Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover


http://www.businessandmedia.org/arti...417171532.aspx

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.”

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Why are war heroes always such retards?

For those who haven't seen it, Time Magazine's cover features a doctored photograph - the famous Iwo Jima photo of the Marines raising the American flag. The headline is "How to Win the War on Global Warming," and in to doctored photo, ther marines are raising a tree to be planted.

Iwo Jima veterans were none too pleased.

You can fine the whole article here:
http://www.businessandmedia.org/arti...417171532.aspx

I just dont understand why they would be angry?

It a very big and important issue so its not trivializing the sacrafice they made that day.

Without winning the inviromental "war" this country will be in very big trouble.

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Please cite proof of that.

And no...Using the picture on time magazine IS NOT proof that they are retards. Would YOU like YOUR picture being used for someone elses political bullshit that YOU didnt agree with?

No you wouldnt!

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ya know. I agree i think it was in bad taste.

quacks like a duck

I feel like this photo could somehow be used to promote an end to illegal immigration.

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/br...s/eliansma.gif

Of course, somethings tells me that would be distasteful though.

now there's a good use of govt resources

It figures you couldnt provide proof.



Just because you are a chicken shit, pussy , mother fucker, can't hold a job down asshole, DONT EVER knock a persons service to their country.

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Yeah, okay - since you know me so well.

Just because you are a chicken shit, pussy , mother fucker, can't hold a job down asshole, DONT EVER knock a persons service to their country.

way to prove me wrong, apeman.

This old geezers are the last of a dying breed of real heroes and people who truly have strength and fortitude. Their sacrifice needs to be respected. Time screwed up when they did that.

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Well, it's kind of like that animosity that blacks feel against whites because of the past of this country. The same type of emotion is there with Veterans when they see adolph hitler figurines or nazi flags. I think they're angry because someone has taken a photo of something significant and emotional for these Veterans, and turned it into something that it's not.

It would be like a photo-shopped picture of the WTC collapsing, but instead of seeing debri coming off of them, you'd see flower pedals, and the issue would be about environmental collapse because of humans. It's just too close of a topic for alot of people, something we won't understand because we were not on Iwo Jima. Maybe they feel like by using it to portray something else, it's taking away from the sacrifices those guys made. If I'm not mistaken, I think the majority of the guys in the picture were killed not long after in the fighting.

It's a very political issue, and I can understand the veterans not wanting an image of the heroics to be manipulated for promoting a political cause.

While greenhouse gas theory is settled science, the impact of increasing CO2 concentrations from 280 ppm to 380 ppm n an incredibly chaotic climate system is not. But that's a topic for another thread.

I can completely understand not wanting to be the poster child for an alarmist movement, against a "problem" that will probably end in a catastrophe similar to the "Y2K" bug armageddon.