Time To Retire General Hood!

H

Howey

Banned
Even the people of Texas find naming military bases after incompetent traitors silly!


When Fort Hood was named, the Army was segregated, and our views about race more ignorant. Now blacks make up about a fifth of the military. The idea that today we ask any of these soldiers to serve at a place named for a defender of a racist slavocracy is deplorable. Can we really expect any of our soldiers to tell Afghans or Iraqis that they are there for their freedom when they have come from a place named for a man who fought to keep people in bondage?
More important, we simply should not name U.S. Army bases after people who fought the U.S. Army in battle. Not Hood, not the incompetent Pickett, not the KKK chieftain Gordon, not the sainted Lee. The gesture honors one man, while it denigrates the struggle and the sacrifice of every U.S. soldier who faced him. It mocks them. It mocks the union they preserved.
There are better choices, soldiers whose service and sacrifice reflect the best of our values, rather than the outdated concerns of our ancestors. During the 20th century, 37 U.S. Army soldiers from Texas won the congressional Medal of Honor. To read the citations of their actions causes one’s chest to swell with pride. Any of them would be a better choice than John Hood.
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Superfreak said:
Obviously we also need to rename everything named after Robert Byrd as well.
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Cool with that as well, but to have a Fort named after a man responsible for the deaths of more American's than Hitler, who took an oath, as a US Army Officer (the same one I did, more or less) to defend the Constitution of the US, who then violated that oath, and committed treason against the US is an insult to ever man who ever fought to defend this nation.
 
Socrtease said:
Cool with that as well, but to have a Fort named after a man responsible for the deaths of more American's than Hitler, who took an oath, as a US Army Officer (the same one I did, more or less) to defend the Constitution of the US, who then violated that oath, and committed treason against the US is an insult to ever man who ever fought to defend this nation.
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I don't disagree with the above in the least. But it is a requirement that every time a liberal bitches about some injustice that Byrd be mentioned. I am pretty sure there is an entire handbook on the topic.
 
Superfreak said:
I don't disagree with the above in the least. But it is a requirement that every time a liberal bitches about some injustice that Byrd be mentioned. I am pretty sure there is an entire handbook on the topic.
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Oh lookie! SF's trying to be funny!

BS. Tell the class why you brought up Byrd.
 
Superfreak said:
I already did Howey... do you need me to dumb it down enough that you will be able to comprehend it???
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And you lied. You tried to make the point that we're talking about southern generals having bases named after them but Byrd was a southern democrat racist at one time. Oh noes!

Superfreak said:
Obviously we also need to rename everything named after Robert Byrd as well.
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Of course, then you realized that was a silly, stupid argument since military bases aren't named after Senators, huh? The War Department issued a memo on 20 Nov 1939 that enacted the policy that “The War Department has enunciated a policy of naming military reservations in honor of deceased distinguished officers regardless of the arm or service in which they have served.”


So, once again, SF, you fail. You weren't trying to make a funny. And then you tried to weasel your way out by saying you were.
 
Howey said:
And you lied. You tried to make the point that we're talking about southern generals having bases named after them but Byrd was a southern democrat racist at one time. Oh noes!
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Were you a jester in a former life? What lie Howey? Please highlight what it is that you think was a lie. I didn't say Byrd was a southern general... but I did say he was a southern racist. So why are you not outraged at everything with his name on it Howey? Why are you just concerned with Generals who have been dead for over a century?

Of course, then you realized that was a silly, stupid argument since military bases aren't named after Senators, huh? The War Department issued a memo on 20 Nov 1939 that enacted the policy that “The War Department has enunciated a policy of naming military reservations in honor of deceased distinguished officers regardless of the arm or service in which they have served.”
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Dearest Howey, you seem so confused. I never said there were military bases named after Senator Byrd. So why do you insist upon creating straw men Howey?


So, once again, SF, you fail. You weren't trying to make a funny. And then you tried to weasel your way out by saying you were.
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Actually Howey, once again you have proven that you have no clue what you are talking about. But you will continue to lie about it anyway... won't you?
 
Superfreak said:
I don't disagree with the above in the least. But it is a requirement that every time a liberal bitches about some injustice that Byrd be mentioned. I am pretty sure there is an entire handbook on the topic.
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Well of course there is.

It's standard Rightie debating tactic that every discussion must begin with a hearty round of "Well you guys do it too!" from Conservatives before they will admit that any Liberal might actually be right about anything.
 
I agree with the Howey and Soc. We should not be naming our bases after foreign generals. Especially foreign generals who committed treason and broke their oaths to the Constitution and US military. We might as well have a Ft. Arnold if we are going to go that route. Perhaps a Ft. Rosenburg, while we're at it.
 
RazorX said:
ROFL

Thats a lot of things to change if we get rid of the liberals favorite KKK Grand Wizard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
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Annnnnnnd here comes RacistX proving my point about SF!

Threedee said:
I agree with the Howey and Soc. We should not be naming our bases after foreign generals. Especially foreign generals who committed treason and broke their oaths to the Constitution and US military. We might as well have a Ft. Arnold if we are going to go that route. Perhaps a Ft. Rosenburg, while we're at it.
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Using their twisted thinking we should have a Ft. STY.
 
Anyway, I think they should just rename the entire shitty state after him, since the retards kept electing him all the way from 1958 to 2006, and would have re-elected him again in 2012 if given the opportunity.
 
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