Ex-Navy official protests Swift Boat funder’s nomination.
By on Mar 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Ex-Navy official protests Swift Boat funder’s nomination.
Today in the Washington Times, Wade Sanders — former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, decorated former swift boat skipper, and combat veteran — has an op-ed attacking President Bush’s nomination of Sam Fox to be ambassador to Belgium: “And as a military man, it doesn’t matter much who is being attacked — John McCain, Max Cleland, John Kerry, or Jack Murtha — I just don’t believe that assaults on the military records of veterans belong in our politics.”
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Deputy assistant under?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:17 amHi Patrick!
March 9th, 2007 at 11:20 amIt’s just business as usual for this administration.
Mass impeachment of all the corrupt and criminal elements of this administration (not just Cheney, despite Time magazine’s attempt to paint him as the sole bad apple in the bunch) is what is is going to take to restore our country. Subsequent prosecution of said elements in the Hague for War Crimes is what it is going to take to restore our country’s standing in the world.
We have a choice here. One choice is easy…just do nothing. Ignore the telltale signs, and allow our once-great republic to metamorphose into the Empire the neocons dream of. Just remember…empires have a habit of falling.
The other choice is not easy. It’s hard. It involves us actually getting up off the couch and taking action to ensure that our country remains the democratic republic our Founding Fathers worked so hard to create. They risked everything, and in their day, they were called rebels, traitors, and terrorists, but this didn’t stop them from establishing a system of government that insured that they would be free, and their children after them would enjoy the same freedoms. Can we honestly do any less?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:20 amWhen bush gets through, if allowed to continue, every representative of the government abroad will be a little John Bolton, incapable of diplomacy and guaanteed to make our former alliies even more pissed off than they are now. Plus which the “ambassadors” will become conduits for crooked deals between monetary interests and foreign criminals.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:23 amFor more background on Fox’s nomination, see:
March 9th, 2007 at 11:23 am“Conservatives 527, John Kerry 0.”
And he is asking this of a Commander-In- Chief who committed treason just because it was politically and financially beneficial?
Some people still mistake Amerika for America.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:23 amNext in line for swiftboating: former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, decorated former swift boat skipper, and combat veteran.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:25 amPatrick1 sez:
…does that matter? This isn’t about Wade Sanders. This is about Chimpy nominating a supporter of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a morally repugnant right-wing smear machine, to the office of Ambassador to Belgium.
I understand that it’s sheer instinct for mouth-breathers like you to go after the messenger…after all, that’s what the Swift Boaters themselves are all about. But it’s sloppy and stupid. You’ll need to do much better, Patrick, and I just don’t see that potential in you. Sorry.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:25 amDeputy undersecretary under what President?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:27 amHi Patrick!
Comment by Spongebob
Spongebob, can you take Patrick back to Bikini Bottom and shove a ball gag in his mouth?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:28 amit seems the bushit admin will always find the most incompetent immoral ,corrupt, hypocritical, suck up fubar things sooo bad then give him the medal of facism oh sorry medal of freedom and the sad thing is there proud of what they have done to harm this country
March 9th, 2007 at 11:30 amBush and his cronies continue to attack the true heroes that served our country so diligently; who stepped up and risked their lives so that we may live in freedom. All the while, Bush and Cheney pulled every string and called in every favor available to them through their birth into the privileged class to avoid putting themselves in any danger whatsoever and to avoid any sacrifice at all for our country.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:32 amSpongebob, can you take Patrick back to Bikini Bottom and shove a ball gag in his mouth?
Comment by Zooey
He insists on it. I did catch him having sex with my pet snail, Gary.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:32 amThe Republican mantra: “If you serve this country, we will screw you”.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:34 amWho did Wade work for?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:36 amI know the president can appoint whomever he wants to certain positions, but geezus, shouldn’t they at least be minimally qualified to do the frickin’ job? This crap about “serves at the pleasure of the President” needs to be changed to “serves at the pleasure of the People.”
Our government needs some serious reform to prevent something like the last six years from EVER happening again.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:37 amPatrick1 sez:
You don’t even read replies to your posts, do you, Patrick.
*sigh*
March 9th, 2007 at 11:40 amHe insists on it. I did catch him having sex with my pet snail, Gary.
Comment by Spongebob
Oh no! Poor Gary….
March 9th, 2007 at 11:43 am#15 — Patrick — here’s a clue for you: Try “The Google” and look it up for yourself.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:45 amTrumpMaster Mickey,
RU still here? I have my work cut out for me I can see.
I will get rid of you. You’ll see.
Eh MonkeyBalls?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:45 amSince the left is so embarrassed to tell us who he worked for then his opinion must be equally embarrassing.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:47 am“bechtel employee” sez:
Hi, rachel.
Just a reminder…you have yet to reply to my post exposing you and denouncing you as a plagiarist, a liar, and a fraud.
Take care. ^_^
March 9th, 2007 at 11:50 amDo I like strawman arguments? Do I like questions? Do I post like Donald Rumsfeld?
-Patrick1
March 9th, 2007 at 11:50 am“And as a military man, it doesn’t matter much who is being attacked — John McCain, Max Cleland, John Kerry, or Jack Murtha — I just don’t believe that assaults on the military records of veterans belong in our politics.â€
It’s worth pointing out that all of the attacks have come from the republican, and it didn’t matter to them even when the veteran was a republican, only that he was an opponent.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:53 amIf he is in the Kerry camp then yes he doesn’t like his boy being told on. So what?
March 9th, 2007 at 11:53 amWhat was Secretary Wade worrying about when the USS Cole was attacked? Obviously not his job.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:56 amWhat was newly elected President George W. Bush thinking when he ignored outgoing President Bill Clinton’s conclusions about Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaeda? Obviously not America.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:00 pmtake another oxy and a nap patty, you’re stinking the place up with stupid.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:01 pmGood to see this veteran also defended a Republican, John McCain, who was so unfairly attacked by Bush during the 2000 primaries. No one is safe from Bush’s (read: Karl Rove’s) personal smears. Bush is a coward.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pmYou don’t even read replies to your posts, do you, Patrick.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — March 9, 2007 @ 11:40 am
The reading function has yet to be programmed into Patrick-the-talking-point-robot’s functions.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:04 pmIt looks like morality and ethics are on the rise and becoming popular, again. Winning “at any cost” is on the way out, along with the Repubs who embrace that extinct and destructive theology. The neo-fascists are like a bunch of lemmings and I applaud thier unwavering stampede as they run to thier doom. They well deserve every stumble they make and every fall they take. They worked so hard for ruination.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pmThe reading function has yet to be programmed into Patrick-the-talking-point-robot’s functions.
Comment by VerbalKint
Be patient – Halliburton just got into the IT field.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pmThe fact that Bush nominated him for the ambassadorship is nauseating enough. Sanders was right to speak his mind.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:22 pmI see you are a Commie sympathizer. There are places for you out in Wyoming.
You are also an armed “survivalist kookâ€
I expect the government will be seeing you very soon.
Prove me wrong.
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March 9th, 2007 at 12:57 pmThat’s cute, rachel…too bad http://www.tripmastermonkey.com isn’t my site.
Keep swinging, though…it’s amusing to watch you flail about. ^_^
March 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pmIt’s ok — Gary prob. didn’t notice.
It’s ok — Gary prob. didn’t notice.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pmYour mom, cleaning the smegma out of her crack.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:11 pmWell, I hope McCain paid attention to the whole swiftboat saga, ’cause it’s now bearing down on him (from Raw Story):
Two familiar faces will soon be dogging Senator John McCain on the campaign trail, as activist Vietnam Veterans Jerry Kiley and Ted Sampley resume a campaign they have conducted for years against the Arizona Republican and former prisoner of war.
Jerry Kiley filed papers last week to establish the nonpartisan group Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain. “When people truly get to know him, there’s no possibility they’ll consider him for president of the United States,” says Kiley, who served in the Army and completed the Internal Revenue Service paperwork to establish the “527″ group.
RAW STORY spoke last week with Kiley, as well as Ted Sampley, a North Carolina-based publisher who has been harshly criticizing McCain for more than 10 years. Sampley teamed up with Kiley in 2004 to found a similar group that targeted Senator John Kerry as he ran for president. They see McCain as an apologist for Vietnam’s Communist government who sold out fellow POWs and servicemen missing in action from America’s lengthy war in Southeast Asia.
“We know him best because we’ve dealt with him over the years, and we know how he’s acted,” Kiley said. “We’re taking no salaries, we do this voluntarily, and every penny will go into defeating him.”
[snip]
March 9th, 2007 at 2:31 pmThat John Kerry lied to the Senate, and to the public, is beyond dispute. His testimony that American servicemen “razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan” was based on fabrications from individuals who weren’t even veterans, individuals whom Kerry knew at the time were not really veterans. John Kerry organized and used fraudulent veterans to prepare fraudulent testimony, and delivered that fraudulent testimony to the U.S. Senate. Senator John F. Kerry is a documented liar. He is on film telling his lies. Yet to hear our leftist historians tell it, Senator Kerry is the victim of the Swift Boat Veterans, who ran a television advertisement featuring Kerry’s 1971 testimony in order to show the American public just what sort of “military hero” John F. Kerry really was. The public was certainly never going to find out about Kerry’s meetings with the North Vietnamese from the news media, which had studiously avoided saying a single word about Kerry’s history as an anti-war activist.
Mr. Sanders would have us believe that the Swift Vets’ efforts represented “one of the nastiest, dirtiest negative campaign ads of the entire 2004 presidential campaign, if not in presidential history.” Apparently, telling the truth about Democratic candidates for office is a terrible and nasty thing. For make no mistake: virtually everything the Swift Vets said about John Kerry is documented. If there is a dirty, nasty, dishonest campaign afoot, it is the one by revisionist historians like Wade Sanders to prove — by louder assertion — that John Kerry was horribly wronged… instead of the liar and poseur that he actually was and is.
March 9th, 2007 at 3:36 pmDoesn’t the Senate have to confirm ambassadors? Then this guy’s 15 minutes should be over, right?
March 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pmComment by Patrick1 — March 9, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
Sorry to say this folks, but the snail f*cker has a point here.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:06 pmYou mean the point about all the swiftliar distortions? Just about everyone I knew that went to Vietnam was GLAD Kerry came back against that war. And do some research. The swiftliars were, well lying for bulsh. A draft evader.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:37 pmAs a Vietnam veteran, I’ll never understand these Swift Boat clowns for discrediting their own Vietnam brothers. Why don’t they focus their energies on real cowards. For instance right wing has-been rocker and America’s “Ultimate Coward” Ted Nugent who admitted to urinating and defecating in his pants for an entire week before reporting for his draft board physical to avoid duty to his country during the Vietnam war. Now he earns as much as $25,000 a night preaching about patriotism, free speech and his right to bear arms. This pile of cowardice is truly the epitome of hypocrisy.
March 9th, 2007 at 6:30 pmHi Patrick, I have that ball-gag you wanted. Now get off of Gary for a minute.
March 9th, 2007 at 6:40 pmThese “swift-boat smearers” HAVE A SCREW LOOSE IN THEIR HEADS as do those that FUND them, through money or words, like John Fund, for example! They are ALL BEING MANIPULATED by repugnant-repub rightwingnut crank fudge-pachyderms like Karl Miss Piggy Rove WHO USES THEM AS ONE OF THE KEY-POINTS OF HIS SHIT-SKID-MARKED BESMIRCHED DIRTY-POLITICS PLAYBOOK, WHICH HAS BEEN OVERUSED AND OVERDONE, AND NOBODY BUT THE MOST BEREFT OF BRAINS SLOB-IDIOTS BELIEVE Rove and HIS COWARDLY ILK!!!! HEY, IF YA ARE STUPID AND GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO BELIEVE Rove and the SCUM-SHITS THAT USE SUCH TACTICS, THEN YA BELONG WITH THEM AND YA CAN ALL GO TO HELL WITH THEM, TOO!!!!!
March 10th, 2007 at 2:56 pm