MTCW Idiot of the week.

Country Boy brings you a new category. Every Monday he will present the MTCW Idiot of the week. Feel free to submit nominations.

This week’s winner goes to Dan Schreiber from Champaign, Illinois. Schreiber writes this absurd comment in a letter to the Editor of the Champaign News Gazette: "Soldiers are certainly entitled to their opinions. But their personal experiences are no substitute for informed analysis. What is needed in soldiers and citizens alike is the ability to differentiate news from propaganda and data from spin."

Now, I have posted the whole letter below so no one can accuse me for taking the contents out of contex. This is from the Monday, July 2, News Gazette:

John Foreman makes a curious argument for a newspaper publisher "that critics of the Iraq war are 'perhaps' naive," because they form their opinions from news instead of from individual soldiers on the ground.

And yet many of the opinions he shares from soldiers are simply Republican talking points. For instance, one soldier believes Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, which is just a way to spin the fact that terrorists followed us in after our invasion.

Another soldier believes Iran is the primary cause of terrorism in Iraq. This is no more true than believing Saddam was responsible for 9/11 or that he was an imminent threat to drop nuclear bombs on the United States, which many soldiers also believed.

Soldiers are certainly entitled to their opinions. But their personal experiences are no substitute for informed analysis. What is needed in soldiers and citizens alike is the ability to differentiate news from propaganda and data from spin.

After all, if naive war critics had been listened to in the first place, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now in.

Informed analysis? Who to make a better informed annalysis than Soldiers who deal with the situation everyday? If what Soldiers are saying end up being republican talking points then what does that say about the democrat party?

I wonder if Mr Schreiber gets his informed analysis about his health from Doctors? or what about legal analysis? probably from a lawyer...wouldn't you think. I mean surely Doctors and lawyers are entitled to their opinions on such matters but their personal expieriences are no substitute for informed analysis by journalist and news media...riiiiight.

Dan Schreiber, you are the MTCW Idiot of the week.

One last note, If politicians and naive war critics would have listened to military leaders in the first place when they asked for more troops and would have let the Soldiers fight the war instead of doing everything to obstruct their efforts, the situation in Iraq would probably be a lot better off now.