Memorial Day Whack Job

Bastards! Pricks! Assholes! Buttwipes! Jerkweeds! Asshats! Traitorous commie bastards! I'm pissed. I mean I'm really pissed!

I opened up the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation (or as reader Harold calls it, the Al Jazzera & Constitution) and right there on the front page was a story about POW's. It is Memorial Day weekend and we should be reading stories honoring soldiers. That is what Memorial Day is all about. So I expected sumpin' about POW's from other wars, not a hit piece. The fuckhead started off his story like this:

Washington --- They are infamous memorials to the inhumanity of war: The Bataan Death March. Stalags. The Hanoi Hilton.

And now, Abu Ghraib.

GMAFB! This fucktard is comparing Abu Ghraib to the Bataan Death March? I am so fucking sick and tired about how the press is milking this story for all it's worth. I'm sick of it! Jesus H. Christ! We humiliated some fucking ragheads. These were not choirboys. Many of these assholes were our fucking enemies! It's not like we fed them into shredders or broke their arms and legs. Yeah, I was pissed when I first heard about it but now I'm getting pissed off at the press. The army was taking care of this before the booger eatin' moh-rons in the lamestrem media tried to make this story into the worst thing to have happened since the Holocaust. And now we have this asswipe trying to compare it to the Bataan Death March or the Hanoi Hilton. Enough of this shit! Stop it already!

It's like the poor sorry bastard who had to go see Doug Piranha:

Vercotti: Doug. (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified of him. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.

Interviewer: What did he do?

Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.

Yeah, we stripped 'em naked and humiliated them. We were vicious.

But the asstard continues.

These POWs' courageous stories are almost beyond belief. And they speak with a perspective few have earned, from the hard side of steel bars and cellblock beatings.

''You would strip down and put hands behind your head and stand there and take it. They used a club that was like a baseball bat --- a little thinner but just as long,'' recalled Harris Chuck, 86, a Marine who was captured in Guam only days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was a POW until the Allied victory over Japan four years later.

And we made 'em strip down and form pyramids. We scared 'em with dogs. We had a stupid girl laugh at them. No fucking comparison. None at all.

The beatings were usually ''warranted,'' Chuck recalled. The POWs would steal rations, loot ships they were forced to load and sabotage whatever equipment they could. The toughest hardship was the diet --- only soup and rice --- which reduced Chuck's weight from 165 to 137 pounds.

So how much weight was lost by the prisoners in Abu Ghraib? Did we make them perform physical labor?

What happened to the Iraqi prisoners was wrong, said Sterno, 82, who lives in Brunswick.

''But I can understand that Iraqi deal. Some MPs are bad people. I'm not saying all of them, but you get a few that were downright brutal,'' he said. ''Some were mean. Ninety percent of them are good people but there are always a few in every group. You find some who are sadistic.''

No shit! And we have a press that is so anti-American that this has been blown all out of proportion. We have some bad apples that the Army was in the process of courtmartialing and the press has made this the biggest violation of human rights that has ever occurred in the history of the world. We stripped some Arabs naked and humiliated them! The Army is trying and punishing the people involved. The President has apologized to the entire fucking world. He apologized to the fucking King of Jordan fer chrissakes! Let it go! I'm sick of it.

Harry Joslin said his Japanese captors never submitted him to sexual shame like the American MPs who stacked up naked Iraqi prisoners, forced them to masturbate, posed them degradingly and photographed it.

''They treated us rudely, and there was not much food and we got whacked up a bit,'' Joslin said. ''But it was not at all like the POWs got treated in Iraq. None of that humiliation.''

Give me a choice of getting whacked up or forced to whack off, I'd take the whacking off. Humiliation? Spend six weeks in a hospital. By that time so many people have seen you naked that you don't have any shame. Humiliation? Suffer spinal cord injury where a nurse has to stick a tube up your dick so you can piss. Humiliation? A nurse has to stick a finger up your ass so you can shit. Don't talk to me about humiliation. When we start breaking bones and feeding people through shredders then this story could last six weeks. It has been overblown. Give it a fucking rest already!

I will give the asshole who wrote this article his due for actually presenting one dissenting opinion. Harris Chuck.

He is hesitant to condemn the six enlisted MPs who have been charged with abusing Iraqi inmates. He believes the war on terror is different from the ones he waged.

''We were dealing with a different type of enemy than in Iraq,'' he said. ''Those bums are terrorists. They just hate our guts. So what are you going to do when they're captured?''

Let's feed 'em through shredders. The world didn't seem to bitch about Saddam Hussein doing that.

Look. What went on at Abu Ghraib was wrong, but the press just can't seem to get off of it. The brutal beheading of Nick Berg was news for about two days. Then it fell below the radar. Our lamestream media is still carrying on about Abu Ghraib.

I'm outraged that the bum who wrote this article about POW's used it to bash our military. Memorial Day should not be about Abu Ghraib. It should be about our soldiers who gave their lives for this country. It should be about all the soldiers who fought honorably for this country. That this asshole used Memoral Day to write a hit piece on the military just makes me sick to my stomach.

Can't they give this overblown story a rest for one weekend? Instead of asking the rest of the world, "Why do they hate us?", I think we need to ask the American press why do they hate America.

I just can't understand it.

Posted by denny at May 30, 2004 09:45 PM