Reply #111: I long resisted using the word "traitor", but now that the Constitution is shredded...

[arendt]

I feel it is the only word left to describe the people we elected in 2006 to impeach these
bastards and stop this war. They are half way to letting Bush get away with the most
egregious set of crimes ever committed against the Constitution.

After two exchanges, I have the feeling that you are cocooned in a cloud of rhetoric
that I will never penetrate. But, I will try one more time:

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Nice to hear that the only way to "be loyal to the mission" is to send more kids over to
get killed. I just do not understand that mindset.

I have listened to six years of constantly shifting reasons for this debacle. First, we were
lied to (WMDs, supporting terrorists - your boogeyman Al Qaida) and pressured to start
the war. Now the troops are being used as hostages to keep the war going, which you
whole-heartedly support.

Pray tell, other than enriching the mercenaries and the oil companies, what is this so-called
mission we are being loyal to? Ask the grunts on the ground. They don't know either. They
asked Holy Joe Lieberman, charter member of the DLC and outright traitor to the Democratic
Party, "so when do we get to go home?".

"be loyal to the mission" is meaningless babble, just like "war on terror". Again, this in
no way denigrates the sacrifice of the people who went there. In fact, they deserve better
than these thought-stoppiing slogans. They deserve the truth. Why were they sent there?
Why have they been given sub-standard armor? Why has the VA been cut? Why are their
tours being extended and extended and extended again?

Why do you not want to talk about those issues in this shitty war?

Since you brought up the subject of your service, and since your handle includes USN, may
I ask exactly where your active service was performed? e.g., on the ground in Iraq.

arendt