Villainous Company

Listen, the guys been busy lately, okay? Fercryingoutloud, while y'all are over here flapping yer danged gums about something that happened almost more than FORTY-FOUR DAYS AGO, Senator Kerry has been saving the artic refuge, getting kids free health care, beating up on Donald Rumsfeld, supporting the troops, AND according to PJ O'Rourke, fighting "a low subculture and its inferior sub-media [that] are thwarting the will of the sacred mainstream!!!!"

My God, people! He doesn't even have time to check the math on his tax returns! And you want him to fill out a TWO PAGE FORM???? What happened to "caompassionate conservatism?

You're right spd. I feel really bad now.

Cao's going to love you for that one..."caompassionate conservatism"?

Might I ask a question:

Who would be worse as your reps in Congress:

John Kerry, Ted Kennedy & Barney Frank.

or

Dickie Durbin, Barack Obama & Jesse Jackson Jr.

Caopectate.

I'm in this, and I don't know. What is the Tuesday blog burst?

Frodo answers Andy's questions :

It would be interesting to have a reporter ask a group of our soldiers in Iraq to answer five questions and see the results:

1. Do you think your country did the right thing sending you into Iraq?

Yes, this entire region is benefiting from this action. Iraq is free of a cruel dictator who was torturing and executing political enemies by the thousand, the Middle East is free of a mad man with dreams of conquering the region, and the world is better off because a financier of terrorist activities has been stopped. Tell me it's a coincidence that the Palestinians are now looking for a peaceful settlement, that the Syrians are pulling out of Lebanon; that Egypt is looking to free elections.

2. Are you doing what America set out to do to make Iraq a democracy, or have we failed so badly that we should pack up and get out before more of you are killed?

We just had the only really free election in this part of the world with the exception of Israel. So, yes I think we are doing a great job here. We are also involved with helping the people rebuild their country, supplying schools, treating sick children and building the countries infrastructure … but those aren’t the lead stories on the evening news.

3. Do the orders you get handed down from one headquarters to another, all far removed from the fighting, seem sensible, or do you think our highest command is out of touch with the reality of your situation?

Of course not, but this has happened in every war since Grog told Tog to throw the first stone at Ugg. What Rooney can't comprehend is what makes the American Army so hard to defeat, what drove the Germans mad during WW II ... we don't fight according to our doctrine ... when the fighting starts, we use common sense and do what needs to be done ... yes, weird ass orders come down from above, but at brigade level and lower people make decisions to 'adjust' what was ordered to make sense ... in the end, success is all that matters, not strict adherence to orders from above. That's why the guard and reserve do so well over here, they are far more used to 'modifying' orders to get the mission done then the active component ( the officers could care less about getting a bad evaluation report ... what are you going to do to me, send me to Iraq?), and are far more used to working with little resources to get the mission done ... not to say we don't have the recourses.

4. If you could have a medal or a trip home, which would you take?

I could care less for either and am insulted that you would think that one or the other is the only thing we want over here. I want to be here until my mission is complete ... if it's earlier then scheduled; it will be because we achieved our mission and are no longer needed here. I'm nearer to the end of my career then the beginning, so I could care less about medals.

5. Are you encouraged by all the talk back home about how brave you are and how everyone supports you?

Encouraged? Wouldn't be the word for it, grateful is probably better. I certainly appreciate that more then the defeatist talk of someone who is rooting for failure because it would better promote his political agenda.

Of course Andy will never interview a soldier ... he would rather that we're all disgruntled over here.

Sorry for the off target and old post ... but someone just sent that to me, and I just wanted to rant! ;-)

Jay, I was just referring to the group of blogs sending Form 180's to Kerry every Tuesday.

Frodo, rant away. If anyone has earned the right, you have. I don't worry about bandwidth - I've paid in advance and this is my hobby.

And mr. rdr, if you're going to crack me up at the end of the work day, you're going to get made fun of, a little :)

I had not heard about Andy Rooney's little trip into dementia, but after 20 seconds of googling I believe he may have stepped in it.

Bastardsword has a good full-throated fisking, with a very good comments section on this topic. I like his answer to #4:

4. If you could have a medal or a trip home, which would you take?

I'm sure they'd take option three, 10 days house arrest with loss of pay for ripping a particular CBS employee's dentures out of his head.

He finishes with:

(Rooney) Bush's determination to make the evidence fit the action he took, which it does not, has made things look worse. We pay lip service to the virtues of openness and honesty, but for some reason, we too often act as though there was a better way of handling a bad situation than by being absolutely open and honest.

(Bastardsword) Ok then. I'll be absolutely open and honest when I describe what should be done to Andy Rooney. First, every soldier in Iraq should read his little questionaire. Then as they rotate home each gets to take one swing at Rooney with a Wiffle bat. Wouldn't want to use a real bat, because then only the first few soldiers would get a crack at him. Remember, we'll be at this for the long haul.

While they're at it, they can ask him how he could say that Bush tried to make the evidence fit the actions. If Bush had done that, we'd be up to our armpits in all sorts of chemical weapons that we planted ourselves, now wouldn't we? That hasn't happened, because unlike CBS employees, we don't make a habit of lying our little sanctimonious asses off.

Sounds to me like Andy Rooney needs the Jean Fraude Kerrie treatment - a Wednesday blogburst! To start, each of these google search results should send their replies and their comments to the doddering old fool.