stupidest column ever - I want my son serve under bush

[onenote]

and I've read a lot of stupid columns

I WANT MY GI SON TO SERVE UNDER BUSH By STEVE DUNLEAVY

October 26, 2004 -- THE cliché goes: "Just business, nothing personal." The hell it is. John Kerry makes me weak in the ankles — and now it's personal, not business.

In the next few days, there will be a person reporting for duty in Iraq. His name is Army Capt. Peter J. Dunleavy.

....
He is special to me, as are all the thousands of boys and girls who serve this country, because he looks at fear as a headache and duty as the ultimate. And yet, John Kerry makes it look like those guys and gals are just victims — wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.

How dare he say that to our brave boys and girls? How dare he whisper it — let alone shout it to the whole world?

http://www.nypost.com/commentary/32733.htm

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[Mizmoon]

1. Well, it's published in the stupidest paper ever produced

so it's fitting.

[onenote]

2. good point n/t

[soupkitchen]

10. I refer to it as the NY ComPost, (pure fertilizer)

[trumad]

3. Didn't Dunleavy work with O'Reilly?

[soupkitchen]

4. Steve Dunleavy is the epitome of a Hack Writer

This guy has been making a living on ass-kissing drivel for a long, long time

[hangemhigh]

5. His son will be serving six feet under

I swear, it's like having Major Frank Burns as Commander in Chief.

[beanball]

18. My hero

I dare you insult my hero,Frank Burns was much wiser than AWOL Bush.

[hangemhigh]

20. Major Frank Burns

In retrospect, apologies to Major Burns.:-)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Maybe dummy can wrap his mind around the missing explosives

and how they walked off on his pretzeldent's watch, and now his son could be at the recieving end.

[Sparkly]

7. What part of "free country" do these people not understand?

Even those who think the fighting in Iraq is about defending America -- what do they think they are defending? Shall we relinquish our right to question the government or protest injustice or dissent, each and every time soldiers fight to, supposedly, defend those very things???

How STUPID are these people?!?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Lame Non-Descriptive Thread Title. You can do better.

Your title is a Lame Non-Descriptive Thread Title. You can do better. Begin by reading:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1173352

A better Thread Title would be something like:

"Stupid Column: Dunleavy's Army Son, NY Post"

[Weembo]

13. Thank goodness we have the "descriptive title" thread police

[okieinpain]

9. Funny, I saw you're heading and knew immediately which one

you were talking about. I thought this guy was suppose to be a professional.

[dicknbush]

11. Sombody should send this joke to Dumlevy...

What's the difference bewteen Viet Nam and Iraq?

Bush had a plan to get out of Viet Nam!

I couldn't find Dumlevy's email or I would send it to him myself!

[fishface]

12. He's get his very own special flag to frame when his kid

comes home in a box. He can thank the village idiot then.

[onenote]

15. and he won't see bush at the funeral either

[tomfodw]

14. No More Mister Nice Blog has the truth about the columnist

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2004/10/sleazemongers-tears-steve-dunleavy-in.html

A SLEAZEMONGER'S TEARS

Steve Dunleavy in the New York Post today (lead story with tearjerking cover photo):

I WANT MY GI SON TO SERVE UNDER BUSH

...In the next few days, there will be a person reporting for duty in Iraq. His name is Army Capt. Peter J. Dunleavy....

He is special to me, as are all the thousands of boys and girls who serve this country, because he looks at fear as a headache and duty as the ultimate.

And yet, John Kerry makes it look like those guys and gals are just victims -- wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.

How dare he say that to our brave boys and girls? How dare he whisper it -- let alone shout it to the whole world?

In my book, Kerry is giving comfort and succor to the enemy...

When John Kerry says wrong war, wrong time, wrong place he undermines not my boy, but our boys. He embarrasses the United States abroad and he saps morale....

Steve Dunleavy in the New York Post, March 24, 1999:

WE'RE SACRIFICING OUR KIDS FOR KOSO-WHAT?

...I do not know more than two human beings who know where Kosovo is...

Why are we beating war drums over a place where nobody knows where it is.

In 1968, when there were considerable body parts left in paddy fields in Vietnam only 5 percent of college students could tell you where Vietnam was.

Charming.

...if, we are going to Kosovo for humanitarian purposes, that is fair. The Serbs have had an awful lot of time to make Kosovo a mass grave.

But if we are going into a civil war, where we don't only know how to get into, how to get out of, but we don't even know where it is.

Well, partner, think again.

(For more on Dunleavy's background as a checkbook journalist, self-mythologizing aging adolescent, and proud drunk -- no that's not slander, it's fact -- go here, here, here and here. He wrote this literary masterpiece and is actually angry that he doesn't get credit for his wife's work on this book.)

[grumpy old fart]

19. links

Supposed to be links in your reply? Would like to see 'em, cause the one you wrote out was great!

[tomfodw]

22. Just click on the link to No More Mister Nice Blog

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2004/10/sleazemongers-tears-steve-dunleavy-in.html

read all the links there

[gratuitous]

16. Well, I suspect Mr. Dunleavy's son . . .

Will be killed just as dead under Kerry as he would be under Bush. But I suppose he will derive far more comfort knowing that the clown who got us into this mess was presiding over his son's demise. Idiot.

I am reminded of the story from ancient Greece: Archimedes (or some such ancient sage) was looking over some old bones that had been unearthed. The ruler happened by, and with a smirk, asked Archimedes what he was doing, not understanding the nature of research or science. Archimedes responded that he was rummaging through an old grave in which the ruler's father had been buried with his slaves. Try as he might, he couldn't distinguish the father's noble bones from the slave bones.

[demwing]

17. THIS Line

"Then I felt something strange — for the first time, after a lifetime of feeling like an adolescent, I felt old. Sending a kid off to war does that, I guess. "

I GUESS?

Fuck head. Sending off my child to a war that has been proven to be based on a series of ever worsening LIES would KILL me.

Poor baby, he doesn't feel like an adolescent anymore? Too bad he still reasons like an adolescent.

[CarlWoodward]

21. Good god

Dunleavey acts as if he's the only person in the world who has a relative in or heading to Iraq, and from that assumes some kind of arrogant "moral authority."

News flash to Mr. Dunleavey: Hundreds of thousands of Americans have children, brothers, sisters, parents, spouses, friends and other loved ones who have been caught up in this war. And many, many, many of us are ardent supporters of Sen. Kerry, because he's the only candidate that has put forward a sane plan to clean up the mess Bush* started.