Profiles in Cowardice

After watching that clip of Colin Powell singing YMCA at the ASEAN conference in July again this week, it dawned on me that it may have been the most courageous thing that anyone in the Bush Administration has done in the past 4 years. I really can't imagine Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney having the courage to do that in front of a crowd, let alone fighting in a war, something that Colin Powell is the only one of the three to do as well.

Standing with Rumsfeld and Cheney at the other end of the courage-cowardice spectrum is Chris Davis, a member of the 87th Stateside Keyboard Division who writes for the Men's News Daily. The Men's News Daily is an online publication that is similar to Maxim except that it's incredibly stupid and their "babes" are not very hot. Mr. Davis wins the Concrete Dildo this week as he shows off the skills he learned in Microsoft Word bootcamp in this article called "Kill ‘Em All, Let Allah Sort ‘Em Out". Here are the highlights:

One U.S. Marine, a cameraman, and a terrorist. The marine, acting in complete self-defense, fired the round into a terrorist pretending to be dead. Seconds later, the terrorist was dead, and now part of the mosque’s décor.

Now, as with Abu Ghraib, any Iraqi victim is obviously assumed to be a terrorist. It's possible he was, it's much more likely that he wasn't. The question that matters though is how many Iraqis will think he was a terrorist or how many will think he's just one of the many thousands of Iraqis who want us out of their country.

What do you get when you add all of that up? A compulsion to run with the tape. The mainstream media had President Bush now. This will get him impeached.

Quick question, Chris. Who decided that there would be embedded reporters in Iraq? Donald Rumsfeld or the New York Times? If the mainstream media was trying to get Bush impeached this way, do you think Rumsfeld would allow it, Einstein?

Somehow, the liberal press would have you believe that this poor, unarmed, Iraqi civilian would still be alive had this trigger-happy Marine not gunned him down in cold blood.

Actually, that's true. He would still be alive. That's what happens when you don't shoot someone.

If we are to believe this Iraqi man is an innocent civilian, then what was he doing faking his death? Why would a civilian caught up in the battle not cry out for help?

Uh, maybe because he thought that the Marine would shoot him, jackass?

Especially when help was right there? Because he wasn’t an innocent civilian, and he wasn’t an “insurgent.” He was a terrorist assassin out to kill Americans, period.

So your theory is that in a situation where American soldiers invade a mosque, the "terrorists" will act one way, and the "insurgents" will act in a different way? Are you sure you want to stick with that logic?

He could’ve been booby-trapped. He could’ve had a hand grenade in his hand. There is a myriad of possibilities that could’ve led this marine to shoot him. Speculation at this point is a typical senseless agenda.

Right, like speculating that he was a terrorist? Or speculating that Kevin Sites is trying to get Bush impeached?

This shouldn’t have even made the news. There should’ve been cheers for the marine for doing his job.

Make up your mind, dude!

Since the days of Watergate, liberals have been trying to remove conservatives by scandal.

Conservatives never do that to liberals though.

Could America have survived World War II and Korea with the meddling press corps we have today?

Once again, the press is there because Donald Rumsfeld wants them there!

In those days, we would’ve leveled everything; anyone that didn’t get out of the zone would’ve been part of the landscape. Now, with precision weapons and an overly sensitive press, we exercise caution at every little nook, cranny, and mosque.

Of course we do. This is nothing like World War II. We're occupiers trying to rebuild a country, not invaders trying to bring down a regime. That part ended last April, moron. What it takes to "succeed" now is very different and doesn't involve indiscriminate killing.

We’re spreading freedom throughout Iraq, which will help to stabilize an extremely volatile area of the world. These assassins operate on one kind of mentality: “Kill ‘em all, let Allah sort ‘em out.” Which is why a terrorist—one that was injured from earlier fighting—was playing dead.

Once again, an idiotic rant from an idiotic chickenhawk ends with the predictable mantra that we're "spreading freedom" throughout Iraq by killing a bunch of people. Many of us who opposed this war do understand that this Marine was in a difficult situation and probably shouldn't be punished harshly for what happened. The amount of stress that these soldiers are under is significant, and should be considered when looking at how to handle this situation, but people both here and there have to understand that we're not "spreading freedom" in Iraq by making people afraid of our presense. And no, Chris, even an innocent Iraqi civilian would be playing dead in that situation, just as your cowardly ass would be if an Iraqi soldier charged into your church and pointed a gun at you.

Semper Fi, marine.

Whatever, mouse jockey.