The "Marlboro Man" Tells About Life In Iraq
By Nicole Belle Monday Mar 17, 2008 4:50pm
This photo has become an iconic image of the Iraqi invasion and occupation, dubbed "The Marlboro Man." BBC America (with correspondent Dan Rather) looks at the man in the picture, James Blake Miller, and his views on why we're in Iraq and how he's coping now stateside.
I can’t identify with “home” any more. You drift from place to place, searching to find the one place you do feel comfortable that you can stick around, you can stay. It’s like your looking for that one place that gives you peace of mind.
America’s always been looked at as the world’s police. And we’ve done that for a long time. There’s nothing wrong with helping people out. But when it comes down to, you know, okay, in order for us to do this, we’re gonna run your country, it doesn’t work like that. There’s a fine line between helping someone and you know, more or less taking over. And I feel that we do that. And I think we’ve really crossed that boundary with Iraq.
When I look at the picture, I don’t see much of nothing. Make of it what you want, what you will. I was just doing what the hell I was told at the time. I didn’t ask for it, never did want nothing to do with it.
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This sort of dirty face is common where diesel trucks without exhaust controls.
People making it into a symbol are better off listening to his words.
"I didn't ask for it, never did want nothing to do with it." Huh????
What the hell did you think you were signing up for??? Let me guess, he also voted twice for Chimpy and is a hughe supporter of McCain.
Does anyone else think that the cigarette looks photo-shopped in?
The Truth Hurts @ 2:
It would be nice if the posters on this blog, while rightly opposing the war, didn't disrepect the soldiers.
Also, you should check out this documentary that the LA times and MediaStorm produced on Miller.
http://mediastorm.org/0020.htm
Richard @ 4:
Grow a spine and quit hiding behind the troops and the flag. Just because someone wears an uniform it doesn't guard them from scrutiny.
What we are doing, have done to Iraq is just a distant reflection-mirror image of the USA.
We're spiraling out of control at home and no one knows what the hell to do or how to fix it.
"I can’t identify with “home” any more. You drift from place to place, searching to find the one place you do feel comfortable that you can stick around, you can stay. It’s like your looking for that one place that gives you peace of mind."
Reminds me of the Vietnam War vets I've know who drugged/drank themselves to death in the years after the war over the confusion and guilt of what they had done.
The ones who either bought the vietnam/righteous war meme and it was "all good by them" fared ok, and the ones who went hard anti-war/anti-military did ok.
It was the ones socio-psychologically stuck in the middle who had the problems.
I've been keepting track of Mr. Miller since he came home.
I wish him nothing but the best but I fear his life is going to end badly.
errrr paul in la, that sort of dirty face is common in the military in an active combat zone where the troops are using camo paint which is what that is.
truth hurts, although you seem to want to further the false meme that troops support war amd war mongers the reality is usually quite different. I don't know about this former soldiers attitude on it but I do know that a great many soldiers NEVER supported the war in Iraq or the bush regime. But thanks for pushing the gop talking points.
that pic looks really photoshopped
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 6:
Didn't say that it doesn't protect them from scutiny but they should be given a little respect and not be subject to snarky speculation. We don't know if this guy supported Bush or supports McCain and we certainly don't know that he enlisted in order to fight in Iraq.
The Truth Hurts @ 2:
Listen to the report: He wanted to escape the coal mines, which are viewed as the only employment opportunity in his town. He viewed joining the Marines as the way to get out. That's a pretty common reason people join the military and a reason recruiting targets poor communities.
Richard @ 4:
It would also be nice if people stopped volunteering for the armed services in a country that has an enormous history of precisely the type of behavior that Mr.Miller is disgusted by.
I wouldn't go as far as claiming to know his voting record, and don't see the point of even guessing, but soldiers are not free from criticism, and it isn't disrespectful to take umbrage with their decisions to enlist in the first place.
The Truth Hurts @ 2:
I believe the young man was referring to his 15+ minutes of fame via the photograph.
let's assume he knew he'd see combat as he enlisted as a Marine post-9/11. OK?
oh, and take a nuprin and untangle the knot in yer panties Francis!
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 3:
Yes it does.
Even stranger he kind of resembles Obama.
My friend was in the Guard long before 9-11. He never expected to be in a war, he was against war and he surely didn't believe the reasons that were given for invading Iraq. He was sent over there for 13 months, in fact he spent his 50th birthday over there.
I feel sorry for this Marlboro man. He's just a kid and he signed up because it was that or breath coal dust the rest of his life. I'm sure the idea of being a military man appealed to him on a lot of different fronts. He could wear a uniform and when he came back he would be called a "hero". Sadly, when he came home he had nothing much more than when he left. I bet there are a lot of young kids just like him who come home to nightmares of what they have seen and done and have no way to seek the help they need.
Paul in LA @ 1:
Yep. And with his words, I'm afraid he might labeled a phony soldier by Limpdick and OReilly.
I think Red Lasso is playing havoc with this site. Real buggy this is the 5th crash I've had.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Anyway think about it.
Sue @ 13:
Ting-a-ling!
If you ever want to have at least a snowball's chance in hell for a decent career in this country, you either go to college or join the military. If you or your family can't afford the former, guess where you wind up. I knew a lot of people in the Air Force who joined solely because they couldn't afford college.
Sad.
Anybody else find it interesting he has the same name as Tom Hanks' character in Saving Private Ryan?
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Yip it's Red Lasso.
6th Crash during there data transfer.
This is weird.
It comes off as satire when he puts two cigs in his mouth while he's riding that motorcycle.
that was stupid footage to keep in.
This guy is the product of a system thats been designed to create soldiers. Whether he volunteered for it or not, no decent human being in their right mind could possibly agree with the mission they have been assigned to nor the policies they've been assigned to do it under (which are based on nothing but lies).
Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 21:
Even Jimi Hendrix was in the Army. 101st Airborne.
This is a tough thing to see whether you support the war or not. Who knows what made him join up - could have been false 9/11 pretenses, after all.
At the same time we need to recognize that his "hate the war love the warrior" angle is really saying "I'm against the war but I'm not one of those UN-AMERICANS who don't support the troops!". It's the result of a very effective right-wing, pro-war propaganda spin. It's working.
I mean are you anti-war or not? Hard to love warriors if you're an advocate for peace. Just a thought. I don't really know where I stand on this one yet. Mostly I can't help but feel deeply concerned for the people over there now and the ones getting royally screwed coming home.
Eric
www.changeany1thing.com
L.A. Confidential @ 27:
Yep. Got kicked out for, among other things, excessive masturbation.
Let's get to the essential truths, here.
I'm a Vietnam vet. Back in my day, at least when you were getting drafted or volunteered and were sent there, you at least had an America that still had industry and good paying jobs in it you could come back to.
Today the military is now all-volunteer. But in todays America, there are no jobs for the young men,so in effect, there is a de facto draft -- either join the military or starve trying to work minimum wage or other shit jobs. So, please stop blaming this very poor young man for trying to get out of Apalachia. The Army and Marines gave him a bullshit story (you've heard them, "Be All You Can Be," An Army of One," "The Few, The Proud") about getting an education and benefits, and the only thing the neo-cons saw these young men for was cannon fodder.
James Blake Miller, I respect your service, sir. Welcome home, and if you ever get up to New York State, this swabbie owes you a beer or two.
Volum Hussein @ 14:
Rusty zOMG! 20 years!1! Shackleford @ 29:
There ya go they still kicking guys out for that? Or did the Military catch on and now days say, nope your not pulling that trick on us soldier?
What war? There is NO war! Does it make it more appetizing to Americans to call it a war over and over, like there is some kind of opposing army somewhere? There is no war. This is an occupation where Iraqis are trying to kick out the occupier the best way they can. They are really no different than America's creators fighting the British Empire.
7th crash. Man whats up with the site today we under attack?
Nicole Belle: Yes, we are. We're doing what we can to keep the servers up.
medlakeguy @ 11:
Either that or Marlboro Man has a strange growth protruding from the outside of his upper lip that closes resembles a cigarette.
Richard @ 31:
Richard @ 31:
I don't believe that the kids who volunteer for the armed services are the enemy. I think it makes much much more sense to criticize the people who sent him to Iraq and the people running the war, especially in the case of this kid who has realized that there are significant problems with what he did there. This guy is an ally in trying to end this war and to snipe at him is just plain stupid.
To think that I called him "the enemy" is just plain stupid.
Why can't I criticize an adult for joining the US armed services, when this country has such an ugly 50+ year history of exactly the type of occupations and invasions that Mr.Miller is against? Even he stated that what we're doing in Iraq, is exactly what we've been doing elsewhere for a long time.
I completely understand the various reasons why people join; discipline/stability in their life, money for college, no prospect for decent work in their hometown- But I will never buy into the notion that the military is the only option for people who don't know where else to go. If the difference is either working at Wal Mart, or invading a country and killing innocent civilians, is it really that difficult to make the *right* decision?
I have great respect for what Mr.Miller and others (think they) have done for us (including a great number of my family members), whether that was misguided or not. But, I also have great pains to know so many voluntarily enlisted when they more than likely knew what the outcome would be.
It's so sad to see Dan Rather and the Marlboro soldier continue to perpetuate the myth that all American men and women who don the uniform are heroic symbols of courage, conviction, and righteous honor whether fighting in Falluja, Haditha, Baghdad, or My Lai. The 'photo' was a time when the Marlboro soldier was dazed and basically incapacitated from shock - so Rather begins the story by saying "where do we find these amazing men ..." etc which totally contradicts that the guy is just your average young soldier and not at all some mythic savior. Then the Marlboro man himself perpetuates another huge lie. He sets up the Falluja battle as a few thousand Marines against hoardes of Al Quida (tens of thousands). WTF? The US military was using jet air support, helicopters, white phosphorus, laser weaponry, sound-wave weapons, and a shitload of high-tech stuff we don't even know about AGAINST Iraqis who basically had rocks, sticks, and a few old AKs. Why is this fucking lie always perpetuated that anyone in a US military uniform is by definition a saint and an American icon close to Jesus?
Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 21:
If you ever want to have at least a snowball's chance in hell for a decent career in this country, you either go to college or join the military. If you or your family can't afford the former, guess where you wind up. I knew a lot of people in the Air Force who joined solely because they couldn't afford college.
That is such nonsense. Our work-force isn't full of people who either went to college or joined the military.
I did neither, and not only did I survive, but I also thrived. Many of my co-workers, same story. And none of us are privileged or come from affluence. I grew up on a farm in BFE Michigan, escaped to a better place, and worked my ass off to scrape by and finally get my head above water.
This isn't an either/or world.
Richard @ 4:
These morons that decide to kill for money deserve what they get.
"I was just doing what the hell I was told at the time. I didn't ask for it, never did want nothing to do with it"....
And THAT is the way it is for all enlisted ranks in any branch of the service... And THAT is why we here in the 'real' world do not have the right to give this guy or any of the rest of the enlisted troops on the ground getting chewed up any shit. Technically the way it works is you disobey an order with scrambled eggs on your hat or gold stars on your shoulders, you get relieved and reassigned..YOU do that same shit as an enlisted man or woman.. Worst case scenario in a hot war? You can end up like Eddie Slovik, best case? Time at hotel Leavenworth and no future once they cut you free... What really happens is you get every shit detail coming down the pike until you either 'shape up and get with the program' or you die (KIA is the technical term) or get maimed..(WIA they'll call it)....whichever comes first...
So for all the santimonious assholes who want to give all these people eyeball deep into this shitstorm with no way out at this particular moment, and, who are in fact someones moms, dads, brothers, uncles, sisters, cousins etc a ration from the comforts of the armchairs, and make no mistake, I'm just as guilty as the next blogger... I'm askin for everyone to take a moment out first... Nevermind considering what you'd do in that situation because obviously you are too smart, too something or other to have made that mistake in the first place... Naw, fuck that shit..
No, I'm asking EVERYONE... To just consider just who is really responsible for the shitstorm these people find themselves in in the first place... And direct your ire, your indignation your rightous anger at those principles responsible for this disgrace...
And then demand IMPEACHMENT! Because when we all give it a thoughtful moments consideration, any logical, humane thinking person knows that marboro guy don't have dick to do with this mess... He just got caught up in it, same as everyone else. We ALL know who really caused this shit.... And that is why impeachment, criminal charges, incarceration, forfiture of assets, CAPITAL punishment for the REAL purps is what is needed, what is necessary... What amounts to the only course for setting this mess straight and having any chance of restoring this nations honor. There is just no mistaking who really needs to catch hell for this...And one of them is now a political pundit... Imagine that shit!
As for me, an ex squid? I got nothing but sympathy for those poor guys and gals following orders in a hot war they didn't ask for any more than we did, riding those hummers, toting those weapons, bleeding and dying all over Iraq because of the hubris, the ego, the duplicity of idiot politicians with no clue and no plan for proper governance of this nation.. Motherfucking assholes, men and women both, who's sole purpose in this, as it has been in everything they do in this life.. Is self agrandizement, attaining and keeping power for its own sake, and greedmongering with a trumped up war as the vehicle to attain those goals...
Those people are the assholes who need to pay the freight on this clusterfuck... NOT this marboro guy, not any of the other enlisted people... The repudiation of the so-called Neuremberg defense only applies generally to officers and political leaders.
Not enlisted personnel except in instances where it can be proven an enlisted person broke the UCMJ and/or international laws independent of orders... The Fallujah massacre comes to mind as a possible instance where some enlisted people went beyond orders to carry out reprisal murder... But to be condemned just for following an order to go on patrol? That led to a firefight? That ended up with people dead and/or wounded? Naw, not buyin....That trooper who followed orders, who did not give in to the urge for revenge, who just did 'what the hell he/she was told to do at the time'... will always get a pass from me. They ought to get a pss from you people too all things being equal... After all, it might just be that these enlisted soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and women and Natl guards could be someone you know too... Including but not exclusive to being a relative......JD
The smoke suggests the cigarette caught the left side of his uniform on fire, which is curious considering the cigarette isn't it.
The LA Times did a multi-part series of articles about this guy and the post-war troubles he has seen -- mental illness, substance abuse, failed marriage, violence, PTSD, etc. Very sad case.
1000 yard stare with product placement.
It is a Corporate War after all.
Jesus Hussein Christ, one can hardly take any fault with anyone in the military without an enormous shitload of people frothing at the mouth, ready to take you out.
These people are people. And not all of them join this shit to do good. There are PLENTY of them who join up to go "kick some arab ass".
Didn't you listen to Winter Soldier? I heard from one soldier who had the words "FUCK YOU" tattoo'd on his arm in Arabic, on his "choking arm" so the Iraqi's could see it as he's cutting off their oxygen.
This guy joined to specifically go and kill people, and not just any people, but specifically BROWN PEOPLE.
Doesn't that absolve the Marlboro man of any and all guilt just as surely as the same excuse absolved those at Nuremburg?
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
I'm having the exact same thing happen. Anyone else?
[Yes. Same thing happening-Sitemonitor]
Lee @ 38:
Hollywood glorification of war. It beats the media reporting close up photos of a US GI blowing the brains out of some innocent Iraqi that did not understand english. It's the "we are the good guys" syndrome.
The Truth Hurts @ 2:
Ever been through eastern Kentucky? As the dude says, it was a way out.
When I look at the picture, I don’t see much of nothing. Make of it what you want, what you will. I was just doing what the hell I was told at the time. I didn’t ask for it, never did want nothing to do with it.
The Nuremberg Defense is a legal defense that essentially states that the defendant was "only following orders" ("Befehl ist Befehl") and is therefore not responsible for his crimes. The defense was most famously employed during the Nuremberg Trials, after which it is named.
Read it and weep.
Before the end of World War II, the Allies suspected such a defense might be employed, and issued the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which specifically stated that this was not a valid defense against charges of war crimes.
Thus, under the Nuremberg Principles, "defense of superior orders" is not a defense for war crimes, although it might influence a sentencing authority to lessen the penalty.
"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."
The United States military adjusted the Uniform Code of Military Justice after World War II. They included a rule nullifying this defense, essentially stating that American military personnel are allowed to refuse unlawful orders.
Those of you who are deriding our soldiers and sailors over the Iraq Occupation would do well to remember that the military does not decide who or where to invade; that is the purview of the civilian command structure (President, Congress, SecDefense, among others). To blame this man, or any warrior, for the invasion is pure idiocy. Focus your hatred on the ones who put our country in this mess, the neo-cons and the Boosh administration. Not the men and women in uniform who, BTW, serve the country, not just your side.
For the record, I have been against the whole Iraq Invasion/Occupation since the beginning; I knew it was a mistake to take our eyes off the ball in Afghanistan, where we had a chance to cripple the only significant terrorist organization out there. But I support the military as an organization, a necessary one, even though it has fallen into a morass not of its own making.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 49:
The only good guys, are the defenders.
The Iraqi's and the Afghani's and Palestinians are the 'good guys'. Rocks, Slingshots. A few homemade bombs.
Give them the missiles, tanks and f-16's. and give the US and Israeli's the Rocks and Slingshots...
Then maybe the "terrorists" on my TV screens and newspapers would be real threats, and not just children burned alive, or shot. Why?
For what?
http://www.deathmasters.com/page1.htm
Nice post Jack.
As a vet, I couldn't agree more. What some people also seem to forget is that not everyone joins the military for the purpose of killing. I joined because my parents wouldn't give me any money for college but made too much for me to qualify for any grants and most low-interest loans. The military was the easiest way for me to earn money for college. Being someone who didn't want to actually do any killing, I became a "weather guesser," thinking my conscience would stay clean.
Unbeknownst to me, that ended up not being the case. Atmospherics are a big part of missile guidance and I now I get to wake up for the rest of my life with blood on my hands.
I didn't ask to go to Iraq. I went because I was ordered to go and disobeying that order would take food out of my children's mouths.
When my time was up, I left, even though my retirement was only 5 years away, because I had to decide what was more important, 2K a month until I die or my values. It wasn't easy and I have a lot of "what ifs" and my family has taken about 5 steps backwards financially, but they support what I did.
As for the people who want to point fingers at the military...well, there's a reason armchairs are so comfortable. A lot of people spend their entire lives quarterbacking from them.
Volum Hussein @ 46:
That is sick and disturbing. Where did you get info on Winter Soldier (the new one)?
Of course its wrong, as Richard said, to assume that this guy went into the military for this reason or supports Bush and McCain (like Truth Hurts suggested).
I agree with Richard, there is no reason to assume the worst about any servicemember. Y'all heard today that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was in the Marines. You'd be wrong if you had assumed stereotypes about him too.
Besides the perceived benefits of the GI bill or career training, its important to remember that recruiters lie. And what about all those slick Madison Ave. ads with Marines fighting fire-dragons and shit? The military even produces video games these days to try to lure in recruits.
You have obviously never worn the uniform of any branch of service for even a single day. The first standing order that any soldier learns is to disobey and unlawful order. Military honor demands that we always be prepared to disobey that rare psycho seargent who orders us to rape an 11-year old girl or while watching some teen Iraqi boys playing soccer make a game of target practice and explode one of their heads with a 50mm shell. Only a civilian totally unaware of military culture would use the excuse that committing an atrocity is excused because you were just following an order.
Tough video to watch. I don't know about everyone else, but it took a good 40 minutes to get the darn thing to play out.
War is hell. I feel for those poor grunts. I was one in Nam, and you worry about staying alive and protecting your buddy....that's it. All this other bullshit is just bullshit when you are on the front lines.
This country is going to pay for this war for a whole generation of injured vets. Those in the back typing papers don't know what this dude is talking about. When your life is on the line, and you are human fodder, it changes your whole life.
As for these numbnuts in this administration, not a one of them knows what this is about. Nearly all have never served, and with the exception of mcbush being a prisoner of war, they have no idea what "war is hell" even means. They think it's "an economic term".
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 33:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174906/philip_k_dick_meet_george_w_bush
Steven Stealhurt @ 23:
And he has the similar pose to what Tom Hank's character was when he said, 'Yes it is, quite a view.'
Anyway I believe politics and this soldier don't mix. And I think its fucked up that some of the posters here are attacking the poor man, based presumptively on his political beliefs. There is no evidence that he supports McCain. There is no evidence he is Republican. Your comments only help to further fuel the claims from the other side that liberals are the same people who spat on Vietnam veterans and called them baby killers in the 70's, or 'don't support the troops'.
The real cancer is the leadership, and to this day I fail to understand how they got a second term.
Navy Hussein Vet and Jack Damage says it all.
jack damage @ 41:
It's the fault of the slaves who think that they need the master that they call "Government"
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 3:
If you get a chance to see the segment, that guy was chain smoking Marly Reds. That ciggy didn't have to be Photoshopped.
Lee @ 47:
What a statement. I haven't seen this kind of REAL soldier bashing on any forum/blog up until now. Comparing US soldiers, kids I grew up with, who really wanted to help out and volunteer in a way most people my age never even think about, with the trials of officers/party leaders/etc at Nuremburg is just historically ignorant. These soldiers aren't running death camps. Save your anger for the politicians and generals who were stupid enough to get us into this mess and do it so badly. Disgusting.
Miller, who joined the USMC to develop a law enforcement career, was participating in the first Fallujah pogrom in 2004 when the picture was snapped.
And his sufferings have continued:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blake_Miller#Early_years
Give the guy another ten years, and he will be sleeping under the bridge being mocked by the O'Reilly of the next decade (the first having blown his own brains out in 2013, during a gun-cleaning accident).
Volum Hussein @ 37:
More than likely? I seriously doubt that. I haven't seen a commercial on TV that says anything about killing women and children. You'd be hard pressed to find one on the "news". They didn't cover all the little underhanded deals we've pulled in South America and elsewhere in high school either. I'd be surprised if the teachers even know. You can fault the parents somewhat.. maybe.. for their own ignorance, but not the kids.
If you want to feel pain. Feel it for yourself. If my family members were thinking of enlisting and I knew what I know now, I'd feel a complete ass for not educating them about their country's history. Gulf of Tonkin, Iran, Iraq, Phillipines... theres certainly plenty of examples. If you (we) don't bother to educate the next generation, we really have only ourselves to blame.
So, from future police career to illegally-deployed Marine, to head case, to motorcycle gang member with ZERO chance of becoming a cop.
Another tragic trajectory sponsored by Bushco, and approved by Bushco's new product, John 'Eternal War for Racism' McAin't.
it took the British media to get this story out
a story about an American icon of a mainly American war.
He looks a bit like Obama the victim. Are you sure this isn't photo shopped?
Ricky @ 64:
Have you ever tried to 'educate' a kid out of being a Marine? I have, several times. I currently have an OVERJOYED cousin who is being deployed to Japan (he and his proud family thinks he's in the clear, when of course he is just midway to his eventual fuckup).
The idea that history, especially when spun from the anti-military leftist perennial lack of context, will change these brave young fools into old farts on blogs is HILARIOUS. Try it some time.
who me @ 67:
You look like a Republican troll. Are you sure you aren't an asshole?
Pete&Pete @ 62:
You think? These first of all are MARINES, not soldiers. Secondarily, the racist USMC I have talked with, over and over and over, are CERTAINLY little better than Nazis or the Rising Sun mass-murderers they teamed up with.
And once you start talking about the MERCENARIES CENTCOM allowed into their illegal clusterfuck, you are MILES away, parsecs away, from Eisenhower's army. Murdering 'Haji's' like throwing away gum wrappers, these modern Marines are just the same as the ones who did the 25+ My Lai massacres in Vietnam. Under orders -- orders exactly like those which drew swift hanging from Allied authorities at Nuremberg and the equivalent tribunal in Asia.
Volum Hussein @ 14:
Thats real ignorant man. The recruiters were all over our High School.. They pitch it like its just a job.. like IBM on career day. They talk about the bonuses you'll make and how fast you can be promoted and how they'll pay for your college. This was in the late 90's... we hadnt had a bad war since Vietnam which none of us could identify with. And you're talking about 16, 17 year old kids.... You can get DEP'd in and go to MEPS at 16 with a parental waiver and swear in and ship off at 17. And these recruiters push it like you wouldnt believe... and if you start wavering they start threatening to take away your scholarships.. or your MOS.. or your enlistment bonuses.
No other job pushes people to join like the military and no other job requires a long-term contract like the military.. but to listen to the recruiters explain it in High Schools to 13-18 year olds its just like working at the local Automotive repair shop but more glamorous and with better benefits.
Traitor! There must be a way to prosecute him! After all, he most certainly knows freedom is on the march in the Middle East. He should go to jail for expressing such slanderous views about his country. He can't possibly love his country, and Freedom and express such views, and we all know that being disillusioned with the behavior of your country (if your country is the USA anyway) is tantamount to being a traitor (unless, of course, he were to quickly join an evangelical church in Texas, find Jesus, and realize it's the gays that make it OK to slam airplanes full of American citizens into our skyscrapers-- then he is OK). Maybe we can get William Kristol to take up the cause. He is for prosecuting his professional colleagues as traitors for reporting the bad behavior of our country. A man of his level of integrity ought to easily be able to help railroad this young man to Leavenworth. I'll bet he could manage it all from the comfort of his living room with his laptop. Kristol is such a faithful warrior for the cause of Freedom. It makes me shudder to think of the courage he has had to muster to fend off the endless onslaught of bits and bytes fired at him daily in his struggle for Freedom and what is righteous, and American. If only this young man had opened his eyes to such noble struggles and sacrifices he wouldn't be the traitor that he is today. Pity.
God I love Freedom! Have you heard? Its on the march again. America stands tall.