You gotta read this

From Kevin at Lean Left:

Is this what Republicans are going on about when they talk about "heartland values"?:

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Joe Darby is a hero. He saw evil -- and yes, it was evil --being done and tried to stop it. If the United States is ever to be able to be seen as anything other than a sadistic colonizer in the Middle East, it will be because Joe Darby allowed the process to begin. He did so by acting with decency and courage in a place where authority and custom were running against him.

Instead of being treated as a hero, however, his life is in danger along with that of his wife. His neighbors hold vigils for the bastards who tortured people and talk casually about the harm Darby deserves. Rush Limbaugh excused the torturers and Senator Inhofe was outraged at the revelations and the outrage over those revelations. And what of Bush? Where has his vaunted character been? Darby is a genuine American hero -- and yet Bush is allowing his fellow travelers, his base, to treat Darby like this without saying a word. Bush talks a lot about honor and dignity and strength and doing the right thing --but his military has kept Darby under wraps, and I could find no mention of Bush bringing up Darby's name on the stump or of chastising the people who excuse the torturers or demonize Darby. A man of actual character, a man with real values, would not sit silently when a good person, a man who out his nation above himself, was attacked.

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Go read the whole thing here. Chaps my ass.