David Brooks "get over Vietnam"

[shooga]

on PBS washington week ... David Brooks told the boomers to get over Vietnam.... maybe David Brooks should get over the Holocaust.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. How old is David Brooks?

No clue who he is.

I am a boomer, will NOT get over Vietnam.

[shooga]

4. I don't think he's ever had to ...

... shoot a BB gun , let alone having to shoot an M16 (which jammed) or toss grenades, or use a Pentagram, I mean Pentagon wickedly favorite -- the infamous Flame Thrower.

Imagine the horror those 18 - 32 year olds had to go through ... now we are fighting for oil ... back then I heard we were fighting for the "natural rubber" resources in the area.


oh yeah, did I forget Agent Orange ... Mr. Ihadtoleave8monthsearlyforHarvard.

[aquart]

8. Rubber? We were fighting for rubber?

This was Firestone's war?

I have never known why we were in Viet Nam. Never. I never heard one single reason to be there.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. Yep, rubber. At least originally. Then it was about testing new

weapons systems, uniforms, and tactics.

Nothing more convient than a low-intensity conflict to practice new theories from the War Colleges.

Then later, we could not get out, because the CIA was making too much money on the drug trade they controlled....er, I mean the intel ops they ran. Same thing.

[TahitiNut]

16. Rubber ... as in Michelin ... as in "Michelin Plantation".

HUGE

Here's a Google. Read about some of the action.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Michelin+Plantation%22&btnG=Google+Search

[psyntist]

19. Crazy

I just love that the content on that page is juxtaposed against a Michelin ad to the right. Very surreal.

[priller]

5. He's a new NYTimes columnist

and he looks to be 40-ish. At one point in time, in fact fairly recently, he had a decent reputation as columnist, but since starting the NYTimes column he's revealed himself to be a complete PNAC/neocon sympathizer. 9/11 changed everything and all that. Most of the columns have been embarrassingly bad.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Oh, HIM!!!

I avoid reading that asswipe. Thanks, priller.

[Lars39]

22. He's also a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, with Kristol.

blech.

[shooga]

24. very good !!

PNACkers should "get over 911" ...

Brooks has his head buried deep up Perle's ass ... along with Bill Krystol, Fred Barnes, Daniel Pipes, David Frum, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz

[SharonAnn]

17. Me neither. My class mates and friends died or were horribly

injured because our government LIED to us!

I will never forget that our government is very capable of LYING to us and sending people to DIE for a LIE!

[sallyseven]

2. Maybe David Brooks

should get over thinking he is a real commentator because he is not.

[jean]

3. 8+ million surviving VietNam Vets will not get over it Mr Brooks

[aquart]

9. Neither will the protestors who tried to bring them home.

I am still angry over every name on that wall.

[caledesi]

11. Amen! I saw the wall and people I knew that were killled. nt

[UTUSN]

6. Brooks & Ruben NAVARRETTE Ought to Get Married n/t

[markses]

12. Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we've all been there....

After enough time passed and memory receded and settled, the name itself became a prayer, coded like all prayer to go past extremes of petition and gratitude: Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, say again, until the word lost all its old loads of pain. pleasure, horror, guilt, nostalgia . (p. 56)

I saw a picture of a North Vietnamese soldier sitting in the same spot on the danang River where the press center had been, where we'd sat smoking and joking and going "Too much!" and "Far out!" and "Oh my God it gets so freaky out there!" He looked so unbelievably peaceful, I knew that somewhere that night and every night there'd be people sitting together over there talking about the bad old days of jubilee and that one of them would remember and say, Yes, never mind, there were some nice ones, too. And no moves left for me at all but to write down some few last words and make the dispersion, Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we've all been there. (p. 260)

- Michael Herr, Dispatches

[Kinkistyle]

13. Repugs should "get over" 9/11

Oh thats right. Its different when AMERICA is attacked. Buncha hypocrites.

[Mari333]

14. Brooks can read about THESE guys

comfortable cowards can kiss my ass

Its VIETNAM right NOW....its called Iraq...and a snivelling chickenshit Frat boy started it all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/magazine/15VETS.html?pagewanted=1

[digno dave]

15. noecons forgot, that's for sure

funny thing, i think the neocons forgot about it a long time ago.

[Skittles]

18. go visit THE WALL, Mr. Brooks

and then tell us to get over it, you miserable F***.

[Johnyawl]

20. fuck you...

...you fucking fucker. I'll not get over it.

I was 19.

I believed them.

[rhino47]

21. Yeah I watched that segment in stunned disbelief

When he said "Get over it" I about exploded.I however did the
next best thing.I wrote a letter to newshour.Heres the link.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/letters.html

[stopbush]

23. Funny, they never say to get over WWII.

Why is that?

[Stephanie]

25. Brooks is the biggest WEENIE of the neo-con clique

He is such a weenie they won't even let him work in the administration. He is the dweeb's dweeb. He's so uncool he's relegated to defending their untenable positions in the press. If you saw him on Jim Lehrer tonight, he had to admit that there were a few too many LIES coming out of the Bush admin that he could not explain.

Brooks is a loser and a schmuck and he has little teeny weeny girlie hands. Look close. Overcompensating.

[Stephanie]

26. Please also note the badly dyed HAIR

What a weenie.

[dbt]

27. Get over Viet Nam?

Why?

So we can do it AGAIN?

Oh, that's right; we already ARE doing it again!

Nevermind...

:freak:
dbt