STAN GOFF Supports the Troops

[Karenina]

http://www.counterpunch.org/goff06152005.html

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Tricky thing, loyalty.

Nowadays, when I talk with some of you, or when I hear conversations recorded with you, I hear many who have very serious reservations about these wars of occupation. I had more than reservations from the get-go about Iraq and Afghanistan, and I opposed them as hard as I could, and so did millions of other people around the world.

But that brain-dead piece of shit in the White House who is legally your boss, and all his handlers, starting with Vice President Dick "Halliburton" Cheney they sent you to do this thing anyway.

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Since they'd made up their minds, they didn't want to hear anything except rosy scenarios for their plans, because these reptile-minded, preppy gangsters are like spoiled children who can't abide anyone fucking up their toy-emperor fantasies.

But when those fantasies did get fucked up, by the realities they ran so hard to escape, they continued to pursue their grim agenda in spite of the mounting consequences, because they don't pay those consequences.

If I had my way, we would issue the whole shriveled, manicured lot of them their assault rifles, put them aboard an Air Force transport, tighten the leg straps on their static line parachutes, and boot their sorry asses out from 800 feet right over the middle of Ramadi ­ where they could drop their harnesses in the street and explain democracy to the locals.

[Tinoire]

1. Kick-ass article! Stan ROCKS!

If I had my way, we would issue the whole shriveled, manicured lot of them their assault rifles, put them aboard an Air Force transport, tighten the leg straps on their static line parachutes, and boot their sorry asses out from 800 feet right over the middle of Ramadi ­ where they could drop their harnesses in the street and explain democracy to the locals.

I'll help you Stan!

Thanks for posting this :hi:

[Karenina]

6. Hi, Tinoire!!!

:hi::loveya::hi:

[Karenina]

31. UPDATE!!! EXTRA, EXTRA!

Read all about it! Stan has a few more things on his mind!

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12737&l=i&size=1&hd=0

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Bless his heart!

I wonder if the freepers will call him a commie too?

Thanks Stan and may your son rest in peace and may this cabal be tried at the Hague for murdering him.

[Karenina]

3. Too many dead kids...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. That's the kind of plain language approach that I really like to see!

[Karenina]

5. Plain-spoken English.

;-)

[Karenina]

7. What?

No Stan Goff fans here??? :freak:

[Tinoire]

8. HI Karenina!

HUGE Stan Goff fan right here! :hi:

[Karenina]

11. Did I MISS SOMETHING?

Was his son killed???

[Tinoire]

21. I honestly do not know and have been trying to find out!

His son is in the 82nd Airborne and was shipped out 2 summers ago but more than that I don't know!

[seemslikeadream]

9. I just got back

Thanks Karenina


:hi:

[Tinoire]

High time!

:hi: & Welcome back!

[Tinoire]

22. High time!

:hi: & Welcome back!

[Karenina]

27. Naaaa Duuuuu!!!!

:hi::loveya::hi:

[many a good man]

10. He's a modern day Smedley Butler

He speaks directly to the troops. They can't NOT listen to him, even if they disagree.

The ultimate show of disrespect to our troops, and to our democracy, is staging bullshit wars. "Preppy gangsters", indeed. We're not their thugs.

Peace

[Karenina]

13. Indeed he is!

[G_j]

12. "reptile-minded, preppy gangsters" ... nominated

don't hold back Stan!
reptile-minded, preppy gangsters... reptile-minded, preppy gangsters..

:applause::applause::applause:

[malmapus]

14. GO STAN!!! 3rd Group in the house

He does me proud, I only wish I had the talent to write as well as alot of folks out there.

Funny thing about those 800 foot static line jumps, you don't go with a reserve. Based on the fact that if your chute has a malfuntion, there wouldn't be any time to deploy it.

[Karenina]

16. Check out his blog from today...

http://www.stangoff.com/

6/17/2005
STUFF TO DO… to help stop the war
Filed under: General, Imperialism, Military, Energy War, Repression & Resistance — Stan @ 8:02 am

Stan Goff

The war in Iraq is degenerating… a lot. For American troops, Iraqi police, and Iraqi civilians, the last two months have been filled with dread, death, and disfigurement. In spite of around-the-clock spin by the administration and show-dog obedience by the bouzhie-press, the reality of the war is filtering into the public’s consciousness...

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The Bush administration carries on with a brave face – being far removed itself from the smell of burning vehicles and bleeding bodies – secure in the knowledge that they cannot and will not have to run for re-election. The polls that show 60 % of Americans now believing the war was wrong have no effect on them, because they are securely situated in power, and they can continue for the next 3.7 years to roll the dice in Iraq with other people’s lives and hope for a miraculous breakthrough.

[harrison]

15. kick this.

[Karenina]

17. Thank you, Harrison.

Stan Goff has street creds. It is clear that most Amis have not really "grokked" the magnitude of the atrocity that is being committed IN THEIR NAMES. EVERY DAMNED DAY.

[PunkPop]

18. Stan Goff rocks.

Hard!

[G_j]

19. kick

[Karenina]

20. Where's the traction, G_j?

Where are those who can relate to what Hackmann (may he rest in peace) Goff, Benderman, Cindy Sheehan (on behalf of her DEAD son) Mejia, and the DOZENS of those whose accounts I've read and names I cannot remember
due to short-term memory middle-age brain farts??? All of those brave souls caught up in the *MIC nightmare who dare say NO aloud have EARNED the support of us all.

How about all those "lifers" who are now redundant??? Fat old farts who said YEARS AGO, (paraphrasing) "This shit is FUCKED," in comfortable retirement...

THEY prosper, OUR KIDS are in the firing line...

[G_j]

26. what I just cannot fathom

is how anyone in this country who is old enough to have known even a little of the nightmare and national tragedy called Vietnam, would not be FURIOUS right now! Stan expresses the outrage and the clarity of mind to say it how it is. Why aren't there millions as outraged over the murder? Cindy Sheehan says her son was murdered, that is the truth. America is struggling for it's very soul.

[Karenina]

28. I don't get it either.

:cry::scary::cry:

[G_j]

29. kick

[Solly Mack]

23. He ain't never lied.

[Karenina]

25. Solly, seem sometime

folks be a-feared of folks who simply TELL THE TRUTH.
Specially when they be speaking that truth to power...

[annabanana]

24. Brilliant article..

Boy, can that guy WRITE!

[Karenina]

30. Kick for Sunday readers.

Stan says, 'It's ENOUGH now!'

[G_j]

32. kick