Comments on: It’s going to be a long five months http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:18:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: hawkseye36 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463163 hawkseye36 Mon, 26 May 2008 15:47:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463163 <p>Hillary made a mistake? You’re far too kind, Attaturk.</p> <p>She had said it once before and a couple of her campaign staff have repeated it. She’s continued to discuss it in order to keep it alive. </p> <p>It’s like the Bosnia sniper fire only more disgusting.</p> Hillary made a mistake? You’re far too kind, Attaturk.

She had said it once before and a couple of her campaign staff have repeated it. She’s continued to discuss it in order to keep it alive.

It’s like the Bosnia sniper fire only more disgusting.

]]> By: hawkseye36 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463151 hawkseye36 Mon, 26 May 2008 15:38:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463151 <p>Trotta was a fine TV reporter during Vietnam. It’s shocking that she has sunk so low.</p> Trotta was a fine TV reporter during Vietnam. It’s shocking that she has sunk so low.

]]> By: snakedoctor http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463126 snakedoctor Mon, 26 May 2008 15:04:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463126 <p>In 1968 I was rigging shrapnel-ridden helicopters out of a very scary Special Forces encampment named Thuong Duc, RVN. The place was under constant mortar barrage, so my ship left me on the ground to await a hook driver foolhardy enough to attempt a recovery.</p> <p>Around dusk, after several tense hours of listening to increasingly bad news from the radio in the command bunker, I got word the recoveries were being called off. During a lull in the mortar fire, my helicopter landed and I ran out to make a getaway. As I boarded the aircraft, I noticed Ms. Trotta and a TV camera crew pop out of their hiding places and scramble towards us anticipating a lift out of that hellhole. We were loaded to the limits of weight and space, so I had to jump out and frantically motion them back to the bunkers. As darkness fell, our ship made its escape from the valley while an AC-47 crew lit up the sky with its miniguns. I felt really bad about leaving somebody to spend the night in an outpost under siege and hoped they would somehow find a safe way out.</p> <p>After reading Ms. Trotta’s recent views on political assassination, I don’t feel that bad anymore.</p> In 1968 I was rigging shrapnel-ridden helicopters out of a very scary Special Forces encampment named Thuong Duc, RVN. The place was under constant mortar barrage, so my ship left me on the ground to await a hook driver foolhardy enough to attempt a recovery.

Around dusk, after several tense hours of listening to increasingly bad news from the radio in the command bunker, I got word the recoveries were being called off. During a lull in the mortar fire, my helicopter landed and I ran out to make a getaway. As I boarded the aircraft, I noticed Ms. Trotta and a TV camera crew pop out of their hiding places and scramble towards us anticipating a lift out of that hellhole. We were loaded to the limits of weight and space, so I had to jump out and frantically motion them back to the bunkers. As darkness fell, our ship made its escape from the valley while an AC-47 crew lit up the sky with its miniguns. I felt really bad about leaving somebody to spend the night in an outpost under siege and hoped they would somehow find a safe way out.

After reading Ms. Trotta’s recent views on political assassination, I don’t feel that bad anymore.

]]> By: GregB http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463119 GregB Mon, 26 May 2008 15:01:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463119 <p>All we hear is Radio Hutu.</p> <p>-G</p> All we hear is Radio Hutu.

-G

]]> By: Knut http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463095 Knut Mon, 26 May 2008 14:25:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463095 <p>People like Liz Trotta need to experience gut-wrenching fear, the kind that comes from a loud knock on the door and three heavily-armed FBI or Secret Service agents demanding that she take a short ride with them to be interrogated, you know, the way they do to tourists coming in by air to the United States. Just one or two events like that would depollute the airwaves.</p> People like Liz Trotta need to experience gut-wrenching fear, the kind that comes from a loud knock on the door and three heavily-armed FBI or Secret Service agents demanding that she take a short ride with them to be interrogated, you know, the way they do to tourists coming in by air to the United States. Just one or two events like that would depollute the airwaves.

]]> By: DrDick http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463088 DrDick Mon, 26 May 2008 14:11:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463088 <p>They are revealing their true selves more and more in this election cycle. It would seem that the Legions of the Damned can no longer conceal themselves.</p> They are revealing their true selves more and more in this election cycle. It would seem that the Legions of the Damned can no longer conceal themselves.

]]> By: wrensis http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463080 wrensis Mon, 26 May 2008 14:06:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463080 <p><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2008/05/lotta-take-obama-out.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.juancole.com/2008/0.....a-out.html</a><br /> Juan Cole has a similar post today.</p> http://www.juancole.com/2008/0…..a-out.html
Juan Cole has a similar post today.

]]> By: boogiecheck http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463024 boogiecheck Mon, 26 May 2008 13:09:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1463024 <p>Attaturk, I have to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/25/hillary-clintons-rfk-gaff_n_103452.html" rel="nofollow">disagree.</a> </p> <p>This wasn’t a one time thing.</p> Attaturk, I have to disagree.

This wasn’t a one time thing.

]]> By: RevDeb http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1462996 RevDeb Mon, 26 May 2008 12:27:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1462996 <p>Has everyone disappeared? No one but me on <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/remembering-lost-honor/" rel="nofollow">Scarecrow’s excellent thread</a>.</p> Has everyone disappeared? No one but me on Scarecrow’s excellent thread.

]]> By: Pat2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1462991 Pat2 Mon, 26 May 2008 12:09:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/its-going-to-be-a-long-five-months/#comment-1462991 <p>OK — #23 was supposed to be a reply to me. My bad. Off to find caffeine.</p> OK — #23 was supposed to be a reply to me. My bad. Off to find caffeine.

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