Author Topic: Rosie O’Donnell equates U.S. troops to terrorists (Read 7007 times)

Shug · « **on:** May 19, 2007, 04:59:26 PM »

Check out the MSNBC Video
Never much cared for O'Donnell but this goes way to far.
What an idiot.
I'm ex-military and this really bothers me.
I know I won't be clicking over to ABC any time soon unless she gets fired and there's an apology.

marktobias · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2007, 05:18:18 PM »

She needs shooting.

nop · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2007, 05:25:07 PM »

Terrible women. She should not blame troops. Troops put their lifes on the line , and she is what, comedian. Seriously, US cannot give up Middle East (or elsewhere) unless it can give up oil. Same thing, China must stay in Darfur to get oil. This must be Dinosaur curses on their graves.

Tuffty · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2007, 06:34:34 PM »

That's just below the belt. You blame policy or the government but never the troops. Don't know Rosie so well, but after this and the whole spat between her and Donald Trump, I have a fair idea of what she's like.

JFC · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2007, 07:36:22 PM »

Quote from: Tuffty on May 19, 2007, 06:34:34 PM

That's just below the belt. You blame policy or the government but never the troops.

Indeed. It's fine to have an opinion and all and if she's against the war itself that's her perogative. But to go this far? That's just uncalled for.

RatBastich · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2007, 07:57:59 PM »

Another example of Rosie O'Donnell's continuing stupidity.
She obviously likes "sole" food, since she constantly puts her foot in her fat mouth.
ABC should fire her immediately, regardless of the fact that her contract is done at the end of June.

chera · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2007, 08:04:46 PM »

(sigh)

At first I thought she was just a dumb bigot.

Now I realize that she's just dumb.

JFC · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2007, 08:13:35 PM »

^ Well, I'd say she's still a bigot too.

RatBastich · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2007, 08:21:45 PM »

^Agreed.

Arcadia Victis · « **Reply #9 on:** May 20, 2007, 03:59:21 AM »

If ignorance is bliss, I guess Rosie must be the happiest woman on earth.

Never mind that U.S. soldiers by definition can't be terrorists, since they wear uniforms and belong to the armed forces of a recognized nation-state...

Angelus · « **Reply #10 on:** May 20, 2007, 04:05:30 AM »

Ah... yeah. Wow. Troops are just told what to do most of the time, it's not like they're to blame for their higher-ups' decisions. Regardless, I don't agree with Rosie on this one... well, I never have, but still.

stoneden · « **Reply #11 on:** May 20, 2007, 06:53:54 AM »

This thread should add Rose Bashing to the thread name.

Never liked her. She showed her true self to me when she verbally assaulted Tom Selleck about being a member of the NRA.

sugar · « **Reply #12 on:** May 20, 2007, 07:39:08 AM »

Speaking as an outsider. (Australia) I would say she's not wrong. But she didn't have to say it. There is no point of the troops being there at all. And attacking and killing and raping random civillians is not doing any good.

Come on guys. Put your patriotism aside for a second and just wish and hope the troops come home soon. But there is no point for bashing really.

*hides*

fr0z · « **Reply #13 on:** May 20, 2007, 07:58:57 AM »

^I agree, and we should look at this from an Iraqi point of view. After a living in a rather stable (but, of course oppresive one: to reverse this was the reason America chose to invade.... wasn't it?), an extremist militant is one who is scared shitless that his country is suddenly being invaded by tanks and misguided missiles and soldiers with large guns. In my opinion, they have prolonged their stay. I can't understand the ideals of anyone pro-war.

BX_LeMans · « **Reply #14 on:** May 20, 2007, 04:35:06 PM »

The troops only follows orders, the problem is the government.

Or is it right to bomb other countrys and kill civilists, there are other ways to handle things.
Its no wonder, islamic states hate americans.

Oh my god, I'm a terrorist, I said something against the U.S.

One questions for critics : Why the hell has the U.S.Army enough material and weapons in Germany to take over the country in a few weeks???

Near Frankfurt is a Air base with completly armed helicopters on three or four platforms under the earth. They only have to tank them to destroy us. A friend works for Public utilities Erlensee, he was called there to fix a leak on one of the platforms. While he and his collegues were in there, EIGHT! soldiers with weapons escorted them. He was feard to get shot, if he would look the wrong direction. The next call he refused to get in there again.

Asmodai · « **Reply #15 on:** May 20, 2007, 10:00:39 PM »

Quote from: BX_LeMans on May 20, 2007, 04:35:06 PM

One questions for critics : Why the hell has the U.S.Army enough material and weapons in Germany to take over the country in a few weeks???

Because if they weren't there, Germany would have become a part of Russia in, oh, about 1950 or so?

Now they're there because it's a convenient central location to route stuff to the Middle East and because many Germans in the community want them to stay because they provide such an enormous economic boost to the region.

Marks Spencer · « **Reply #16 on:** May 21, 2007, 12:44:27 PM »

Wow...who would've thought? Rosie O'Donnell, the Jane Fonda of this generation!

BX_LeMans · « **Reply #17 on:** May 21, 2007, 05:07:38 PM »

Econimic boost? Americans are under themselves only. They have own schools, shopping centres, bowling, disco, bars and what else in the bases. They don't buy in german stores. They only drive around playing big.

When I was at friends, a big Jeep with american licence tried to push me off the street, because I drove 120km/h instead the allowed 100. I was too slow for that asshole. At a parking lot he(in uniform) screamed really bad things. It was good, we were four in my car(have tinted window, so he couldn't see). The guy was fast back in his car, when my friends got out of my car.

There is no reason for them to stay in other countries, playing big boss and world leader.

I don't like the way, americans act in the world, as if they can do everything and all the others has to follow their will. And if someone critizizes, they bomb them out or call them terrorists friends.

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #18 on:** May 21, 2007, 08:24:33 PM »

It's the US government's way of being imperialist without actually being an "empire"

I'm guessing the heavy guards that your friend experienced was because there is highly classified information on that base.

About Rosie O'donnell, I don't like her, but I wouldn't go as far as call her an idiot and from what I can tell she is not. She just has very strong opinions. There are incidents where US troops have in a way "terrorized" Iraqis, but I also wouldn't go as far as equating them to terrorists. It would be fair for her to make some valid comparisons though. Firing her because she says something like that goes against freedom of speech and press, she has much of a right to say what she did, as much as you do by calling her an idiot.

Asmodai · « **Reply #19 on:** May 21, 2007, 08:33:50 PM »

"Firing her because she says something like that goes against freedom of speech and press"

What's wrong with firing her?

If you keep her from being fired you're infringing on the network's right to free speech to control what gets said on their network. The network can make any decision it wants in that regard. It would be a far greater violation of freedom of speech and the press to force the network to employ someone they don't want to.