Letter to Navy Times [View All]

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I'm sorry, but I am not computer savvy enough to post a link, but the 30 June 2003 Navy Times had an article entitled "Fair game?". In the article, two marine officers had designed some stupid thing called "Most Unwanted Americans" playing cards. Of course, modeled after the Iraq playing cards. Of the cards shown, there was Bill Clinton as the Ace of Spades, along with Nancy Pelosi, Dick Gephardt, and of course..The Dixie Chicks. I was offended, so here is the letter I sent off to Navy Times:

I am an active duty officer in the United States Navy with 19 years of
dedicated service to my country. I was appalled and embarrassed by the 30 June 2003 Navy times article "Fair game?". Currently I am deployed to "support and defend" the Constitution of the United States. Not only am I an active duty officer, but I am also what you may classify as a "died in the wool", "bleeding heart liberal". Are you, or the two Marines that designed the "Most Unwanted Americans" playing cards implying that I am not a patriot? Maybe you are implying that my picture should be on the cards as well. If that is the case, I'll send in my picture and request that I be the Jack of Hearts.

It is amazing that of all the cards shown, there was not one Republican member of the House or Senate. That's awful funny when you consider that there is currently ONE, ONE! member of Congress that has a child serving in harms way, and that member is a Democrat from the great state of South Dakota. Maybe I missed something. Is the military now an arm of the Republican Party? That will really come as a shock to the hundreds of thousands of Democrats, Independents, and thoughtful people serving today. Most of these military members understand the difference between showing
respect and admiration for our elected officials, and the jingoistic,
knee-jerk reaction of far right wing conservatives.

For Navy Times to give this sophomoric display any press, let alone include a web site to order these ridiculous cards, is a slap in the face of every left of center person currently risking their lives in defense of this country. This type of abuse because of someone's political views would be more fitting in Stalinist Russia. To equate a former two time elected President of the United States with Saddam Hussein by putting his face on the Ace of Spades is not only laughable, it is unseemly. It definitely is not conduct that I would define as "becoming" an officer in the United States Marine Corps. This great country of ours has survived as long as it has, in no small part, because the military does not belong to one political
party or another. What ever happened to respect and decency?


Oh by the way..The Pentagon was qouted as saying that there would be no disciplinary action taken.