From one of my co-workers who is also a friend. He listens to rightwing radio and it seems all his friends are rabid right wingers. He's constantly forwarding a bunch of racist bullshit from his friends about Obama because he knows it'll piss me off.
See below the squiggle
so this is the original email. It came accompanied by the pictures of Ambassador Stevens being hauled out of the consulate by the Libyans that we've all seen. I don't know how to embed pics, sorry:
"Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012, 5:14 PM
OK, this is a warning, the pics below are very graphic so delete this email if you don't have the whatever to look at them. I looked at them and was disturbed and then pissed. Surely our govt. has seen these as well. It blows my mind that very little has been done about this by the current administration. In my opinion diplomacy has failed, its past time for action. I don't care whether or not the Libyan's did this or terrorists, I'm hitting the return key several times to move the pics down the page so they don't show when you open this email. I'd make sure no one is around before you look and see what it is like to know that you are done. No one is going to come and help you and your government will forsake you.
Its clear to me why I'm not in a position of power in this country, the speed that I would have retaliated with and the severity would have been God awful.
Hit the delete button now if you don't want to see pictures like this..................................................."
My response:
1 – there has been no apology by anyone for what happened. Your friends should try reading a few actual news articles and turn off fox and rush, et al to get actual facts.
2 – By all means your friend should put on his BDU’s and Kevlar helmet and flak jacket and arm himself with his M16 and go charging into Libya and ketch them thar killers. Or maybe send his children to do it. That’ll teach ‘em.
3 – those pictures were of the people who found the Ambassador and were taking him to safety then to the hospital. Just fyi
He sends me back:
"he will love what you think of #3"
I reply:
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# 3 has not been disputed by anyone. Except for your right wing nutjobs. You can send him my response. And the picture of his head exploding after he reads it."
He forwarded to his friend and I got the following response:
"Sounds like another liberal drinking Kool-Aid!!!!!"
I'm really sick of the politicization of this whole incident. I'm sick of rightwingers sitting back in thier feifdoms talking about war when they won't go themselves or send their children to fight these wars they seem to want to always be in.
I'm a vet. I've never seen combat, but I was stationed in Frankfurt during the first Gulf war. I was pulled out of a cushy job in a comm center and thrown out on guard duty in the bitter winter because all our MP brigades were deployed to the gulf. I was sent to guard US buildings while there were Turks and other people rioting and throwing molotov cocktails at our buildings for our involvement in Kuwait. We were sent out to do guard duty with our M16's strapped to our back with NO ammo to protect us. Why can't these right wing nutjobs understand that there is a whole lot more going on in the Middle East and Africa than they really understand and that WAR and endless retaliation is NOT the answer?
Sorry for the rant, but I had to vent.
Peace!