Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
'Supporting the troops' means just that. Supporting the f$cking troops. I joined after 9/11, being well informed about the choice I made. I'm still serving and although yellow ribbon magnets make me sick with their misplaced, self-righteous, I'll-just-sit-on-my-ass-while-others-do-the-dirty-work, smarminess, it doesn't help when you have high up senators from the Democrats comparing servicemen with Nazi and Communist torturers and jailers.

Quit pretending it's the right that has scapegoated the left as cowardly, anti-military types. The left has done a fine job of distancing themselves from the military and leaving this one wide open for right wing politicians for the last 20 years or so, through their constant disparaging and maligning of the military in anyway they can for more vote pandering.

Yeah, its funny, isn't it, two-party politics? How I'm a piece of sh*t because I share a party affiliation or some fringe ideas with someone I never voted for or whos district I never lived in or someone who gets busted in an integrity snafu, or you're a piece of sh*t because you share a party or some fringe ideas with someone who you never voted for or whos district you never lived or someone who gets busted in an integrity snafu

Be that as it may, you being a soldier it must make you terribly angry to be compared to a Nazi because of the actions of a few. Just as it makes me terribly angry to be told that criticizing the actions of my government makes me anti-american or a coward or anti-soldier. We are terrible, terrible people. Want to go boar hunting this weekend?