On 08/11/2010 05:51 PM, Stan Hardegree -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 SH> Today, I bought a copy of Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens' memoir, and
 SH> opened
 SH> it to a random page. This is what I found, on the damage done to the
 SH> Pentagon on 911:

Watch the usual suspect attack Hitchens.

 SH> "Should I now also feel protective of that other behemoth, the Pentagon?
 SH> Well, into its outer walls had been flown a nice acquaintance of mine, a
 SH> feisty Republican lady named Barbara Olson. She had managed to get her
 SH> husband on her cellphone to say she had been hijacked, and to him had
 SH> fallen
 SH> the task of telling her that she was mistaken about that. She was not a
 SH> hostage. There were not going to be any 'demands.' She was to be murdered
 SH> in order that others, too, might die. As I tried to picture her reaction, I
 SH> hit a barrier that my imagination was unable to cross."

And then you have the lowest of the low cheering her death merely because
she wrote a book unfavorable to the Clintons.

 SH> A few pages later - on the jumpers, who haunt me to this day.

 SH> "'Look, teacher,' The New York Times reported a child
shrilling as the Twin
 SH> Towers were becomming pyres: 'the birds are on fire.' Here was a sweet,
 SH> infantile rationalization of an uncommon sight; human beings who had
 SH> hesitated too long between the alternatives of jumping to their deaths or
 SH> being burned alive, and who were thus jumping *and* burning, an from much
 SH> more than 300 feet. Nothing I have witnessed since, including Abu Ghrain
 SH> and Guanatanamo and various scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq, has erased
 SH> those
 SH> initial images of the deep and sick relationship between murder and
 SH> suicide,
 SH> or of the wolfish faces of those who gloated over the horror."

And the idiot left are now supporting the construction of a Mosque just a
short walk from Ground Zero. A Mosque that will be a magnet for Islamists
from around the world to attend while gloating of their
"victory."

 SH> What a nice departure from the dregs here to have a man of the left with
 SH> compassion for those who died that day - even the reviled Barbara Olson
 SH> gets
 SH> a kind notice.

A person like Hitchens wouldn't be welcome among the idiot left who haunt FIDO.

Ed

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