This is where I come from
God this is infuriating. The dipshit said this a while ago, but I just saw it again here, headlining a very anti-american blog chronicling the dead from both sides of the war.
"The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable. ... It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."
Who said that? Representative George Nethercutt (R), the voice for my hometown in this nation's Legislature. Sickening.
That's not exactly the whole context, and he surely didn't intend it to be that pointed. Regardless, I'm sure he meant what he said. This doesn't make him evil or a murderer, just blind to the fundamental flaws in the pro-war position.
posted by Luke @ 12:59 PM
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Yeah, I saw that last fall in the Seatlle Post Intelligencer http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/143771_nethercutt14.html. Almost worse, there was a bad editorial a few days after: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/144006_iraqspined.html that seemed to imply that his remarks meant that the news shouldn't cover troop deaths. That's a little unfair. I don't think that's what he (Nethercutt) meant. I think he was just toe-ing the party line in trying to highlight something that was going well (even if we know that the construction *isn't* really going well).
Still, I took a little heart in the home state when Representative Jim McDermott (D, 7th district) http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/, was dishing out the good stuff in Fahrenheit 9/11. He's quite a bit more sensible than George Nethercutt (can you think of *anyone* you like named George? George Harrison died, but I was fairly ambivalent about him. George Foreman? .... again, ambivalence ....).
Only some of the people from Washington are morons, though. Need help identifying them? Okay, here's a hint: Nethercutt represents the 5th district, which is located where? ... why the east side, of course! http://www.leg.wa.gov/common/maps/congdist.htm . Go, Spokane! A lot of the other Washington residents are okay.
You know, some people might think things like Nethercutt said, but it is *so* inappropriate for a *representative* to say something like that on record; at least, when phrased that way. If that's really what he thinks, couldn't he have said something like, "It's sad that we're losing these soldiers, but, hopefully, with the way the reconstruction is going, we'll have the rest home soon," or something like that? Much more sensitive, and less easily misinterpreted, even if it is a little trite.
Also, the blog you linked to *is* unamerican: it has links to the New York Times *and* the Washington Post, which are both *liberal* papers (insert sharply drawn breath sound here).
--Mike Sheffler
Oh, one last thing, Nethercutt is running against Murray (D) for the *Senate* this fall http://www.nethercuttforsenate.com/ (note that his site has one of those stupid non-blogs that I mentioned in a recent story on my site). Presumably, so that he can be a tool on a more effective, senatorial level. Remember to vote.
Yep, the Cascades more or less bifurcate the moronic from the differently stupid. That is the knee-jerk liberals on the one side and the ignorant conservatives on the other.
I tolerate the liberals more easily because I tend to agree with the ideals they blindly subscribe to.
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