On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:07:22 -0700 (PDT), traveler <Vallecito@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover
>Time editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the
>lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change.'
>
> By Jeff Poor
>Business & Media Institute
>4/18/2008 9:40:43 AM
>
>For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the
>traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push
>more global warming alarmism.
>
>The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima
>photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag
>and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh
>calls green “the new red, white and blue.”
>
>(a typical Generation X whippersnapper who doesn't know his ass from a
>hole in the ground)
>
> Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media
>Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a
>“disgrace.”
>
>“It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to
>hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was
>an Iwo Jima survivor.”
>
> Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global
>warming was erroneous and disrespectful.
>
>“The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big
>discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t.
>And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just
>sacrilegious.”
>
>According to the American Veterans Center (AVC), Mates served in the
>3rd Marine Division and fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, landing on
>Feb. 24, 1945.
>
> “A few days later, Mates’ eight-man patrol came under heavy assault
>from Japanese forces,” Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the AVC, said.
>“During fierce-hand-to-hand combat, Mates watched as his friend and
>fellow Marine, Jimmy Trimble, was killed in front of his eyes. Mates
>was severely wounded, and underwent repeated operations for shrapnel
>removal for over 30 years.”
>
> Lt. John Keith Wells, the leader of the platoon that raised the flags
>on Mt. Suribachi and co-author of “Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid to
>Die: Iwo Jima” wasn’t impressed with Time’s efforts.
>
>“That global warming is the biggest joke I’ve ever known,” Wells told
>the Business & Media Institute. “[W]e’ll stick a dadgum tree up
>somebody’s rear if they want that and think that’s going to cure
>something.”
>
>(Love of Nature is one thing. Ignorance of WWII is quite another.
>Belief in "global warming" takes a ****ing idiot.)
>
>Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and
>said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate
>change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to
>World War II.
>
> “[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be
>an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat
>global warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that
>this is an issue that is very popular with the voters,
>
>(You mean popular with the stupid little morons who buy into that
>horse****?)
>
>makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle
>it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and
>international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy
>involves that.’ I don't understand why they don’t do that.”
>
>
>(He doesn't understand why they don't do that. Several of them are,
>and they can take that bundle of bull and stick it where the sun don't
>****ne, you ****ing little asshole.)
>
>Holbert, speaking on behalf of the American Veterans Center, said the
>editorial decision by Time to use the photograph for the cover
>trivialized the cause the veterans fought for.
>
> “Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United
>States,” Holbert said. “The Japanese Empire in February of 1945,
>however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most
>recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history.
>War analogies should be used sparingly by political advocates of all
>bents.”
>
>Stengel also appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on April 17 and had no
>difficulty admitting the magazine needed to have a “point of view.”
>
> “I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that
>one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have
>a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just
>say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to
>make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know
>what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so.”
>
>(This ****ing little clown is "an expert" when it comes to the
>environment? Hah! What scientific credentials does he posses that
>allow him to judge the scientific merits of the "global warming and
>climate change" hyperbole?)
>
>Time has been banging the global warming drum for some time now. In
>April 2007, Time offered 51 ways to “save the planet,” which included
>more taxes and regulation.
>
>(What Time ought to do is to FIRE that stupid editor. What a dunce!)
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Indeed
Regards
Starkiller
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