Reply #83: my LTTE

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"Support the Troops?"

The mean-spiritedness of the Republican party at its national level reached a shocking new low at their convention in New York recently when delegates were seen to be wearing purple heart band-aids- some right on their chins- on the convention floor.

(an example can be found at as of this writing.)

While out of one side of their mouths claiming slogans such as "support our troops", they are with this disgusting display of contempt openly denigrating all of those who volunteered (as Bush did not) to go to Vietnam, as well as our soldiers currently serving in Iraq.

This is not a new tactic for the Republicans; they also did much of the same to both Max Cleland and John McCain. Their hypocrisy is particularly stunning when one considers how important the Republican Party finds military service to be in a Presidential candidate, the fact that theirs cannot prove he served honorably notwithstanding.

I shouldn't be shocked. I should have expected this from them. However, to do this at all, especially "during a time of war" (to co-opt another of their slogans), when our young men and women are receiving the very same purple hearts as John Kerry did, ought to be beneath them.

I for one am saddened that it is not.