are dangerous, hence international efforts (however fruitless they may be) to ban their use.
So not only was I wrong to say I felt nothing over their deaths, I was lying. I felt way too much. Nobody deserves to die. But in the greater scheme of things, there are a lot of greater tragedies going on in Iraq (51 last month, plus countless civilians and Iraqi police). That those tragedies are essentially ignored these days is, ultimately, the greatest tragedy of all. |
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/2/175739/8203
Yep, he sure is a left-wing equivalent to a fascist. 
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Jaguar
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Montgomery County, MD
Apr 2000
time: 00:29
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Originally posted by GePap
were does he mention the Holocaust, exactly Diplo? I see a jesus referrence, but not a holocaust one (no, mentioning Hitler is not the same as saying Holocaust).
OH, and repugs, as the proud party of mosts ex and curtrent Klan members should really not get too huffy about Byrd, unelss they want the hypocrasy meter to explode.
But yeah, the dems need to get the sante back so they can kill judicial nominations the old fahisoned way, by never allowing them out of committee, like how the republicans killed endlessly more judicial nominations under Clinton. So, come on dems, lets get back the senate |
Posting while drunk 
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Ramo
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Austin, Texas, USA
Oct 1999
time: 23:29
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I don't know, but most of the CP stuff is quite well written, apart from the translated material from other sources.
Anyway, CP is too middle of the road. |
Some of it is good, but some of it is crap. The problem with CP is that it doesn't discriminate between between the good and the crap well enough. ZMag, Guardian, Nation, etc. do that much better.
I'd consider CP a progressive/radical (socialdem, socialist, anarchist, commie) magazine. I don't see that as a problem in any way, just saying that it's not representative of the Dems.
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