The Thomas Friedman "Suck.On.This." video

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/19/thomas-friedman-and-iraq-suck-on-this/



Thomas Friedman and Iraq: Suck on This!: UPDATED with Video
By: John Amato on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 10:20 AM - PST

C&Ler Jonathan D emailed and told me that the Thomas Friedman “Suck on This” Iraq clip has been removed from Youtube. UPDATE: billw sent me the video!

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I guest hosted Richard Greene’s show on Air America a little while ago and talked about Friedman:

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Friedman: 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. That Charlie is what this war is about. We could of hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. Could of hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.

UPDATE: I saw this on Atrios when he first posted it way back when and he has a Sam Seder version up now…

Duncan has more: “Now he tells us“

What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.

near the top of my list to punch in the stomach if i were to catch him alone on the street.

just one humiliating punch.

right in the solar plexus. one that will leave him on his knees, wondering if he'll every draw another breath.

a little retching up of his last meal would be a bonus.

you would hit it?

Classic bully tactics, sending the underlings to deliver a message he's too chicken to give in person. But it comports with a disturbing segment of the commentariat, which seems to think that the U.S. needs to kick the living shit out of some small country every now and then, just to keep the rest of them in line. And of course, it's someone else doing the kicking while they gleefully rub their little trotters and enjoy the spectacle.