I disagree with Rachel tonite on the issue of a ticker parade for Iraq Vets

[Leopolds Ghost]

107. At least in Afghanistan we had a reason for being there. Iraq is an illegal war.

That reason proved to be based on misinformation about the whereabouts of our enemy for the most part, but it was based on some sort of sound foreign policy, since the enemy was actually there.

Any parade will not be about honoring Vets for their service in Iraq or salving anyone's wounded conscience, it'll be about celebrating the end of the war and thanking our vets for "winning" it.

As for hating on vets, I think it's sad people can't see any middle ground between hating on people who are brought up to believe and told by all of their society (including Dems) that it's a productive and honorable living to go out and kill foreigners for the sake of vague foreign policy objectives (although really most combat soldiers do it initially for the thrill of combat and later for group solidarity against a deadly enemy, i.e. the documented psychological phenomenon of combat altruism) vs. celebrating illegal wars in order to reassure vets that if we enter into another illegal war we'll still support the vets when they come home (which we patently do not.)