Friday, February 20, 2004

A Mawkish "Tribute" (2)

If you come home missing a few limbs - like Max Cleland did from Vietnam - don't expect any Republicans to "honor your service" if you run for office as a Democrat, like Cleland did. Instead, expect to have a draft-dodger Republican opponent trash your patriotism and run ads displaying your face alongside Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

And expect psychofool Mad Annie Coulter, the Freeper fantasy girl, to trash you as a phony in her column. (Joe Conason has given her some well-deserved atttention for that here and here.)

And if you're in the National Guard and serving in Iraq, you can thank your President for extending your duty and giving you the chance to come home without some limbs or in one of those unphotographed coffin arrivals. The same President who got his daddy's connections to jump him to the head of the list to get into the Guard when it meant he wouldn't have to go to one of those wars, who just decided to skip a year or more of his Guard duty, who up and missed his flight physical and lost his pilot's lcense after the Guard spent $1 million training him, and "worked it out" with the brass to leave eight months early.

Some of today's Guard who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan to lost jobs, failed businesses and broken marriages would have liked to have been able to "work something out" to get out early like Sheriff Bush did.

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