Man, I wish we had one of these in Viet Nam.

Makes me think of the guy who videotaped the woman at the Chick-Fil-A drive thru, figuring he would be lauded as a hero for challenging someone who worked for that company. And it backfired and he became unemployed because of his "principles", which was pretty much what he expected of that woman. And then he played the victim. But he brought it on himself, the woman who tweeted about AIDS in Africa is a whole other story.

Now that everyone has the power to self-publish and broadcast just about anything to the entire world I'm seeing the power that it unleashes in others. I posted a comment on an unsolicited news posting in my FB feed, regarding the Pulitzer Prize picture of the black woman holding out her hands to be handcuffed by the police in riot gear. And everyone in the comment section is going predictably teary-eyed and goose pimply over it, with the usual cliches of iconic, defining, inspiring, uplifting, etc.

And I wrote "don't be so easily manipulated, it's stagey and predictable and Kardashians use this shit to sell sugar water." or something like that. My point being that we have gone from prize-winning pictures of the Viet Nam war (e.g.) to the whole process being co-opted by pop culture, like everything and anything else. Of course I got bombarded with claims of racism and people who pitied my soul. And some were musing on whether to try to track down my employer. I deleted my comment, this world has gotten too fucking weird for me.

I seriously doubt this is a new development. It's a pretty obvious evolution of the totally fictional statistics reported by the military as far back as Viet Nam.

I've seen a bunch of pics of my dad smoking cigars in helicopters. He was a cobra pilot in Viet Nam and evidently helicopter pilots could smoke all they wanted.

But then if you're thinking about it, you never left highschool. It's your Viet Nam, and you're still trapped there.

John Bolton...

never served. Avoided Viet Nam.

Who's the dishonorable one?

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He was doing it all wrong for the first half of the cross! When you're crossing in Viet Nam, pretty much every main road in the cities are like that. You keep walking at a steady pace, not hesitating, keeping eye contact the whole time.

Wickedly empowering, once you get the hang of it.

This video is awesome. It highlights so many reason why I dislike him and his utterly shit political philosophy. (and why I kick myself to this day for giving him money and a primary vote during his run for POTUS)


• "We're going to win in November"
We = GOP. Ron Paul wants the GOP to win big in November. Seriously? Say what you want about Libertarianism, but Republicans are the farthest thing I can think of from the tenets of Libertarianism.

• "We just fired our general"
Damn straight! Biggest redneck, never-ending-war dickhead in the military. Ask Pat Tilman's mother about that one.

• "I lived through it (Viet Nam)."
He was stationed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

• Oil spill & Tar Balls
What a fucking crock of shit. He's downplaying the effects of the BP/DWH oil spill? What a fucking cuntface heap of shit.

• Rand Paul "needs to be a senator". Yeah, like I need a bout of bone cancer.

• "You're putting words out there". Uh, no, Ron. Your son put those words out there, then like a true asshole, did exactly the opposite.

>> ^IronDwarf:

Do you really believe that there are people in this world that are so evil that they believe they are justified in making this happen at the cost of thousands of lives, and who would actually go through with it?


Yes. Apparently you weren't around during Viet Nam and have been asleep for the last 10+ years of the Gulf Wars.

Not thousands, but many Hundreds of thousands of lives have been pissed away in the name of western goals by truly evil men during our lifetime.

Funny. So today I talked to my dad - who happens to be a viet nam vet with depression and dementia- and he was yelling and crying about how his government wants him to kill himself. He couldn't remember where he heard/read it and spent half of our phone conversation shuffling through medicare statements trying to find the evidence. I consoled him and told him that surely he had misheard or misread something. And then I got home and saw this.

This isn't the first time. I am so sick of this. There is NO accountability for the media. It makes me want to scream.

WALTER CRONKITE IF THERE IS A HELL, YOU BELONG IN IT.

During the Vietnam War, Cronkite was responsible for a massive disinformation campaign to turn America’s victories into defeats (the Tet Offensive) and fabricate out of whole cloth Viet Cong victories that were used to demoralize the American public. He should be remembered as one of the great traitors of American history, right there along with Benedict Arnold.

He was worse than Arnold because he was lying to so many more people. Good riddance to him. He can spend his time now in hell with Robert Strange McNamara.

Walter Cronkite betrayed every one of the 58,000 men who died in Viet Nam. He betrayed every man and woman wounded in Viet Nam. He betrayed every man and woman who served in Viet Nam and he betrayed the people of South Vietnam. He stabbed the Viet Nam vet in the back.

Cronkite went to Hue during Tet '68 fairly late in the battle and saw what he wanted to see, but refused an invitation to see the massacred victims the communists had killed and tossed in a mass grave. He chose the side of the enemy and his reports of lies affected his buddy LBJ in his decision making as well.

When LBJ heard of Cronkite’s comments, he was quoted as saying, “That’s it. If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”

Cronkite was a self-serving bastard.

WALTER COMMIEKITE IF THERE IS A HELL, YOU BELONG IN IT.

mkx, there is a difference between a nation being at war and a nation's people volunteering to go sign up for another nation's war. Canada never mobilized their own equipment or munitions in Viet Nam.

Her exact quote was "Canada sent troops to Viet Nam", and the word "sent" makes it untrue.

>> ^joedirt:
Screw that, since when should we be using YT videos...

Welcome to 2009 Dirt. The terrorists have no problem using the new media to publicize real or faux scenes of causualties (or mujahadeen decapitation sessions a' la A.Q. in Iraq did for a while). The good guys (US and IDF) need to be in this arena as well.

War coverage changes with the times:
US Civil War - Telegraph
WWI - Radio
WWII - Film
Viet Nam - TV

TV and especially Newspapers are a dying medium. Here is where it's at. And this allows interested citizens (like you and I) a voice. And while we disagree, I appreciate being able to hear yours.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
^You've seen enough brutality because that's all that people want to share.


Nah, I like the police generally. My brother was a police officer for 25 years. I was on the road with him many, many times. I saw how he treated people first hand, and he never had a chip on his shoulder, and never fucked with people who didn't seriously deserve it.

My brother also was anti-tazer. Thought it was brutal, and would be misused by aggro cops, which we have seen time and time again.

But, this has nothing to do with what kind of shit is being pulled on people, every day, all over the country. But, for the first time in my life, it's being directed toward white kids, which hasn't happened since the viet nam era.

Through the 80's and 90's, cops did this shit to blacks and mexicans, who had no means of making this abuse public. Not until Rodney King.