I'll Be Appalled When I Stop Throwing Up

I was going to make a pithy quip about Multiple Choice Mitt Romney equating the service of our soldiers in Iraq to his sons' dire confinement in the Campaign Winnebego.  But, it's hard to lose sight of that elephant in the living room.  While Steve laughs and frolics gaily, seeing that the devil Beauchamp has been proven maybe sorta we're not real sure incorrect about skull caps and canine homicide, he does so while the truth remains a horror that Steve is blissfully unaware of.  TBogg's slant on the facts pretty well sums it up:

Just to be clear: the soldiers were frustrated so they took an innocent man out of his bed, tied him up, stuck him in a hole... and executed him, shooting him four times in the face.

I guess when they say that "freedom is on the march" in Iraq, the 'freedom' they are talking about is for the eight soldiers who took part in murdering a man. The 'march' is the short walk from a bed to a roadside grave.

Murder, for our brave fighting men, is now aggravated assault with time served.  Hell, boy, doncha know there's a war on!?!  These are soldiers and they get frustrated.  It's not like those damned law-breakers who cross a river to spread the gospel of burritos and take our money.  Besides, that court martial was a bunch of damned dirty liars.  'Had to be.  Don't you see that these are *SOLDIERS*?

So, I need to ask some questions here:  1)  How can we expect that the vast majority of the people serving in Iraq, who are honorable and committed, to remain so if the consequences for so doing are meaningless?  Don't we believe in the rule of law?  Isn't that the very foundation of the Democracy we claim we wish to spread?  And if there's bad apples in the bunch, shouldn't we calmly and politely respect those who might be pointing that out, instead of sweeping the crap under the rug (where the only people who admit to smelling it are the people who will then want to kill us in the future)?

As to that last one, if you're a lawyer from Missoula, I guess the answer'd be no.

 

UPDATE:  And just so that we lose no perspective on the Romney boys,

Comments

[Aaron Goldberg]

It’s a heck of a job supporting the mythologies of the left, isn’t it? I mean, no sooner are you convinced of some new myth expounded upon by some new hero than it falls apart. Think of Kerry or Rather or Kos (and his stock-touting lieutenant). And now you have Scotty Beauchamp, which sounds too much like Bobby Bouché for comfort, if you ask me.

When will it ever end? My guess is when children stop thinking HP Lovecraft writes about real things. Or maybe when children stop believing in zombies.

-- Aaron

[Wulfgar]

Murder is mythology? You're very confused, aren't you?

[Steve]

Your non-sequiters are becoming too numerous too deal with. Must be part of your nefarious plan: "If I confuse everyone, they will think that I am brilliant!"
But it is fascinating that the reliance on Beauchamp is such an important aspect for you. Fake but accurate is more important apparently than the truth.
I know, I know, you still think that Rather's National Guard dox are correct too.
Tends to diminish your argument, beyond what you already do.

[Wulfgar]

Steve, they only seem like non-sequiters to you because you're being willfully clueless.

And take a look, kitten. You've written more about Beauchamps on this website than I have. Yet you somehow know exactly what I think. No, you really don't. Yet stumbling through what passes for thought from you, apparently you care more about being correct (your version of the truth) than you do about the rule of law, or people being murdered, you know, the truth?. It should be frightening that you're a lawyer, but I think people are used to that shit by now. So I wouldn't get too shook up about Wulfgar's credibility, if I were you.

You remain ... an idiot.

[Wulfgar]

Oh, and Steve? One more thing. If you're going to leave simple minded comments at people's websites, you really shouldn't be doing it from a government box ... know what I'm sayin'?

[Arron Goldberg]

Some people have permission to post from work, like me, but not like you...

--Aaron

[Wulfgar]

"Permission"? We're talking a dot Gov IP address here, which means I own it, just as much as Steve. Permission should be the least of his worries (or whomever's machine that he's posting from.)

[Arron Goldberg]

Well, I own it, too. And I say he can use it. So there!

[moorcat]

Unfortunately, the law tends to disagree with you.... The use of public resources to post to blogs ect is illegal almost everywhere. I would be interested just how you "got permission". Sounds decidedly fishy to me...

Moorcat