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But, who cares, right? This is the same jackwagon that prank called Governor Walker and tried to get him to say something stupid. Governor Walker is such a great guy that he didn’t bite into any of his silly liberal tricks.
Warning! Below the cutline is a lot of profanity. I wanted to share something that Ian Murphy posted at buffalobeast.com, but it’s very vulgar and offensive. However, it’s imperative that people see what kind of guy he is. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are thugs, criminals and lowlifes in the military. Thankfully, they are a minority. Murphy doesn’t think so. By clicking to read more, you understand you aren’t going to like what you read.
FUCK THE TROOPS
A Beastly OpinionBy Ian Murphy
So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo fucking hoo. They got what they asked for—and cool robotic limbs, too.
Likely, just reading the above paragraph made you uncomfortable. But why?
The benevolence of America’s “troops” is sacrosanct. Questioning their rectitude simply isn’t done. It’s the forbidden zone. We may rail against this tragic war, but our soldiers are lauded by all as saints. Why? They volunteered to partake in this savage idiocy, and for this they deserve our utmost respect? I think not.
The nearly two-thirds of us who know this war is bullshit need to stop sucking off the troops. They get enough action raping female soldiers and sodomizing Iraqi detainees. The political left is intent on “supporting” the troops by bringing them home, which is a good thing. But after rightly denouncing the administration’s lies and condemning this awful war, relatively sensible pundits—like Keith Olbermann—turn around and lovingly praise the soldiers’ brave service to the country. Why?
What service are they providing? I don’t remember ordering 300,000 dead Iraqis—although I was doing a lot of heavy narcotics back in ‘03. Our soldiers are not providing a service to the country, they’re providing a service to a criminal administration and their oil company cronies. When a mafia don orders a hit, is the assassin absolved of personal responsibility when it’s carried out? Of course not. What if the hit man was fooled into service? We’d all say, “Tough shit, you dumb Guido,” then lock him up and throw away the key.
As a society, we need to discard our blind deference to military service. There’s nothing admirable about volunteering to murder people. There’s nothing admirable about being rooked by obvious propaganda. There’s nothing admirable about doing what you’re told if what you’re told to do is terrible.
We all learned recently that the Bush administration instituted its policy of global torture during quaint White House meetings. And we already know this war was started with lies. Shame on them. But what about the people who physically carry out these atrocities? We’ve seen bad apples punished and CEO despots walk free, but all verbal and written denouncement is focused on our leaders. Surely, they deserve that and more—decapitation, really. But why can’t we be critical of the people who have actually tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens? We deride private contractors like Blackwater for similar conduct—why are the troops blameless?
Take John McCain, or “McNasty,” as they called him in high school. While the conventional wisdom says that Obama gets a pass from the media, McCain is clearly the least scrutinized presidential candidate. He diddles lobbyists, sings about bombing Iran and doesn’t know Shiite from Shinola, yet he remains unscathed, cloaked in his Vietnam “hero” legend.
Again, what is heroic about involving one’s self in a foolish war, being a shitty pilot or getting tortured? Yeah, it must have sucked, but getting your ass kicked every day for five years doesn’t make you a hero—it makes you a Bad News Bear.
Here’s where America’s military lust becomes a true perversion. If we truly valued military prowess, John McCain would be viewed as a failure. But duty alone is enough to inspire our gratitude. Hence the left’s tendency to obligatorily praise the troops while decrying the sum of their actions. Good thing, too, because this war is unwinnable.
George Washington warned that the biggest threat to the young United States was in keeping and deploying standing armies. An overextended military is a drain on any nation—eventually it will break. It also pisses off the people your army is standing on. We’ll never heed this warning and break the cycle of violence, so long as military service is so reflexively praised.
People want to be respected. And in a country with an abysmal education system and disappearing economic opportunities, they seek respect wherever they can find it—as street corner toughs or as government-sanctioned thugs. It beats McDonald’s. But this kind of victim-of-circumstance-sympathy for the troops turns them into automatons, neither deserving of praise or damnation. Disregarding the Stop Loss back door draft travesty, they had a choice.
We’re a squeamish people; we eschew heated debates and, in principle, strive for political correctness when arguing with those who hold contrary views. The left does anyway; the right makes no such pretense. That’s one of the reasons liberals have taken such a beating in the last few decades.
As plainly stupid as religious belief or participating in immoral and illegal wars may be, the castrated left can only argue against these things by appealing to reason. In America, that fails every time. We respond best to partisan venom and ad hominem attacks.
The right has no problem painting their opponents as cowards or godless heathens, but liberals—instead of sticking to the merits of their arguments—fight those accusations by leaning right, praising god and guns, and pandering to the people who cling to them. The left has taken to appeasing bullies as their only course to victory. And that’s no victory at all.
Liberals need to start calling a moron a moron—and openly mocking that moron if his positions or actions are indefensible. Just as Limbaugh or Hannity insults the left, tilting the battlefield so liberals are left scrounging for their patriotic bona fides, the left must begin attacking stupidity whether in the form of religious nonsense, “free market” capitalism or military worship.
Instead of blowing the troops every chance we get, to prove our patriotism and insulate ourselves against attacks from the right, liberals should grow a pair and start dishing the damnation.
You can read the rest here. Yes, he goes on. No, it doesn’t get better. I’d respond further, but what’s the point? The whole thing is just gibberish from an uber-Liberal nutcase.
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Dave
Sorry soldier, but Ian’s right to say fuck the troops who got suckered into murdering foreigners for the corporations. I applaud him for saying it.
If it matters to you, I’m also an ex-serviceman. I’m lucky that I never had to kill while in uniform, and now I recognize that service in the military is nothing more than turning yourself into a lunatic. You willingly kill people without thinking about why you’re killing them. There never has been a war that was justified, ever.
CJ
Oh, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave. The sad part of your diatribe is that the lunatic is in your mirror. Seriously! Go look. You’re an idiot and I truly don’t think you left because you wanted to but because you simply couldn’t cut it. You see, the purpose of a military is to kill people. Yes, you are lucky you never had to kill anyone and I’m lucky I did! But, you’re wrong. I DID think about why I was killing them – they were trying to kill me! It’s very simple. You’re an idiot. That’s also very simple. Your last comment pretty much solidified any doubt or question about who the real lunatic is. Again, he’s in your mirror.
Jim Diehl USN 65-71
I couldn’t sat it any better than CJ so I will leave it at that..
South Park Diva
So I guess that includes the Civil War? The American Revolution? WWI and WWII? Tell that to the black population of the USA. Tell that to the liberated Jews in the death camps! Seriously? Seriously?
I think you’ll find that our military guys and gals think about this more than anyone else. And they are willing to step up and fight for you and me and everyone else.
While there is an argument to be made that not all war is justified, to make a blanket statement that no war is justified is just plain ignorant. And I’m guessing that our enemies have NO problem killing us, so I’m just glad we have soldiers willing to protect us – even mindless idiots like yourself!
Mike
Americans like you love war. It is great to be a citizen of a nation of 300 million, with a military that consumes over half the national budget and possess 8000 nuclear weapons. A nation that can invade without declaration of war nations 20,30, 40, 100 times smaller and get away with it. We attacked the Island of Grenada in 1983 (population 100,000) because the military identified it as a threat to the nation. Did the same to Panama (population 3,500,000), a nation led by a man educated and trained by the U.S. Military, using the same excuse. Since 1880 the military has been involved in 145 military operations, from killing unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee SD in 1896, to crushing a 1933 demonstration of WWI Veterans seeking their pension rights in Washington DC, to killing unarmed college students at Kent State in 1970. Each time the excuse was “threat to the nation.” And each time it was against countries and peoples incredibly smaller than the U.S. The military has been turned into an arm of political and economic policy rather than the defender of the nation. But,if it makes you happy to think you were saved from Daniel Ortega and evil Nicaragua (population 5.5 million) go ahead. And if it makes you feel really good about yourself then toss out a few liberal shots, Be my guest.
CJ
Thank you, Mike. I’ve been agonizing about attacking liberals without your permission. I can sleep better at night now knowing that you have given me the permissions I’ve so aggressively sought to justify my writing. That really is a load off my shoulders, I can’t tell you.
brat
“….doing a lot of heavy narcotics back in ‘03.” I think heavy duty brain damage is in evidence here. Really, I do!
And no, no ‘heated debate’ or otherwise, since both he and Dave are morons for buying into the mindless troops thing.
The rest of the diatribe? Wasted breath..
Beverly Perlson
There is everything admirable about serving one’s country and it is unfortunate it includes denfending scumbags like Ian and Dave. Why don’t the two of you head over to Iraq and Afghanistan and hang out with the warm and fuzzy terrorists. They might just share their opium pipe with you before they cut your head off.
Our military is the VERY BEST of America and they are loved and appreciated by those they fight for and protect!
Beverly Perlson
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AllAcrossAmerica
It is amazing how cowards like this even get their sick words copied on any form of communication. I guess it’s easy to strike out at our wonderful troops – seems communism is in lately (for about 25 months or so) but morons like this would shit in their depends if they ever lived in this Great nation without those selfless heroes that so gallantly defend her. The best thing do do when you come across a piece of shit like this author is step over it just like you do when you see a pile of dog shit in the grass.
Mary
Ian Murphy…Do you lump John Kerry into your diatribe or is it only reserved for those who actually serve with honor?
Dave
Wow, I commend you on not censoring the post. I left the forces because my contract was up. No more, no less than that.
My objection to the military is not that it exists, but that there are those who seek to worship it. It reminds me a bit to much of the cult of the soldier that existed in the Empire of Japan and the old Prussian state. You know, the states that started some of the nastiest wars of the last century. WWI was not justifiable at all, it was a war for empire. WWII was called by one of its leaders ‘the unnecessary war’, Churchill said that, and he was right to have done so. Re-read Ian’s article, you might learn something. Or if you don’t wish to do that, look to your Christian Bible, that part that mentions what happens to those who ‘live by the sword’. Or are you, like so many others, cafeteria christians?
Debbie
Dave what branch of the military where you in and when did you serve? Why did you join?
CJ
Dave, I believe in the same bible that tells me there’s a time to kill and a time for peace. After Pearl Harbor was bombed it was a time to kill. After the towers went down it was time to kill.
As for everything else you wrote, we must have been in two different militaries cause I see worship you speak of.
Steve
Why do Christians use the Old Testament to justify their action? Christ was the New Covenant. The teachings of Christ supersede anything in the Old Testament. Pope JP II even said the 2003 invasion of Iraq was unjust.
CJ
Steve, you’re not going to lecture me about religion or my Christian beliefs. My conscience is clear and I have no problem killing people that want to kill me or my fellow citizens. I also don’t believe the Bible is the only scripture out there since I’m LDS.
It’s none of your business why Christians use the Old Testament or New Testament or Book of Mormon or no book at all to justify their actions, assuming you are even right. I don’t recall ever doing that, though I could very easily.
Steve
Who’s lecturing I asked a question?
“I don’t recall ever doing that, though I could very easily.”
See your reply dated 2/27 at 4:29
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IAN,Dave and Mike
To the point your idiots. Look at some of your points. Grenada in 1983 why did we go there to over through the government of that country or was it to get ride of the Cuban army who invaded Grenada. Then you put Panama in it to. Why did we go there again it wasn’t to occupy the country. It was to oust the leader. And yes the CIA backed him but you most always correct your wrong. Ian put in the oil companies were a part of the Iraq war. Sounds good but there is two things that dont work. 1. we get the majority of our oil from Venezuela. 2.I don’t know if you checked the oil prices but the war in Iraq was not meant for the oil. Opec sets the oil prices not Iraq or the US so stealing oil idea doesn’t work. Cause the higher the price of oil the more money our oil companies make. To Dave this is from Churchill. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill. And if you ask over 2 Million Jewish people from back then if the war was necessary i think you would get a better answer then Churchill. So from me a Solider to you three go over there and hug a terrorists trust me they will give you guys a big hug back.