Old Fume & Fulminate

I thought we dirty fucking hippies were supposed to be the traitors who root for the enemy. But here’s Ralph “Blood & Guts” Peters on Fox News hoping the Taliban save the US “legal hassles” by dispatching 23-year-old American soldier Bowe Bergdahl:

I’ll give the Fox News lady teeny-tiny props for her itty-bitty demurral. But Jesus H. Christ in Kevlar, shouldn’t the wingnut jackasses who ran around reflexively calling those of us who opposed the Iraq war “traitors!” as if afflicted with some hyper-jingoistic strain of Tourette syndrome be screaming for Peters’ head?

Peters, a retired Lt. Colonel who never served in a war, informs us that in a war zone, “any soldier is aware of where all his buddies are. If it’s a night patrol, you’re aware of where the guy in front of you and behind you is. So we know this private is a liar. We’re not sure he’s a deserter.”

Uh huh. Tell Corporal Pat Tillman how acutely aware all soldiers are at all times of the location of their buddies. Oh wait, you can’t. Corporal Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, as we found out after the government tried to cover up the circumstances of his death and shamelessly used him for pro-war propaganda.

Peters provides another reason he wishes the Taliban would off Private Bergdahl: The soldier allowed himself to be used for propaganda purposes, which, Peters informs us, just isn’t done. Well, it was done by John McCain, who made more than 30 propaganda films for the Viet Cong. So Peters must think McCain is a traitorous scumbag who didn’t deserve to be president, right? Wrong:

I back McCain because we need integrity, experience and courage in our next president.

I knew these bastards were craven hypocrites. But Peters’ wishing aloud for this soldier’s death at the hands of the Taliban on Fox News is pretty shocking, at least to me. I’ll sit here waiting for the wingnut outrage to materialize. Or not.

[H/T: No More Mr. Nice Blog]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 07/20/09 at 08:07 AM • Permalink

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Time to dig out Strange’s classic comment about goons who wank off into bags full of GI Joe soldiers. I bet Peters had a bag in his lap as he was talking.

I say we ask if the Taliban would like to swap their private for a Peters. But first, a moment of silence for all the poor slobs who served under this melon headed schmuck.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 07/20/09 at 09:30 AM

In the great Viet Nam book Dispatches, Lt. Colonels like Peters are singled out for their numbskull, glory-greedy medal-happy tendency to get their men killed. The more decorated the Lt. Colonel, the more those medals were likely to be soaked with American blood. Not to mention Vietnamese, of course.

Thank heaven Peters is just an armchair soldier.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 07/20/09 at 10:20 AM

But Jesus H. Christ in Kevlar, shouldn’t the wingnut jackasses who ran around reflexively calling those of us who opposed the Iraq war “traitors!” as if afflicted with some hyper-jingoistic strain of Tourette syndrome be screaming for Peters’ head?

No. You know why? Because shut up, that’s why!

(Sorry, haven’t been able to get onto Balloon Juice so was feeling nostalgic for one of their snarky memes about right-wing ripostes to reasonable questions.)

Comment by Oblomova on 07/20/09 at 10:42 AM

Wow I can not believe that fool. I really hope none of that soldiers’ family heard him. r can only imagine their rage if they did.

Still if there is any negotiating to be had with the Taliban, we could always swap.

Comment by TheBigotBasher on 07/20/09 at 10:56 AM

Peters is just part of a much broader wave of attitude reversal.

How many times over the last few weeks have you heard former war-hounds suddenly demanding to know just what the hell America is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and why the hell Obama is getting our boys and girls killed in crazy wars we can never win?

It’s like that weird rhetorical jiu-jitsu move in the middle of Bugs’ and Daffy’s classic “Oh, no you don’t”/“Oh, yes, I do.” cartoon argument.

Of course, nobody expected Conservatives to support the military under a Dem President, so the full-body transplant thing is no surprise. But what Peters is doing is inexcusable.