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September 03, 2003

Rhetoric Only Gets You so Far

The Exile, a Moscow alternanive newspaper, has a highly interesting editorial based on America’s unwillingness to follow through with it’s occupation of Iraq. Writer Gary Brecher (a.k.a. “War Nerd”) takes off the gloves in his piece: “You Pussies!”. His take is that war is brutal and never pleasant, and condemns those who are backing away from their initial hawkish stance (based on recent polls). A worthy read which includes facts about lesser known occupations in history.

Posted by Stephen VanDyke at September 3, 2003 02:47 PM
Comments
Comment #2273

Although I didn’t agree with his “empire” rhetoric, I must say that article was one of the most interesting I have read in months. It was also pretty humorous.

Posted by: Pete at September 3, 2003 03:23 PM
Comment #2279

Wow someone get this guy a show on Fox News!

Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at September 3, 2003 04:28 PM
Comment #2286

Jake didn’t read the article in its entirety I bet. Jake, it was fairly anti-American in many of its points. Read it all the way through and you will see that. I actually think that you will like it in a lot of ways.

Posted by: Pete at September 3, 2003 06:29 PM
Comment #2287

I just glanced it because it did not look like something I would want to read at work.

Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at September 3, 2003 07:52 PM
Comment #2288

Pete,

Please stop the trolling that being a Liberal is being unAmerican. It’s really old.

Posted by: LawnBoy at September 3, 2003 09:26 PM
Comment #2291

Hey lawnboy…
This guy is not a typical liberal. I never said that “being a liberal in un-American” so why don’t you re-read it and give youself a pat on the back for a lack of reading comprehension.

Posted by: pete at September 4, 2003 12:23 AM
Comment #2292

Pete,

I’m sorry. I connected the 2nd and 4th sentences from the post on September 3, 2003 06:29 PM more strongly than you intended, although not more strongly than can reasonably be read from the statement. I apologize for responding hastily.

However, your sarcastic comment about my lack of reading comprehension is unwarranted because your post is ambiguous enough for me to reasonably interpret a troll.

Posted by: LawnBoy at September 4, 2003 10:41 AM
Comment #2303

Hey Lawnboy, I didn’t mean to insult you too much. I was just being sarcastic. Sorry, it always bugs me when people do that though.

Posted by: Pete at September 5, 2003 12:46 PM