Cal Thomas says Iraq is the most dangerous and important war America has

[young_at_heart]

EVER fought. In a recent column he rakes the generals over the coals for daring to speak out. "They are encouraging the enemy and no good will come from the comments of these former leaders".....(implies they are traitors). Also he says, "As President Bush has repeatedly stated, if we don't defeat them over there, they will come after us over here."

I have heard that Cal Thomas's column is in more newspapers than any other political commentator so when I read stuff like this I can't easily dismiss him (much as I'd like to).

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Cal Thomas

A talking head covered with Shinola.

Ignore him.

You'll be surprised at how easy it will be.

[acmavm]

2. His column may be covered in scads and oodles of newspapers, but

that doesn't mean the brain dead lying moran MF'er knows what he's talking about. He's nothing more than a scab on the knee of this planet. Lying idiot bastard.

[NewJeffCT]

3. wow, Cal is still around?

I remember him in the NY Daily News way back in the 80s. His pic looked old then.

He was way right back then... but, it seems he's become a typical Republican these days.

[patdem]

4. I suppose he would not mind speaking German, goose stepping

and gassing jews? Just askin?

[tabasco]

5. Needless to say. Cal Thomas military service = zero.

Just another cowardly chickenhawk who loves to watch war on teevee.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. And I say, Bulls**t. His opinion is no more valid. There was a small

number of radical 'terrorists' that did and would like to strike on American soil. With the help of Chimpy, that number has been raised by a thousand-fold. However, if even a small percentage of the money we're wasting in Iraq had been used to fortify our ports, guard on energy plants, and put into surveiling that core group, we might have been a whole lot safer. Bush is after an expanding empire and control of the ME, so as to corner the market on oil and cut China off at the knees.

[Catrina]

7. He's still telling the lie that 'they' were in Iraq. This is getting

really old, and I doubt too many will fall for it anymore ~ no one I know is even open to hearing these old lies now. Even those in my family who made the mistake of voting twice for this administration. And when they wake up, they are even more angry than those of us who have known they were lying all along. Let him spout the lies. The system is beginning to work at last, and one by one the lies are being uncovered.

Few Americans will take the word of six, maybe more, (Shinseki and Clark are two others) Generals lightly, and his attempt to paint them as traitors is as despicable as all the other smear campaigns launced against anyone who speaks the truth. It's their MO. Even Fox viewers aren't buying the lies anymore.

It's reaching critical mass, the mountain of people coming forward, from the Military, the CIA, the FBI and speaking out, is making it more and more difficult to counter. To use a Cheneyism 'they're in the last throes' and Cal Thomas only serves to remind us of of their vile tactics of smearing and lying about anyone who dared to disagree with them.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Keep grinding out the propaganda Cal.

You lost whatever shred of credibility you might have had, a looooong time ago.

[Kagemusha]

9. Y'know, this is like, admitting they're fighting us over there because...

it's easier to kill us over there.

That's why they're not working hard to kill us here. It might make us do something disadvantageous to the enemy like leaving Iraq, where they can kill us over there so they don't HAVE to kill us over here.

I'd love to see someone attempt to refute my argument.

[tularetom]

10. Aw shit Paul Harvey is on more radio stations

than anybody else and I don't have any trouble ignoring him. You can do it. Forget Cal he's a tightassed creep.

[young_at_heart]

11. I do my best to ignore him......really!

It's just that he appears at least once a week in our paper and yesterday's column was by far the biggest one on the opinion page, so I worry that people will read this drivel and believe him. Fortunately, the paper does print Molly Ivins occasionally.

[jwirr]

12. If this Cal Thomas is the same one I read in the 70s then

he is also one of the biggest idiots around.

[young_at_heart]

15. The one and only.....I just read that his column is in 540 newspapers

I guess a lot of editors think highly of him....hard to figure!

[pretzel4gore]

13. Blinded By the Might...

that was name of a book thomass wrote, a few years ago, a warning against the 'unwarranted' accretion of power and priviledge by the rightwing, especially the christian, in US politics, based upon the observation that "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely"...looks like the old user been taking some mind altering drugs lately- maybe the overthrow of the clinton democracy has something to do with the old reprobate junkie's mood swing(?)

[bemildred]

14. Cal Thomas is a treasonous swine.

Spineless, lickspittle(*) traitors like him should be tried and locked away.

(* With thanks to G. Galloway for reviving a good insult.)

[Lars39]

16. Found this little tidbit on him:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:cshGpGoMZagJ:www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas021804.asp/+Cal+Thomas+military+service&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4&client=firefox-a

In 1965, I enlisted in the Army in order to avoid the draft because I was told
the chances of getting a good assignment (non-combat) were greater for enlistees than for draftees.

I pulled some strings and was assigned to Armed Forces Radio and Television in New York
where I fought Commies at Broadway and West 57th Street.
When the bureau closed and moved to Washington, lower ranking enlisted men like me
were to be shipped to Vietnam, not to serve in combat roles but to broadcast to troops from Saigon,
which I was already doing from New York.

I was married with kids by then and had served about half the time I had promised the Army when I signed up.
I requested and received an early and honorable discharge.

[Clyde39]

17. "fought commies"?

He is disgusting. How dare he criticize the generals. I can't understand why newspapers keep him.

[gizmo1979]

18. He's grasping at straws

just think what a sucky job he has right now.It's all pure fiction hope he has the correct college background for his new writing style.

[TomPaine77]

19. Cal Thomas' Logic (?)

We heard this same scheiss during the Vietnam War: "If we don't beat them in the Mekong Delta, we'll have to fight them in San Diego and San Francisco". No AK-wielding bo doi were ever spotted paddling ashore at La Jolla Beach after Saigon fell in 1975.

Vietnam or Iraq, do people like Thomas EVER fight? Or do they always find "different priorities"? And can anyone really think that trying to separate warring factions in Iraq is more important than beating the Confederacy and reuniting the country in the Civil War, overthrowing European autocracy in WW I, or defeating the Axis in WW II?