as a war veteran (as someone who has watched band of brothers several times), i don’t think those of you that haven’t experienced war can comment with the same sense of loss that i can. also, while i don’t know a guy who died on 9/11, i saw United 93, and that means if you don’t agree with my views you are most likely a traitor.

“… and that is why I will be voting for John Kerry.”

What?

(Imagine a high-pitched carolling tone) Knobbbb-heaaaaaad.

Let’s take a closer look…

Gosh. Because, y’know, knowing people who died in Da Big One is just as traumatic as having (barely) lived through it oneself. And who’s she to brag of having fled the Russians as a girl? When I’ve had relatives who, you know, died while bombing the bejeesus out of her country. And, and, I can say ‘sucking chest wound’, which gives me a little frisson of excitement.
/snark
Yes, I imagine that anyone alive these days knows of someone who died in World War II. And?

except maybe around the American bases that have protected them for the last 60-odd years … unlike the actual enemies they are ignoring at their own doorstep.

Whutwhutwhut? What enemies? And just exactly how have those Murr’kin bases ‘protected’ them for 60-odd years?

Maybe it is hard to understand that it is possible to fight for good causes. Liberating nations. Removing murderous dictators, giving millions of people the chance to vote freely for the first time in their lives. These things aren’t easy, and there are evil men who would subvert these efforts. I thought that should be relatively easy to grasp. But to understand these things, it may be necessary to advance farther in one’s thinking, and that last war hasn’t been over long enough. Maybe the Germans don’t understand war, because they haven’t suffered war. Not like we have.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Gavin, you’re turning me into a Catholic (just because they get better swearing). Has the man no sense of shame? Can he not see that he spends half his time demonstrating that he doesn’t know shit about war, and that there are, ahem, certain similarities between the Bush junta (or should that be ‘cunta’?) and The German Regime That Shall Not Be Named? These similarities are blatantly obvious to the rest of the world, who are sitting about like a pantomime audience shouting “Behind you! It’s the Bush-monster!” while he’s making a twat of himself.

Then, dear reader, then (she says, wiping spittle from lip), he claims that he fights for God, Freedom, 7-Day Trading, and the right to walk naked in the mall of your choice. Completely oblivious to the fact that…uhhh…he…

Damn. Sorry. Got so carried away ranting that I lost it all. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I love how the admiration for the Nazi war machine is just boiling beneath the surface, “once mighty and feared” indeed.

Just to recap, insofar modern Germany is the successor of Nazi Germany it’s all thanks to the Western Allies of World War II who dismissed a Soviet proposal to make unified Germany a neutral and demilitarized state (as in Austria), who set up torture chambers in West Germany, and who let Adolf Eichmann, engineer of the Holocaust, live in peace because they didn’t want to embarass the West German government it had a former high-level Nazi as an advisor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/americas/07nazi.html?ex=1307332800&en=a02750d1b542785e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1669543,00.html

Maybe the Germans don’t understand war, because they haven’t suffered war. Not like we have.

[Cartoon jaw-drop.]

You mean, ‘like I have… on television’? Christ on a fucking pogo stick.

Another blog that requires you to register before you can tell the author just how fucking stupid he is. Funny, that.

(Oh, and Germany has compulsory conscription. And were Jules offered the choice between nine months of military service or an alternative, I’m betting he’d pick the latter. Twat.)

His update is hilarious. So because a recruiter is caught on video being flagrantly racist, all of the PC anti-racist stuff that Germany says is bull, because they are clearly hereditary racists and therefore we can be too or they are racists.

PS, why did they fire that poor recruiter?

Apparently his point is that the Germans are wrong because they were too warlike we had to bomb them into hating war, while they are also wrong because they do not appreciate war enough.

If only those bloody Krauts would be much better at both fearing and loving war.

Did he really say that Germany has never experienced war the way we have? He didn’t, did he?

US WWII Era population: 131,028,000
US Military Deaths: 407,300
US Civilian Deaths: 11,200

Germany WWII Era population: 69,623,000
German Military Deaths: 5,500,000
German Civilian Deaths: 1,840,000

During the Dresden firebombing, people trying to flee to shelter were hindered by their shoes melting to the asphalt. Young boys were being conscripted onto the U Boats by the end of the war, going to almost certain death. Germany was starving.

They’ve done a remarkable thing, owning up to the horrendous evils (the way the US never has about its treatment of First Nation people) and trying fiercely to prevent the Nazi party from ever rising again.

This guy is clearly an uneducated moron.

It’s hard to find a bigger, stupider, jerkier Big Stupid Jerk than ol’ Stools Crittenden here. He’s Six Sigma Stupid.

Maybe the Germans don’t understand war, because they haven’t suffered war. Not like we have.

I refuse to link through to the Crittenden piece. (It was bad enough increasing Instahalfwit’s hits.) Did he actually write this? And he’s got a gig writing for the Kewl Kids?

Anybody know what the requirements are for becoming a citizen of New Zealand? I can’t take Teh Stupid in America any more.

No, you shouldn’t read it, Basharov. I did, and I’ve been kind of lightheaded from teh stoopid ever since. Really, there aren’t superlatives enough to describe the height and breadth and depth of the stupid contained in the Crittenden Cretin’s post.

So Debbie’s a lawyer, and this guy’s a ‘citizen journalist’. My kid should just drop out of high school now. Seriously, he knows all he needs to know to get ahead in this great land. He’s already light years ahead of these dolts.

“Liberating nations. Removing murderous dictators, giving millions of people the chance to vote freely for the first time in their lives. These things aren’t easy, and there are evil men who would subvert these efforts.”

This sounds just like Nazi propaganda circa 1938. All Hitler was doing was liberating Poland & trying to free Russia from a murderous dictator. And who were the evil men subverting Germany’s efforts? Just as today, it’s the liberals( intellectuals, jews, homosexuals, foreigners, socialists…) What do you think Jules would suggest we do with these evil men?

Y’know, if someone actually put this putz in combat, he would (1) run, (2) hide, (3) cry, (4) soil his shorts, and (5) surrender at the first available opportunity. Not necessarily in that order, of course.

And the idea of Perfesser Techno-Dipshit linking to him approvingly is somehow bizarrely appropriate. Reynolds is such a complete douchebag that he can’t even be bothered to do his own chest-thumping chickenhawk routine anymore — he has to farm it out. Now that’s the epitome of lameness.

Maybe the Germans don’t understand war, because they haven’t suffered war. Not like we have.

I think this is the single stupidest thing I have ever read. Hold on, let me check on Kaye Grogan.

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Nope, not nearly as stupid. Hmmm, I know! Let me check the forums at MySpace.

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Well there were some close ones, but still not as stupid. Let’s try Stormfront.

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It was pretty nasty, but not quite as stupid. I dunno, maybe Conservapedia has something.

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Nope. Jeez, what else to try… Hey, someone better let Guiness know about this!

Yes, what would the Germans know about war?

Aside from the fact that, one generation ago, one in ten Germans was killed in a span of four and a half years.

To help put this in perspective, this would be equivalent to the deaths of everyone living in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, San Antonio, Detroit, San Jose, Indiannapolis, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Columbus, Austin, Baltimore, Memphis, and Milwaukee. In four years.

Americans have no fucking conception of what war is.

Apologies for any typos – I had minor hand surgery today.

I think that pummeling the love of war out of an ultra-racist, warmongering people is not such a bad idea.

I’d go along with that statement, too… but then he jumps the track and starts talking about Germans!

Yah, I’ll second Jillian and Herr Doktor. For the love of cute furry animals, isn’t there something we can do?

How about a whist drive?

Where’d everybody go?

“Haw haw”?

Like…. Haw-haw?

Very subtle…

well played, sir.