Comments on: The Atlantic Prison Experiment

By: Mellifluous

Mellifluous — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:27:08 +0000

Yes and no. Thomas Young of “Body of War”: “We Didn’t Volunteer Where You Sent Us to Go”. I.e., he signed up for Afghanistan and knew that Iraq was wrong. Signing up for Afghanistan was his volunteering; going to Iraq was a draft.

By: TheKenoshaKid

TheKenoshaKid — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:14:23 +0000

He should enlist so someone who never wanted to be there in the first place can be relieved in Iraq.

There is no draft. No one is in the military who didn’t want to be there.

By: fauxmaxbaer

fauxmaxbaer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:40 +0000

I’m personally not casting stones at anyone. I’ve made mistakes and do believe in redemption. It’s between John Cole and the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster as to what his penance shall be.

By: brantl

brantl — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:08:57 +0000

‘Writes’ not rights, dammit!

By: brantl

brantl — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:08:34 +0000

No chance for redemption, Bobwan? Seems a shame, Cole rights very well for our side.

By: bobwan

bobwan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:16:25 +0000

Fuck John Cole and his apology. Let him die with Bush. He’s only 37. He should enlist so someone who never wanted to be there in the first place can be relieved in Iraq. They are there thanks to people like Cole. I’m not ready to forgive him. He’s now a Youstabee. The man was a traitor to the constitution in the first place, now he’s a traitor to the traitors. I should trust him? Not.

By: dowah

dowah — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:32:45 +0000

Re lori @ 8
“As Glenn Greenwald pointed out recently, when it comes to apologizing for your wrongness on the Iraq War, John Cole got it right:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=9942″

Thanks for that.
Hillary might have swept the primaries had she adopted that post as her campaign platform.

By: cleek

cleek — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:30:12 +0000

why the fuck do people read her ?

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:18 +0000

As Glenn Greenwald pointed out recently, when it comes to apologizing for your wrongness on the Iraq War, John Cole got it right:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=9942

Of course, Cole is a FORMER rethug, nevertheless, his post should be emailed to all wingnuts who can’t bring themselves to say “Jeebus, did I screw up”.

BTW, if you think Kristol is pathetic, check out the newly minted “Fixed News Contributor” Karl Rove. According to the “architect”, not only was the invasion spot on, but it’s going swimmingly over there! The surge is working, blah, blah, blah. He ain’t gonna be doing a John Cole, evah!

By: moondancer

moondancer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:04:06 +0000

If you read One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest but did not see the movie, the above is your image of Nurse Ratchet.
The correct response to pontificating ad nauseum on the benefits of the Iraq colonization is to apologize profusely for being a war criminal then crawling under a rock for a few decades.