[Peace-discuss] Closed military area?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

The Carolinian obviously thought Obama was lying and said so.

Obama has been observed betimes to prevaricate
thus it is not absurd to suspect an untruth.
After all Obama's lips were moving,
so the probability of gross misrepresentation was significant.

Any person that would have more respect for any man
than for the truth is not fit to serve the people.

The vicious attacks on free speech by the Obots are really going way 
over the top.

The truth is that they don't give 42% of a Ripe Red Rat's Rump about 
decorum, but
only about partisan defending of their crumbling champion.

I note that the crowd calling for Joe the Presbyterian's head on a 
charger is the same bunch that thought it was
pretty damn funny when one of the Iraqi hombres tried to zap W with dos 
Zapatos.
Now they're all bueno bueno dos zapatos.

Joe Wilson might not have had his facts straight but he expressed his 
dissent and his opinion.
 From my view neither a verbal outburst nor a flung pie nor a sharp kick 
to the cods would have
been out of order, considering.

Applause or dissent should be equally welcome.

Dissent defines Democracy.  I doubt that equal time was to be provided,
so the outburst is not all that unreasonable.  The reaction is certainly 
unreasonable.

Why the question is about Decorum and Procedure rather than about
benevolence and care defines something about this bus.




On 9/10/2009 4:37 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [This apparently is not conscious satire; it's rather something that 
> the liberal blog Huffington Post thought appropriate to publish 
> today.  I found it so disturbing that I had to go lie down and read 
> the classic science-fiction novel Starship Troopers, by Libertarian 
> avant la lettre Robert Heinlein...  --CGE]
>
>     BREACH OF DISCIPLINE
>     Major General Paul D. Eaton
>     Posted: September 10, 2009 12:17 PM
>
> Retired Colonel (Representative) Joe Wilson's conduct last night is a 
> breach of military protocol and represents a further departure from 
> the historic good order and discipline I expected, in the past, to see 
> from the GOP, pre-conservative talk show entertainers. Recent GOP 
> performers have proven embarrassing to the New Republican Party.
>
> As a retired Soldier I expect better from our Soldiers, to include 
> South Carolina National Guardsmen. But, those rallying in the 
> blogosphere to Wilson's defense claim that he has reason 'to be 
> stressed out' because he has children in the military. Interesting 
> defense.
>
> Fully one third of Army General Officers have sons and daughters 
> fighting in our Armed Forces. Every parent whose children are serving 
> -- as all three of mine are -- can respect the strain retired Col. 
> Wilson might be feeling, and thank him for his sacrifice. Yet I would 
> never expect to hear anything but the greatest respect for the elected 
> President of the United States from these men and women, regardless of 
> their political persuasion. 'Stressed' or not by having military 
> doctors and intelligence officers in the family.
>
> I would also highlight Colonel, Retired (Professor) Andrew Bacevich 
> who has proven a brilliant communicator on behalf of men and women 
> critical of those incompetent warfighters who have handed off serious 
> military dilemmas to President Obama and his administration. Colonel 
> Bacevich lost his son in combat in Iraq a few years ago, and I doubt 
> if the good Colonel would ever embarrass the United States Army or 
> Armed Forces as did Colonel Wilson.
>
> I expect Minority Leader Boehner to police his ranks and help get his 
> GOP colleagues back into a regimen of good order and discipline.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/major-general-paul-d-eaton/breach-of-discipline_b_282136.html 
>
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