Vietnam war assholes are now Anti Terrorist assholes

The ''Script''

''During the Bulge two of us were told to take 100 captured Germans back to a holding depot several mile away. We were given Tommy guns. The officer told us we should be back in an hour, wink-wink. The obvious implication was that we should march them out to a field and shoot them. I couldn't do it, and neither could the other guy. We marched them back to headquarters company.'' - My Dad. My dad's vignette was related after we watched a Wally Cronkite ''Twenteth Century'' installment on the Battle of the Bulge one Sunday. ''Had we lost the war, Patton would have been hanged by the Germans as a war criminal,'' he said. Dad did not like Patton, under whom he had served. One lesson I took away from this was, it's real important to win. Another was, ''War is Hell.'' Save for a few scenes from films like ''Saving Private Ryan,'' or ''Band of Brothers,'' there has been scant media acknowledgement of human rage manifesting itself in battle during the Good War (the fight to save Stalin). The reason the 1968 My Lai Massacre became the story it did, in 1972, was the media drum beat had become '' America bad; Viet Cong good.'' To the New York Times, which broke the story, it validated their vision of what America had become. After President Bush declared war on terrorists, and anyone who aided them following 9/11, it took about 12 seconds for that script to reappear, as faithfully reproduced as any Hollywood remake of an earlier success. The latest scene is being directed by Murky Jack Murtha. Cut to NBC NEWS. "There are disturbing new allegations tonight from the Congressman and decorated Marine veteran who stunned the Bush administration about six months ago with his call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.'' You can read the details here - NBC Promotes as 'New' Murtha's Stale Charge About Marines Killing Iraqi Civilians Pretty crappy huh? Here's another lesson I've learned. It helps to follow up a bad movie experience with a happy one. I call this ''My meeting with Murtha, Williams, and Miklaszewski.'' ''We're trying to get Rodger to take his Prozac before he posts stuff. He won't listen to us at all. Say a Hail Mary for him.''