1 So, do you mean to suggest that these suspects are leftists, or are you just dull enough to think that leftists hate anyone in the military and therefore would approve of this sort of violence. Either way, this is a sad post. Could you possibly exploit this ugly situation in a more perverse manner? By the way, I usually have quite a few veterans of the Iraq war in my classes and judging by their private conversations with me I'm pretty confident that most of them would think you're an asshole for this.

2 I came to this blog accidentally (from sayanythingblog), and was about to hit the back button when I found the post RE Seattle. Wow. You sure do know how toss the hyperbole around. Congratulations on your novel ability to make non sequitur associations. I hope that works out for you. Jason

3 I came to this blog accidentally (from sayanythingblog), and was about to hit the back button when I found the post RE Seattle. Wow. You sure do know how toss the hyperbole around. Congratulations on your novel ability to make non sequitur associations. I hope that works out for you. Jason

4 I came to this blog accidentally (from sayanythingblog), and was about to hit the back button when I found the post RE Seattle. Wow. You sure do know how toss the hyperbole around. Congratulations on your novel ability to make non sequitur associations. I hope that works out for you. Jason

5 Too funny! I have a feeling that this is exactly what most members of the general public would say if they stumbled upon this hate filled site. You rule Jason. Way to speak up.

6 Hush, professor, if you say it out loud, they'll stop being hilariously hateful towards everything for up to a week...

7 Dear Allah: Please allow friends of these brave soldiers to find the cowards who did this, and let justice be done. By justice I mean, given a severe ass beating.

8 Can they be veterans if the war is still going on?

9 I wouldn't suggest the left is happy about it either.

10 The reasoning power of the rabid right, in action again! We now return you to your regularly scheduled histrionics.

11 Peter: Of course they'd think that, you being their teacher. Jason: You rule. Way to speak up, not once, but THREE times!

12 P.S. I'm with Filthy. Let's hope these goons (I don't mean Peter and Jason) are identified and and get to trade in their nice baggy clothing for something of the striped variety.

13 Professor, Michelle Malkin knew damn well what she was doing when she posted this story. She reports the news, and her underlings put 2 and 2 together and get 6: of course liberals are happy about this cus we hate the troops.

14 LOL!!! Stupid GI not so strong without his gun is he? Long live the brave revolutionary heroes who crushed the US imperialist mercenaries in their own "home"! LOLOLOLOL!!!

15 These guys were just crinables.

16 I hope they not only catch the no good thugs but they should cut off their arms right at the shoulders there is no call for this they deserve servere punishment

17 Banner of Songun says enough for me. The fact of the matter is that, to this point I haven't seen a leftists even the slightest bit upset about this situation and they certainly won't blog about it. If they supported troops they would blog about things like this and numerous other things that are ethically wrong. Another interesting point is that these thugs were probably told by the victims that the victims were in the Army. I know that is something I would say to hopefully stop potential disaster because the other side of that coin is something no military member wants to get into. If the two soldiers annihilated anyone that attacked them they would be in prison right now if not in civilian prisons then in custody at the nearest fort. Why? Conduct unbecoming. It sucks but it's the truth. Either way the soldiers were screwed that night. Sure, a decent military lawyer could have gotten everything squared away but that night would not have been pleasant for the soldiers, especially in Seattle. But, go ahead and assail my thoughts with your comments and keep using your weapons of mass distraction. I gladly defend your right to do so.

18 Brian, your insinuation of Malkin's motives is no different than Chris's remark. You criticize someone by doing the same thing? You're mother must be proud.

19 Rather "your" mother.

20 "Police Need Your Help In Capturing Beating Suspects..." Hey, that's Snipped Dog and Poof Daddy! /They all look alike to me.

21 Dear Mr. Professional; Because my heart is pure, my posts must be as the posts of three men. Or err... I can come back to the site the next day and find a triple post. Not sure what happened, but I'm *sure* it endears the people around here to my viewpoint... sigh. Jason

22 Dear Mr. Professional; Because my heart is pure, my posts must be as the posts of three men. Or err... I can come back to the site the next day and find a triple post. Not sure what happened, but I'm *sure* it endears the people around here to my viewpoint... sigh. Jason

23 Cindy Sheehan states that she holds no 'animosity' toward the person that killed her son. One could safely presume that she also holds no animosity toward the killers of other mother's sons and daughters in the military as well. Obviously, judging by all the vigils and such, many on the far left support Cindy Sheehan and her views vociferously. So why is it so far fetched to assume that a significant segment of the left would not approve of the beatings of these soldiers? If they think it's forgiveable that a terrorist kill Sheehan's son and the sons and daughters of others, then why is a relatively innocuous non-fatal brutal beating of a couple of soldiers any less forgivable? Reading Kos and other leftist sites, their disdain for members of the military is just barely contained and the hatred boiling just beneath the surface is palpable. And only then because it is so politically incorrect right now to not 'support the troops'. But it won't be long until the far left abandons the pretense of supporting the troops and will behave true to their beliefs just like they did during the Vietnam war and start calling troops baby-killers, spitting on them, etc. The only reason the far left (not all on the left feel this way certainly) is not spitting on members of the military now is only because they don't want to risk alienating the more centrist segements of the left and right - yet. But that is not going to last much longer. Once the glow around Sheehan fades and she is no longer of any use and the spotlight fades, they will - out of frustration - escalate their offensive. And they have nowhere else to go but to direct action against the military-industrial establishment in all it's incarnations. Including the troops.

24 Well at least Jason only repeated himself once this time. Dean, you pose a very good argument.

25 I understand the outrage at this incident, but assigning them special status because of their service to country is wrong. It is this kind of thinking that gives us hate crime and hate speech codes. We can not allow special victim tiers to exist in a free and equal society. The crime itself is the outragous act, their status as veterans is a seperate issue. I would put money on the fact that the thugs had no idea they were veterans.

26 It two soldiers had come home and beat up some filthy hippies you can bet the Lefties would be blogging it.

27 Oyster, why would you rather his mother. What's wrong with yours. (or is that your's)

28 Oyster -- That is my 'top of the head' view of this thing. I wish it were different, but I was an impressionable high school freshman during the Vietnam war and was persuaded by a local peace organization that the president was evil incarnate, and that American soldiers were murderous, blood-thirsty thugs that were slaughtering innocent babies daily. What they said jived with what I saw on the news and read in the paper. It also flew in the face of what my parents believed. And being in the rebellious years of my development, that cemented my feelings. The peace group told me how through protest they would stop the war. So I hopped on the bus one day to go to Berkeley to protest with them. Upon arrival the peaceful protest I'd been promised was nowhere to be seen, rather the radical instigated riot in which I'd been brought to participate was in full ugy swing. I watched and listened in frightend silence as 'protesters' threw rocks and bottles at police, and called them and the American government and military every obscene name in the book. I was stunned, frightened, and incredulous at what these protestors were doing. What they were doing was not protest or exercise of free speech in my mind. They certainly did not speak for me. I then got back on the bus - in more ways than one. After college I joined the military and became a fighter pilot. Fortunately, I never had to fight in any war beyond the cold war. During those times, I observed the far left in its opposition to Reagan and their tarring him as the most evil man in the world, and that he would most certainly start a war with the USSR resulting in global thermonuclear destruction of the world. Having spent a great deal of time right at ground zero in Europe flying NATO support missions, I was well aware of the actual threats posed by the USSR and the ignorance of the left on matters of nuclear matters. What I saw was the far left's hatred of the US being vented again toward the government and military. During the height of that period, I personally felt the hate from the far left when at a wedding party where I was wearing my dress uniform someone asked what I did. I explained and was then pounced upon as a 'tool' of Reagan's plan to dominate the world, and 'how could I?' be a part of such thing if I were a decent human being that did not want to see the world destroyed, and the Russians loved their children too... The pure hatred (and fear) that spewed from those four people was clear and unequivocable. Once they begin to escalate (I think they had a little alcohol fueling their taste for a fight) one of them threatened to get physical. Though honestly part of me wanted to rip the guy's head off, the other 99% of me told him that if the need arose I would put my life on the line without hesitation for him and his friends - as well as everyone else in America. I then thanked him for revalidating what I knew to be a strength of American government: Tolerating the intolerable. Whereas, I told him, if he were in the USSR and said the things to a Soviet officer about the USSR that he'd said to me, he and friends - and possibly members of his family - would be on their way to a Gulag where they would probably die of other than natural causes. So, as my wife (who is Iraqi) says, my perspective on the far left is reality based.

29 Chris---you're a complete idiot. Thanks

30 Too bad they were not carrying their weapons there would be four thugs pushing up daisies by now

31 Violence by a protected class on white males is no big deal in Seattle. TodayÂ’s Seattle Times had a one row, two-inch column on page 3 about this story. Now if a fruitcake and his SIG other were given broken jaws in Pioneer Square you would have thought the goddamn Japanese attacked the US again.

32 banner of songun is a fucking pussy

33 Perfect example of how niggers are taking over this country.

34 concerned: Yikes. Blame the evil mentality, not the race.

35 Since their blacks and if their cuaght will jessie jackasson step in and urge we understand them or what? we should drop them right into the middle of iraq armed with nothing at all and see how brave they are here hoping some insurgents beat the snot out of them

36 Another attack on whites by blacks. And some assholes continue to talk about the KKK. This happens on a daily basis in every American city. Of course saying so makes me a racist. If you sissies would get behind the KKK and other groups who defend white people we would not be having these problems. Wouldn't have any problems with muslims either. But no, just sit and be victims in the name of racial equality. Racial equality my ass. I think someone is going to strike back in rememberence of this act against white people.

37 Von Nostril: You sound as if you wish to diddle Jason. You piece of shit.

38 this is the violence that happens everyday in every state and town. yes it is a shame that they are solders, but how do you know they didnt prevoke the attack by some rude comment or gesture... or vise versa... regardsless of who you are; white,black,solder or thug , nobody deserves to be beaten the way they were. i feel sorry for them all personally.

39 I have to say that as a person who has been in the Army AND in Jail,my experience is that these urban homeboy coon motherf'ckers have no respect for anyone and make there living by stepping on honest peoples toes. Puerto Ricans are no better where I'm from. They should all go back to where there families came from.