Rumsfeld Hires Otter As Speech Writer
(Guest Post by Big Tent Democrat)
From National Lampoon's "Animal House":
OTTER: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties . . . We did.
But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behaviour of a few sick, perverted individuals. If you do shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?
I put it to you, Greg. Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
Well you can do what you want to us but we won't sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!
From Rummy today:
It seems that in some quarters there is more of a focus on dividing our country, than acting with unity against the gathering threats.
We find ourselves in a strange time: When a database search of America's leading newspapers turns up 10 times as many mentions of one of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib who was punished for misconduct, than mentions of Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror;
When a senior editor at Newsweek disparagingly refers to the brave volunteers in our Armed Forces as a "mercenary army"; When the former head of CNN accuses the American military of deliberately targeting journalists and the former CNN Baghdad bureau chief admits he concealed reports of Saddam Hussein's crimes when he was in power so CNN could stay in Iraq; and
It is a time when Amnesty International disgracefully refers to the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, which holds terrorists who have vowed to kill Americans and which is arguably the best run and most scrutinized detention facility in the history of warfare, as "the gulag of our times."
Those who know the truth need to speak out against these kinds of myths, and lies, and distortions being told about our troops and our country. The struggle we are in is too important -- the consequences too severe -- to have the luxury of returning to the old mentality of "Blame America First.
Cue the humming of "The Star Spangled Banner."
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