The Language Crawls Into A Hole And Dies

[Fenian_Bastard]

About the Gitmo suicides.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1795445,00.html
Hey, you want to say, "We run a kickass prison without human rights and some people can;t take it. Tough. We're at war," I'll disagree, but at least you're honest. This unmitigated bull****, though. Wow. Orwell's at about 78 rpm these days.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Re: The Lamguage Crawls Into A Hole And Dies

I'll take a room with a view in Oceania, please!

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The Winston Smith suite is available.

 

[JR]

I read those quotes yesterday but decided that they were too disgusting to post--even by SportsJournalists.com standards.

What exactly is an "act of asymmetrical warfare"?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Terrorism is, according to the latest military theory.
Of course, judging by this, almost anything is.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

First off - I find it funny that the self appointed Language Policeman has to edit the title of the thread because he spelled the word language wrong.

Secondly - the suicides were co-ordinated in order to bring negative press against Gitmo and the US effort in the war on terror. These weren't boyscouts we are talking about who killed themselves either. I for one am glad they ceased to be. These people were counting on the negative publicity from the press who has never had anything good to say about the military to make this a big deal (come to think of it - have you ever seen FB start a pro-US or pro-military thread?). Congratulations - you granted these three slimeballs their last wish by making this a big deal.

 

[Armchair_QB]

And it frees up a couple more cells.

 

[Ace]

Congratulations - you granted these three slimeballs their last wish by making this a big deal.

First, we'll take over SportsJournalists.com then the world is ours!!!

 

[novelist_wannabe]

wonder if their last words were anything similar to Zarqawi's? ;D

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

First off - I find it funny that the self appointed Language Policeman has to edit the title of the thread because he spelled the word language wrong.

Secondly - the suicides were co-ordinated in order to bring negative press against Gitmo and the US effort in the war on terror. These weren't boyscouts we are talking about who killed themselves either. I for one am glad they ceased to be. These people were counting on the negative publicity from the press who has never had anything good to say about the military to make this a big deal (come to think of it - have you ever seen FB start a pro-US or pro-military thread?). Congratulations - you granted these three slimeballs their last wish by making this a big deal.

Proof of the first sentence, last graf. Won't be forthcoming but, what the hell, remedial reporting's a good place to start.

 

[alleyallen]

First off - I find it funny that the self appointed Language Policeman has to edit the title of the thread because he spelled the word language wrong.

Secondly - the suicides were co-ordinated in order to bring negative press against Gitmo and the US effort in the war on terror. These weren't boyscouts we are talking about who killed themselves either. I for one am glad they ceased to be. These people were counting on the negative publicity from the press who has never had anything good to say about the military to make this a big deal (come to think of it - have you ever seen FB start a pro-US or pro-military thread?). Congratulations - you granted these three slimeballs their last wish by making this a big deal.

Are you entirely sure about that? I've read lots of stories from lots of sources and I'm not seeing the wave of anti-military writing that you're referring to. In fact, I'd be sensitive to it if I saw it, and I'm just not seeing widespread cases of it.

If, however, you mean that any negative reporting of the military equals anti-military, then I guess you're right. Then again, I guess that makes me anti-military. :

 

[alleyallen]

Yes, Alley. Of everyone on here, it's clear: you're the most anti-military.

I guess so since I was the one who posted

Never
Again
Volunteer
Yourself

 

[Double J]

Well, if anyone here has the right to be anti-military, it's alley.

Not saying you are, just saying the perspective of someone who has actually performed military service on behalf of his/her country, to me, is more valid and believable than the perspective of someone who has not served.