The Big Dog didn’t like what I had to say about Crazy Mark Noonan last night. Here is what I think of his response:

“This guy Adam wants everyone to believe that there is widespread abuse of prisoners and that we are raping and killing them.”

It is the Red Cross that reports “humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions” in Gitmo. The whole premise of Noonan’s statements were that these groups do not care about the United States, only in making us look bad to the world. Personally I think that nonsense.

“Adam likens us to the savages who are cutting off heads and killing innocent civilians. I know some innocent civilians have been killed but we are not targeting them.”

Dahr Jamail who writes for the NewStandard in fact does report targeting of civilians in Iraq. Jamail brings us eyewitness reports like this one: “I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks,” he said. “This happened so many times.” This one too: “The Americans shot them with rifles from the shore,” he said. “Even if some of them were holding a white flag or white clothes over their heads to show they are not fighters, they were all shot..”

“Perhaps it is just me, but the part about more importantly the Iraqi people rubs me the wrong way.”

I think it is just him. Of course the Iraqi people are important! We invaded their sovereign nation saying we were going to overthrow their government in order to free them and make America safer at the same time. We wrecked their schools and their hospitals and their electrical utilities. Now many of them are dead. Freedom isn’t free, I guess. Don’t go bringing 9/11 into this either. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and we all know it. Of course I’m pissed that Americans died in New York and Washington D.C. Of course I’m pissed that Saddam murdered his people. I care about human beings and that is why I’m apposed to this aggressive policy towards the world and this war in Iraq. Did I want Saddam to continue murdering his people? Of course not. Did I want America to go in and murder his people for him? Absolutely not. How is that unclear?

“I can not understand how anyone who witnessed the attacks on 9/11 could be against fighting those responsible.”

Exactly. When are we going to fight those responsible? I hated the war in Afghanistan too of course but we could have finished there instead of going to Iraq even though the nation was not responsible for 9/11. We have lost over 1200 American lives there in Iraq and where is bin Laden?

“I think we can see his agenda.”

What is my agenda?

“I think this lefty donk (who I believe claims to be an Independent) has Post Election Stress Disorder.”

I’m no “donk”, but I am a lefty. I am in fact an independent as the parenthesis suggested. I did however vote for Kerry and I would have voted for Clinton. He is right. I hate the election results. I probably did call Republicans morons after the elections. I take it back though, mostly.

“The site is laced with hugs and kisses for the former pervert in chief.”

What’s with all of the Bill Clinton bashing at the end? What would I have said about the fighting of the Clinton years? Well, since he had no major wars like the Bush administration has, I’d say it’s hard to connect these two. Today I would have been apposed to the military actions though I believe. Back then I was in my teens though and what did I care about government or politics? People have asked me that before and I can only say I don’t know. As far as I can tell I’ve only mentioned Bill Clinton once and that was a quoted opinion about his book. So I don’t know what he’s talking about with the hugs and kisses line.

That’s that, though. I think he makes a lot of assumptions about me, which is funny. I don’t assume to know anything about him and I won’t try to use it to prove him wrong. It’s all good though. I’m glad Big Dog took an interest in my writing.