{"id":193785,"date":"2008-11-17T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/17\/tom-friedman-suck-on-this\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T03:15:00","slug":"tom-friedman-suck-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/17\/tom-friedman-suck-on-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Friedman, Suck on This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Friedman, the New York Times Columnist, and blithering idiot, who is always suggesting that we should give the Iraq War, “Another 6 Months,” is having financial difficulties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You see, he married into money, a lot<\/span> of money. His wife is an heir to the General Growth Properties fortune, and since September, the value of the stock in the company in which the family wealth is held has fallen in value from a high of $51\/share to 35\u00a2 a share (See stock chart below), taking the value of the family fortune from $3.6 billion to $25 million.<\/p>\n

In fact, GGP is warning of a potential bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As to my saying, “suck on this,” I am actually quoting Thomas Friedman<\/a>, who, in an interview with Charlie Rose, suggested that it was imperative that we invade some Arab country to show that we were serius:<\/p>\n

We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big state right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, “Which part of this sentence don’t you understand?” You don’t think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we’re just gonna to let it grow? Well, Suck. On. This.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n

This places him in exactly the same position as the Rwandan radio broadcasters who were convicted of crimes against humanity, and any misfortune that he suffers for his continuing <\/span> advocacy of an invasion that has cost hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians renders me incapable of feeling the smallest bit of sympathy.<\/p>\n

I guess it makes me a bad person, but I haven’t had a hand in killing nearly a million Iraqis….Scratch that…We all<\/span> had a hand in that as Americans, because it was done in our name<\/span>, but he was cheer leading from his position atop the most respected news paper in the nation.<\/p>\n

Here is the vid of the interview. Look at it, because this is what evil looks like.<\/p>\n

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