The Commie News Network never disappoints, and yesterday, true to form, CNN reported another leftist trashing the administration — overseas — in a story headlined Ex-CIA boss: Cheney is ‘vice president for torture’, in true tabloid style.
This is starting to get old fast. First we had Kerry, who held himself up as a “war hero” and couldn’t work in the phrase “band of brothers” enough into his speeches, to give his “peace now and let the terrorists bomb us” platform some sort of validity.
Then we have Murtha, whose “inconsistencies” (ahem) were conveniently ignored in the MSM (ahem). The Dems and MSM held Murtha up, disingenuously, as a “hawk” and this was supposed to lend credence to his “cut and run” speech.
And now we have Stansfield Turner, whose status as an ex-CIA chief is supposed to again give some kind of “patriotic” status to slandering the Vice President.
What you may not remember is that Turner headed up the CIA under Carter. This is significant, because Carter and his liberal Democrat Congress did everything in their power to gut the CIA — and Turner helped.
“Torture is beyond the pale. It is going too far,” he said.
Well just like all the other moonbats, Turner fails to identify this “torture” that’s supposedly happening. I assume he probably means making them listen to Christina Aguillera, or wear paper bags over their heads.
The thing is, however, this pattern. Democrats put forward some sort of “war hero” or “hawk” or “ex-CIA chief” as if that all by itself changed the nature of their anti-war stance.
Get a clue, dems. Your “let’s run with our tails between our legs so France will like us” stance is the problem — not the credentials of who presents it.
After all, Benedict Arnold was a war hero.
Hat tip to Curiouser and Curiouser.
Linked to Don Surber , Stop the ACLU, Cao’s Blog, Bob Krumm.
Michael says:
Here’s another bio of a man who was a decorated veteran of the United States Army, having served in the Gulf War, where he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal. He had been a top scoring gunner with the 25 mm cannon of the lightly armored Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division to which he was assigned. He served at Fort Riley, Kansas, before Operation Desert Storm. His superiors and friends thought of him as a model soldier. At Fort Riley, he completed the Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC), an Army school to train young Sergeants.
His name? Timothy McVeigh, terrorist who exploded a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, OK on April 19, 1995 - a blast that shook the building I was working in some eight miles away at the FAA Aeronautical Center. He was captured, tried, and convicted, sentenced to death, and on June 11, 2001, he was executed for his crimes. Just because you served in the military, honorably, or even gallantly, as McVeigh did to get the Bronze Star, there is no special waiver that grants you for later actions you may take which are non-heroic, unpatriotic, or just plain cowardly. Hell, Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy’s assassin, served in the Marines.
November 19, 2005, 4:01 pm