{"id":1988,"date":"2008-07-03T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2008-07-03T14:08:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T18:08:39","slug":"pass-the-platitudes-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Pass the platitudes, please"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got an email last night from a irate reader. It was a policy of this blog to not write about emails, but lately they’ve been getting a bit extreme – like the guy who wrote me about how I didn’t understand anything about combat but he did because he’d been a recruiter in southeast DC in the 90s.<\/p>\n

But last night’s missive was about a post I wrote early last week entitled “IVAW’s Matt Howard is a dumbass<\/a>” about one of the extremely stupid morons who told the bobbleheads at Winter Soldier that the US is disposing of it’s nuclear waste by firing it from tanks in Iraq. He went on to explain that we are “changing the human genome”. He didn’t offer any proof, just empty words. And of course, the bobbleheads did what bobbleheads do.<\/p>\n

Well, this young lady (I have to assume the writer was a woman since her email address was lotusblossom84 – either that or a guy with a piss-poor sense for cool screen names) writes that my blog…<\/p>\n

SUCKS!!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for bashing my IVAW friend, Matt Howard… Your intellect is smaller than the size of a crayon.<\/p>\n

Thanks for promoting bigotry, racism of other cultures, war violence and war crimes, Republican lies, environmental destruction, corporate American greed, hegemony and imperialism…. and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

Peace is patriotic, you fool<\/em>…
\nAnd the war on terror can never been won, simply because war is terrorism!!
\nTake your white blinders off, you Republican slug!!
\nHilary<\/p>\n

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people”
\nHoward Zinn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How many other empty platitudes can you cram into one email? It reads like protest signs piled up on the sidewalk. I’d like for the youngster to point out one post where I promoted bigotry or anything else she claims I promote.<\/p>\n

Peace is patriotic? When have I other said otherwise? Waving an upside down flag isn’t patriotic, though – in fact it’s the complete opposite of patriotism. And tell me…why my blinders got to be white, girlfriend?<\/p>\n

Yes, we should stop fighting the war against terrorists because you say we should stop and you say it can’t be won. We’ll start on that in the morning.<\/p>\n

Quoting Howard Zinn? I’d have more respect for you if you’d quoted Howard the Duck.<\/p>\n

If you’re boinking Howard (the Matt), please use protection…don’t curse the planet with what could possibly be the stupidest children ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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