Ray, you have posted here before and I welcome you to post here again
Thanks, I was pretty amused when the closet Bushie decided I shouldn't play on the "moderate thread" any longer. :)
How someone can pretend he is a moderate and at the same time support the radical restructuring of America that Bush is engineering is beyond my pay grade.
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Re: So I am sure that you and all of us will remain very respectful of our troops.
I really wish people would stop couching the argument in these terms. It isn't intellectual honest nor particularly descriptive of the reality on the ground.
In the military we have several factions. The ones that I feel sympathy for are the grunts who got caught up in Operation Sitting Duck through no fault of their own. Just like the Iraqis, they are the victims of Bush's failed policy and Rumsfeld's astonishing arrogance.
Then you have a second class of men at the tip of the spear. These are the sadists and the murder-for-hire crowd. They are a despicable breed of men who are not in the military to defend the principles of the U.S. legal system and our borders. They are in the military because they are mean son of a bitches who get their rocks off killing sand niggers and ragheads and anyone who doesn't look like the tow-headed Caucasian stock they are part of. These men deserve no respect.
Among the officer class, you have the decent sort who actually did take on the career because of a sincere interest in patriotism and a sense of duty. These men are professionals and worthy of respect.
But also among the officer class, you have the connivers, the right wing imperialists who see the military as the way to loot the planet and satisfy their greed. Again, this sort deserves no respect.
So, when I hear people make a plea that we need to "support the troops", all I can think of is the wisdom of Hitler's propaganda minister who said: "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
The very best way to support the troops is to get them the hell out of Iraq. Now!
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And I would hope that tsigprofit would reconsider the decision of banning you from this thread. A dastardly act that cutails the rights of people to speak out, IMO.
BRAVO! BELLISIMO! QUE BELLA! Thanks. I really appreciate the use of the word "dastardly". <g> tsigprofit is full of himself. He reminds me of a little Napolean who sees the thread as his "fiefdom" that he's going to run to his own whimsical standards. He also reminds me of "Dudley DooRight", a doofus of a Canadian Mountie in the Bullwinkle cartoons that have been around since the 1950s.
Gosh, I hope he doesn't read this thread. He'll bear a grudge against me forever if he does. He's just that sort of thin-skinned, shallow intellect Republican who respects loyalty above the truth or a good intellectual challenge.
BTW, I sense from the resounding flop your post was at soliciting responses that I don't have a particularly large fan club at the "Moderate Forum". Oh well, c'est la guerre, n'est pas?
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