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Originally posted by Not Me
The fact that he served honorably and heroically in a war does not mean that he is not acting in an anti-American way now.
And before you go around citing his medal of honor, you might want to review his own statements about his role in Thanh Phong.
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(a) I don't see his actions as anti-American. I don't think that being pissed as hell about the 9/11 attacks, and the failure of our government to stop it is anti-American. I don't think that beating up witnesses from both sides of the aisle with hard questions, or being pissed when they blatantly evade answering questions in order to give speeches, is anti-American. I also don't think that asking hard questions and really trying to figure out what happened, why, how it could be fixed, and who might be responsible for screw-ups is anti-American.
In the few excerpts that I saw from Rice's televised testimony -- she was respnding to many of the Panel's questions much the way that the candidates respond in Presidential debates, i.e. make the speech that they want to make almost without regard to the questions asked. It was blatantly political. If I were a Commission member who cared about doing my job and had a _total_ of 10 minutes for Q&A, I'd have been pissed too.
Then, in my typically moderate way, I will say that if you disagree with me on this -- you are an idiot.
(b) Is that the incident in which a number of innocent civilians died? At the risk of sounding callous, too damn bad.
S_A_M
