Right-wing bloggers Michelle Malkin and Little Green Footballs have launched vicious attacks by claiming that we on the left, who they refer to as “ghouls”, are planning “parties” when the US casualty rate from the war in Iraq reaches 2000.
Via LGF:
The American Friends Service Committee is planning to hold a series of parties all across the country when the 2000th US soldier is killed in Iraq: Not One More Death. Not One More Dollar.
They support the troops…by partying over their deaths.
Sick.
But it’s par for the course.
I’ll tell you what’s sick and ghoulish, you ignorant fucking right-wing liars: linking to the American Friends Service Committee site which is calling for people to hold candlelight vigils and protests the day after the death toll reaches 2000 in order to show support for the troops and calling those events “parties”.
We shouldn’t be surprised by these slimy right-wing bloggers though. They’ll obviously do anything to support their dear leader and his warmongering – including disrespecting the soldiers who have died and the friends and families who mourn them.
You want a fucking party? Just wait until your beloved administration goes down in flames, and it is going down – make no mistake about that. Then we’ll show you what a real party is and you and your kind can go slithering back to the swamp from whence you came.
Now that I got that out of my system, here’s how you can participate in the planned events:
Soon we’ll be reaching another horrific milestone in the war in Iraq – the death of the 2,000th U.S. service member. AFSC, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace, and Iraq Veterans Against the War are calling for people across the U.S. to stand up and say that the needless killing of U.S. troops and Iraqis must stop and that the resources funding this war are needed for other things.
Events to mark the 2,000th reported U.S. military death will range from candlelight vigils to public actions that illustrate the size of the death toll. Here in our “Not One More Death. Not One More Dollar.” campaign center, you will find supporting materials and suggestions for designing an event that meets the needs of your community.
The Iraq War has already committed us to aiding a generation of veterans and their families and to rebuilding Iraq.
We need to meet these just obligations and stop the funding for further destruction so that our resources can be used to strengthen our communities and help those in need.
We’re asking that you think along these two lines:
Public actions at congressional offices, federal buildings and other appropriate spaces with 2,000 representations of the lives lost.
This could be 2,000 candles, 2,000 gold stars, or 2,000 placards with the name, rank, age and home state of each casualty with a photo of a pair of boots. We also ask that you find ways to recognize the tens of thousands Iraqi deaths. (Boot placards, star patterns, signs, and other materials are available in the resources section.)
Sign the call to Congress to end funding for the war and work with other organizers in your state to carry the message to your legislators in the month after the 2,000th reported death of a U.S. servicemember. (Further legislative information will be forthcoming.)
You can find more information, along with a list of events planned in your area, by visiting the American Friends site.
Yes…that’s right…I swore…in public. It takes a hell of a lot to make that happen but the words of these assholes are just unbelievably low.
Once again, the republican spin machine is in full force. ATTACK! WITH LIES. It is up to the leftie blogs to set the record straight and tell the truth. Eventually the truth will set us free.
OT…Did anyone see Dean this morning on THhis Week? He rocked and told the truth. Called the administration liars and corrupt. He was really on top this morning. One of the best Dean interviews imho, since he became DNC chair.
FREEDOM.
It’s got to become obvious at some point that BUsh is in fact a traitor who is intent on destroying America in a perverse way. He emotionally hates America….the America of his father. like Bin Laden he wants the world to become fundamentalist.
So this is my 180 on the right. They say the left celebrates the deaths of “soldiers” that they have in fact intentionally sent to their death for the purpose of bringing fundamentalism to the whole world.
Oh Hell, Catnip, et al, we must just laugh at the likes of these ppl. We all know they are vey sick and mentally disturbed. I have known this for a very long time. I put as much faith in their bru ha ha as as would a snake, which of course they are.
Real ppl know the difference as to the truth vs. all the lies. I find it very funny now how the kind of republicans that are funning for their lives in commentary nowadays. They are simply sick puppies. Do they really take themselves seriously!!??
Do they really take themselves seriously!!??
They do and that’s what’s scary.
“I’ll tell you what’s sick and ghoulish, you ignorant fucking right-wing liars…”
So many things could follow this line. How about having our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles over there in the first place. Or having Saddam as a former ally in the war we paid for with Iraq, or…
And about the Friends, remember Malkin may think all Quakers are like Nixon, so her misinterpretation is understandable.
Those sick fucks.
ARRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
should be presumed to be a lie.
This is what I said in response to a dKos diary questioning MoveOn.org’s motives about the “ghoulish” 2000th death watch. I think I would say the same thing to right-wing nutjobs:
“Sending people to war to die for a lie, while the general population sits on their ass and does nothing, and while slightly more than 50% of the country re-elects the liar, is fucking ghoulish.
Protesting these things, in any way, is noble and American.”
These neo-fascist zombies can’t tell the difference between a vigil and a party, evidently. It’s kind of like accusing the bereaved at a funeral of partying to celebrate the demise of the departed one.
I almost have to admire the consistency of the neo-fascists, tho. From top to bottom, they hold the same beliefs, wear the same blindfolds, suffer identical intellectual deficits. Like their Dear Leader, they are perpetually “misinformed” about the most basic realities. Like their Dear Leader, they now reveal that partying is the only way they know to interpret any human activity because it’s the only activity they’ve ever managed to accomplish. Like their Dear Leader, they love to yap about supporting the troops, while at the same time doing everything they can to make sure many more of them are killed and wounded for nothing — and then trying to peddle their murderous intent as patriotism.
I’m not sure it can be called malice, Catnip. The neo-fascists are the best that they can be. They can’t do any different, any more than mold spores can decide to quit making rot out of everything they touch. It’s just their nature.
I would be outraged except my Outrage meter pegged in 2000 and broke during the summer of 2004.
I guess truth and good faith is collateral damage of the Culture War. Screw these people. We have been expecting Conservatives to critize these attacks for decades. They won’t do it!
I predict: On Monday I predict Tush Limpblah will run this in the first 30 minutes of his program. William F.(uckhead) Buckley, Jr. will write one of his patented obfuscating persfilage columns deploring the AFSC in polysyllabic incomprehensiablity. The Washington Times will scream about the “disrepect” to the troops.
Fuck these people & the tanks they invaded Iraq with.
when it’s Dick Cheney and Halliburton that are dancing on the freshly dug graves.
I will spend the day after the 2000th death at a local church, praying for the souls of those who have died…if the right-wing fools want to see this as a “party”, so be it. I recommend that they join me to pray for their own souls, and the souls of this misAdministration, for when they reach the Judgement Seat of God, they will have to look into the faces of all those young men and women and finally answer the Great Question: “WHY???”
Extreme sicko lunatics like Malkin and her ilk really, in the end, have nothing to say. Even monitoring them as a way of tracking the wingnut propaganda trajectory is not worth it because she, along with other notable lunatics like Coulter, Hannity, Horowitz, the LGF gang, the 3 stooges at Powerline, and many others, are just too nuts to be relevant.
Sure they’ll attract and retain a following of fools whose ignorance their rhetoric will weaponize, but, like Coulter, Malkin’s insanity has taken over her psyche and she will spin out of control completely very soon. The real Repubs conservatives will disown her just as they’re starting to do with Coulter, and she’ll wind up being just another fringe looney who had her brief moment of fame before her pathology dragged her back into the muck from which she emerged in the first place.
They’re not sick!
Reprehensible maybe, but not sick!
By saying this most outrageous slander of a fine service organization with a sterling record of service to the public is a calculated and cynical move to: 1, get the Bushevik talking point out that “they” don’t like opposition to their war; and 2, it gets every notable blog on the left in an uproar.
I see Malkin and Charles grinning and saying, “Mission accomplished.”
Left blogs outpull right wing blogs in terms of hits by huge margins. Kos alone is nearly equal to ALL right wing blogs combined in terms of hits, by day, week or month. Add Atrios, Digby, Billmon, and maybe Swopa, and you do exceed all right wing blogs combined in hits!
The cons are getting us to do their work.
So, what to do?
Hold the vigil anyway. AND, join Freewayblogger in putting up either “2K…Why?” or “2000 Dead….Why?” stickers and signs everywhere you can.
Bush lied, and the troops are dying because of the lies. The right can’t spin that beyond what it says. America was fooled and its children are dying because of those lies.
From the book of changes (I-Ching)
Hexagram 62:
Hsiao Kuo / Preponderance of the Small
Thunder on the mountain:
The image of Preponderance of the Small.
Thus in his conduct the superior man gives preponderance to reverence.
In bereavement he gives preponderance to grief.
In his expenditures he gives preponderance to thrift.
Is hard to determine. Is it a) THE LIES THAT GOT US INTO A WAR THAT HAS KILLED 100,000+ AND CLIMBING? Is it b) that we have people in this country WHO MAKE A LIVING TELLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT IT IS THE PROTESTERS WHO ARE WRONG! Or is it c) that WE HAVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THAT BS! (I always hate multiple choice) So, you tell me!
Without C, neither A nor B would be possible.
So there you have it folks! c) it is! We Have A Winner!