To: John Martha, War Hero In Congress
From: Barbra Streisand
Dear Congresperson Murder:
How dare they! How dare those evil Republicans question your patriotism. After all you are a highly decorated Marine who has fought in many wars including World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam. I bet you even have more medals than Jim Carey, the highly decorated war hero who would be our president if the Republicans hadn't stolen so many votes in Iowa. I still don't understand why the Democrats didn't demand a recount. I have noticed that everytime there is a recount the Democrats find more votes that the Republicans have hidden from them.
I think you have a real good idea in moving all of our soldiers out of Iraq and sending them to Okinawa. Since Okinawa is in the Red Sea that is close enough to redeploy.
Now, my plan says redeploy to the periphery, to Kuwait, to Okinawa, and if there's a terrorist activity that affects our allies or affects the United States' national security, we can then go back in.
I agree completely. As you know, I am very active in politics and I think I know a thing or three. I've sent faxes to many leaders in the Democratic Party and they are always happy to get my advice, although not all of them respond to me.
I have also dropped my subscription to that right wing rag, the Las Angelos Times. They fired one of their best columnists, Robert Schear, and replaced him with that horrible Jonah Goldwater. He's a Jew and he's a Republican! Everyone knows that Jews should be Democrats. I'm a Jew and I'm a Democrat. He's a traitor to his Jewishness.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I'm behind you all the way and I hope that you get promoted to a leadership post when the Democrats take over the government next year. Then we can impeach the president and get our troops out of Iraq and into Okinawa.
I support the troops.
Luv ya,
Babs
Just love ya Babs! Have always admired you,especially when cashing your checks. But can you please explain one thing that I have always been amazed at; is it true that you can smoke a cigarette while taking a shower and never getting it wet!
John Murder
Posted by: gene hall on December 15, 2005 07:40 PMIts been awhile since Babs sent a fax.. This one was of great quality.
Posted by: Greg DiCroce on December 15, 2005 08:47 PMI am an asswipe comment spammer.
Posted by: sfgj on December 15, 2005 08:52 PMsfgi - !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Denny on December 15, 2005 08:53 PMSatire... no wait, documentry... err
It's so hard to tell!
Posted by: Murray on December 16, 2005 05:03 AMWow Denny, you must have a tap on Babs's fax line. No one but Babs her-own-self could have written such an incisive piece as this.
Posted by: Bob on December 16, 2005 11:04 AMI grabbed this article from one of my favorite websites www.strategypage.com
It's a little long but really hits the target and nails the LSM for what they are. I'll bet the LSM just hate a 70% Iraqi voter turn out(In some places 80%) with little violence. I'll bet that just chaps their asses.
Reporting What You Want, Not What You See
December 16, 2005:
A story slowly creeping into the news is the disconnect between what American troops experience in Iraq, and what is reported back in the United States, and the rest of the world. For U.S. troops, who are reenlisting in record numbers, even after multiple tours in Iraq, they are fighting a war they are winning, and they see the evidence of this all around them. You’d think that this would make a good story, but it doesn’t. The war on terror, and especially the war in Iraq, have got caught in the middle of other political conflicts. In the United States, the Democrat Party, out of power after nearly half a century, are eager to get control of the government once more, and agreeing about victory in Iraq is not seen as helping their cause. The American mainstream media, needing bad news to keep their ratings up, opt for the Democratic Party view of things.
The hostility from the rest of the world is easier to understand. With the end of the Cold War, everyone will naturally gang up on the lone superpower. Add to the mix all those disappointed Soviet Union fans looking to relive the good old days, and you have a mass of hostility looking for an outlet. America makes the perfect villain, because it’s one that isn’t really a threat. The U.S. will not only take the heat, but continue to be a good trading partner and be quick with a helping hand if anyone gets in trouble.
What the troops think, and experience, is something that can be ignored for the moment. If it becomes too obvious that reporting victory in Iraq cannot be avoided, then the media depends on the fact that the media reports the present, not the past. The media works on the assumption that its readers have no long term memory. Thus there would be a flurry of stories on how all is well in Iraq, and then on to the next headline grabbing disaster. This happened right after the 1991 Gulf War, and right after the three week invasion of Iraq in 2003. History and punditry do not mix.
What the troops see is the majority of Iraqis glad to have them there, and Saddam gone. But the troops also see that Saddams thousands of thugs, and the Sunni Arabs in general, are still free, and fighting to regain the power that Saddam lost for them. While the American media and the rest of the world rabbit on about “the Iraqi resistance,” the troops note that the Iraqis who are still killing, are the same ones who did so for decades while working for Saddam. American troops are killing bad people, not Iraqi “freedom fighters.” Future histories will wonder at how the media was able to carry off their charade for so long. But so far they have, although it’s becoming more difficult as more people get their news from the Internet, where the troops have more of a voice. Not just with blogs and email, but with the different attitudes of web based news organizations. Less burdened with old habits (the only good news is bad news), they also have demographic advantages. Younger people are more often getting their news from the web, rather than TV or paper. At least people the same age as the soldiers know what’s really going on.
As a practical matter, the military can’t do much to get the true story out. Actually, the mass media is already backing off from their Iraq coverage, because of a combination of too much good news, and too much alternative coverage from the troops, and Iraqis themselves. Good news is no news. Moreover, the large number of people who have bought into the idea that Iraq was a mistake, evil, and a defeat, that there will long be an audience for revisionist historians, who will invent alternate realities of what really happened in Iraq.
What the history books will report will be how the battle for Iraq brought democracy (which al Qaeda outright condemns) to the Middle East, and forced Islamic terrorists to show their true colors (fanatic butchers, who don’t much care who they kill.) This led to a sharp decline in al Qaeda’s popularity, and a renewed enthusiasm for democracy throughout what al Qaeda considered their home base. Militarily, it’s known as “taking the war to the enemy.” It’s an ancient strategy that still works. But that was rarely reported, for now. You'll just have to wait.
Cheers and Merry Christmas :-)
And John McCain just passed his "Al Quadi Bill of Rights" to further enable these butchers to go unpunished. Oh by the way after all he will be running for president. But after being denied the Republican nomination I'm sure he'll turn independant along with Chuck Hagel or Lindsay Graham. And he'll get the indorsement of Al Jazeera and possibly the NY Times. Not much difference in the papers.
Posted by: gene hall on December 16, 2005 05:27 PMcaptainsquarters has a great commentary on the Iraqi elections yesterday here.
Posted by: fastdad on December 16, 2005 05:34 PM