Monday, October 15, 2007

Supporting the troops

Digby:

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The keyboard commandos are in grave danger of jumping the patriotic shark at this point. As much as these movie addled children love the glory they think other people dying confers upon them, the horror of war is actually very real. And the reality affects those who fight it directly, not those who sit in judgment between trips to the mall. Many men and women who have been involved in this thing, regardless of their politics, are injured in body, mind and spirit. But these cheerleaders on the right apparently aren't willing to put up with any veteran who doesn't hide all feelings of ambiguity, pain or disagreement. They are already calling them "phony", mentally unstable or malingerers in the right wing noise machine. It's not likely to get any better.

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Because ... you know:

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The liberal mindset is what causes PTSD. Boys being raised to men without a strong male role model, and having a false sense of what life is about is causing our young men to go to war and come home freaked out.

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Even conceding the above statement is true (it's not), it tells me that not enough tough, strong, able-bodied, conservative men are signing up to "defend our freedoms" in Iraq. If more conservatives would join the military, we wouldn't have to worry about paying for the medical expenses to straighten out the minds of all them 'liberal crybabies' who, you know, have actually had to face and kill the enemy.

Why do I get the feeling these big talkers would be the first to crap their pants and end up under a bed, sucking their thumbs and drooling as soon as the shooting started?

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