{"id":15840,"date":"2009-11-30T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15840"},"modified":"2009-11-30T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:25:24","slug":"tah-exclusive-michael-moore-still-a-blithering-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15840","title":{"rendered":"TAH Exclusive: Michael Moore still a blithering idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the love missive sent to my email this morning:<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear President Obama,
\nDo you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do — destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, really? The worst thing he can do is destroy the hopes and dreams of you and your followers? I don’t remember seeing your name anywhere on my ballot, so when were you elected to give voice to us again? I can think of several things worse that destroying the hopes and dreams you had, like for instance destroying the hopes and dreams of little girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school to learn without worrying about having vials of acid thrown in their faces.<\/p>\n

It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That’s the way General Washington insisted it must be. That’s what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. “You’re fired!,” said Truman, and that was that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in’ hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought redemption).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two things on this passage. <\/p>\n

1) “WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do”? Really? Where is that in the Constitution? I know the President can, but “WE”? You are telling me that George Washington set up a system of government where any fat piece of shit from Flint Michigan can just walk up to the Joint Chiefs and tell them what to do?<\/p>\n

2) we love the troops, but not the generals. Ok, when do they go from us supporting them to us hating them? Is it when they put on that first star? Or is it a graduated scale, where we really like the E1’s and really hate the O10’s, and everywhere in between is slightly different? And you know that guy you held out in part 1, that Washington guy, well, I don’t want to confuse you, but he was a general. Yeah, no shit, go look it up.<\/p>\n

Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So before it was the hopes and dreams of the millions who put him there, now it is the corporate backers?<\/p>\n

Dude, you truly are a fooking idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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