Says What?

[Bogart]

Douche Bag says this.

In an essay written after the September 11 attacks, Ward Churchill said the World Trade Center victims were "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews. Churchill also spoke of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/31/professor.resigns.ap/index.html

 

[itsbob]

Douche Bag says this.

In an essay written after the September 11 attacks, Ward Churchill said the World Trade Center victims were "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews. Churchill also spoke of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/31/professor.resigns.ap/index.html

But let a college student write a paper about spanking students.. where's the justice??

 

[J.South]

Well this is a touchy subject and he did make an extreme comparison but on the other hand the Worlds gov'ts basically either ignored or had a hand in what was went on over there.

 

[Lenny]

But the guy retains his teaching position, tenure and other privileges. Oh, wait! This is the University of Colorado. That explains a lot. "Los Angeles in the Rockies!"

 

[Hello6]

I hate to get all stereotypical, but *DUDE* could he look any MORE like a tree hugging, pot smoking hippy liberal? He looks like an ulgy woman.

 

[vraiblonde]

Don't say "douche bag" in thread titles!!!!!

O'Reilly was talking about this guy last night.

Hamilton College President Joan Hinde has said that "however repugnant one might find Mr. Churchill's remarks," the college was committed to his right of free speech and would not rescind its invitation.

Her email address is jstewart@hamilton.edu if anyone wants to let her know what they think of her ignorant decisions.

 

[Vince]

World Trade Center victims were "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews.

I don't understand how this moron comes up with his comparison?

 

[Bogart]

I think he is trying to make a comparison betwwen how the Nazis treated the Jews, and how Israel treats Palestinians; so that justifies trying to kill Jews in NYC by crashing into the Jew Trade Centers :shrug:

 

[Bogart]

Churchill's essay argues that the Sept. 11 attacks were in retaliation for the Iraqi children killed in a 1991 U.S. bombing raid and by economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations following the Persian Gulf War.

The essay contends the hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11 were "combat teams," not terrorists.

It states: "The most that can honestly be said of those involved on Sept. 11 is that they finally responded in kind to some of what this country has dispensed to their people as a matter of course."

The essay maintains that the people killed inside the Pentagon were "military targets."

"As for those in the World Trade Center," the essay said, "well, really, let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break."

 

[Bogart]

http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html

 

[vraiblonde]

And this guy is a professor at a major university! WTF?????

 

[Railroad]

I'd say kick him out...all the way out...of the COUNTRY...but that would violate our much-abused right to free speech.

 

[Bogart]

And this guy is a professor at a major university! WTF?????

He was head of his department until this.

 

[Bogart]

There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel killed on September 11 fill that bill. The building and those inside comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World Trade Center . . .

Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" – a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" – counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

 

[Bogart]

The men who flew the missions against the WTC and Pentagon were not "cowards." That distinction properly belongs to the "firm-jawed lads" who delighted in flying stealth aircraft through the undefended airspace of Baghdad, dropping payload after payload of bombs on anyone unfortunate enough to be below – including tens of thousands of genuinely innocent civilians – while themselves incurring all the risk one might expect during a visit to the local video arcade. Still more, the word describes all those "fighting men and women" who sat at computer consoles aboard ships in the Persian Gulf, enjoying air-conditioned comfort while launching cruise missiles into neighborhoods filled with random human beings. Whatever else can be said of them, the men who struck on September 11 manifested the courage of their convictions, willingly expending their own lives in attaining their objectives.

Notice how all these guys sound exactly alike; Bill Maher, the idiot who wrote the paper about Pat Tillman. Where are they getting the script?

 

[Bogart]

Evil – for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept – was perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline Albright, squatting in her studio chair like Jaba the Hutt, blandly spewing the news that she'd imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq.

 

[Bogart]

In trying to affix a meaning to such things, we would do well to remember the wave of elation that swept America at reports of what was happening along the so-called Highway of Death: perhaps 100,000 "towel-heads" and "camel jockeys" – or was it "sand ******s" that week? – in full retreat, routed and effectively defenseless, many of them conscripted civilian laborers, slaughtered in a single day by jets firing the most hyper-lethal types of ordnance. It was a performance worthy of the nazis during the early months of their drive into Russia. And it should be borne in mind that Good Germans gleefully cheered that butchery, too. Indeed, support for Hitler suffered no serious erosion among Germany's "innocent civilians" until the defeat at Stalingrad in 1943.

Fails to see his own Irony. This is so poorly written anyone who has taken his class should demand a refund. His credentials have to be counterfiet. Not one citation to support any of the 'facts' in this piece, he even attributes direct quotes to 'some guy'.

 

[Bogart]

There were, after all, far more pressing things than the unrelenting misery/death of a few hundred thousand Iraqi tikes to be concerned with. Getting "Jeremy" and "Ellington" to their weekly soccer game, for instance, or seeing to it that little "Tiffany" an "Ashley" had just the right roll-neck sweaters to go with their new cords. And, to be sure, there was the yuppie holy war against ashtrays – for "our kids," no less – as an all-absorbing point of political focus.

 

[FromTexas]

Please use the quote feature and turn off that sig of blinding gayness! It haunts my dreams now. Im always down a tunnel with a voice saying, "Run into the crotch! Run into the crotch!" -- Im not sure yet if its heaven or hell on the other side.
:shrug:

 

[willie]

Please use the quote feature and turn off that sig of blinding gayness! It haunts my dreams now. Im always down a tunnel with a voice saying, "Run into the crotch! Run into the crotch!" -- Im not sure yet if its heaven or hell on the other side.
:shrug:

I agree about the quote feature.