Time Magazine Cover Sparks Outrage from Iwo Jima Vets

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By Jeff Poor | April 18, 2008 - 13:22 ET

The powers at Time magazine, who now approach reporting the issue of climate change with a holier than thou persona, as blogged yesterday by NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein, have ruffled the feathers of a few Iwo Jima veterans.

The Time cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green "the new red, white and blue." But Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, said this goes a little too far. He told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using the famous Iwo Jima flag-planting photograph for the global warming 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."

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Mates 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."

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."

Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and attempted to justify it by saying 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, 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."

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I'd like to see some of

I'd like to see some of those old Iwo Jima Marines kick Stengal's sorry, narrow ass. I guarantee they still have it in them.

God Bless our Vets. Screw Global Warming.

D-rats : Sublimated Communists

"God Bless our Vets. Screw Global Warming."

Those 2 concepts are reversed with liberals and Democrats.

"I am a member of no organized political party ... I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers

Democrats and

Democrats and Commies...

The Dems are being duped into doing the dirty work of the Communists.

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Communist Goals for American Takeover


 
Communist Goals (1963)
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.


2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one, or both, of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture -- education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etcetera.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit, and eventually dismantle, the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
    

"Abstain from McCain"

The casual, coarse, thoughtless,

asinine, vulgarity of Time magazine is astonishing.

They didn't do this out of meanness, they did it because it was easy, cheap, and might only offend a segment of the population they despise anyway.

The decision to do this must have taken all of 3 seconds, and some liberal sphincter sat and smiled at his "cleverness".

 

Concur Heldmyw, as I posted

Concur Heldmyw, as I posted yesterday.  Imagine if someone used that sacred relic of liberalism, the Aids Quilt as prop to make a point no related to its position in history.   Imagine if we used the Aids Quilt in conjunction with:

  • Tax cuts.
  • Increased Defense Spending
  • Legitimate detention of terrorists
  • Mining rights in the west
  • The need for increased oil exploration in ANWR

The liberal left and staf of Time would have FREAKED!!!!

The Time editors would never do such a thing, but since they hold the military in contempt - it is easy to use the sacred icon of the Iwo Jima Memorial to make a totally seperate point.

Were they right then or are they right now???

Is this the same Time magazine that predicted a coming ice age that would doom us all but we could prevent it by melting the ice caps with nuclear bombs??

Duh.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

‘Look, we need a national

‘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."

Stangel is a leftist nutcase with an agenda.....

The great man who summed it all up perfectly for me is Donald Mates....

"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."

 "Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Alnalogy

Interchanging Algore sitting at the defense table in the Nuremberg trials would capture the current situation better.

Stop

How many of you subscribe to Time? Stop!

Globalwarmingtologists : MAN, They Suck

Global warming ... tell that crap to my thermometer - I have yet to see it hit 70 (and May is almost here).

T.F.

Nashville, TN

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard." - Edmund Burke

Pyst!!!

First let me inform you all that I'm a cousin of Sgt Michael Strank, his grandmother and my great-grandmother were sisters.  My dad grew up with and went to war with Mike - My Dad came back.  Mike died on Iwo Jima.  For Time magazine to use his image to support their unscientific view of global warming is a travesty.  If they would do their research they would know that the earth has been cooling since 1998 and thousands of climatologists (of which algore is NOT one) have been saying that 1. CO2 is not the cause of global temperature increases and 2. MAN CANNOT be responsible for something that is NOT happening.

I don't subscribe to "Slime" but...

While I have never subscribed to a magazine as liberal and as anti-American as "Time",  they continue to send this snot-rag to my office, free of charge, for years now.

I sent a letter to their subscription dept (several times in fact) and asked them to please stop sending "Time" to my office because it offends my political, personal, and common-sense views!  Did they abide by my request?  Of course not;  the libs at "Slime" know what's best for me.

So when it arrives, as it did yesterday, it promply gets trashed to eventually rot in a landfill.  They can kiss my butt-olla.

BTW, today is "Earth Day"!  I'm so thrilled.  We should all collect our copies of "Time" and build a big bonfire. This will leave a big carbon footprint the size of semi. CO2 will skyrocket; Algore will have a hissy-fit.

 

Rarely am I at a loss for words

But this Time cover truly did it to me...as did this idiot's glee with his "historic" cover....Time rag always has a red border, doncha know?  I saw this the other day.

And have still not figured how the media could possibly sink any lower.

Reprehensible, disgusting, insulting, idiotic, insane...doesn't even begin to cover my reaction to this.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive