In that same vein, just because an able-bodied red-blooded American wants to fight for his country, he’s really just brainwashed and too stupid to know he’s being used by “chickenhawks.” (Funny term, ain’t it? I guess that, since I’m not a mechanic, I shouldn’t have any opinion on how my car gets fixed, either.)

I have the feeling that yellow-bellied mentality has been around for a lot longer than the USA, and I suspect it won’t be going anywhere too soon. We will always have these pansies who absolutely WOULDN’T take a fight to somebody else, no matter if they were going to burn their house down. Because violence never solved anything, right lib’s?

It’s always easier to sit around and nay-say. The real men get up and do what they need to do.

I saw a Korean War vet yesterday. My wife said I looked like I was going to cry. I was honored to be in such a man’s presence, but I’d spit on Hussein’s shoes if he came near me.

I had used that Patton quote at the beginning of the Memorial Video I made for last weekend:

If someone is going to read the names of our fallen troops, then do it with the respect that those heroes deserve.

I will give Blast the benefit of the doubt and assume that he or she is of at least average intelligence. That leaves me only with the conclusion that Blast is simply not sincere. A pretense of incomprehension is a childish and dishonest rhetorical tool.

The original post is excellent and telling. It speaks very well for itself.

As for the scatologically interested Troy, I can only agree. We do now have a leader who gives a s**t about our troops. He gives the same for the rest of us, and no more. For him it is not about people, it is about concepts like “social justice”, however that is defined.

When you calm down, blast, maybe you could give it another try. I just came by, I don’t have a lengthy history with the site — I drop in from time to time — and I got the point pretty much instantly.

Troy,

I’ve deployed for Clinton and Bush II but I didn’t get the impression that either didn’t give a shit about us, as you put it. So what are you talking about?

Also, Z has made a good point alluding to the fact that President Obama has not changed the way in which we fight. So what are you talking about?

And we don’t have to call attention to the men and women in uniform who give there lives so much now, as we finally have a leader who gives a shit about them.

Get a clue.

I have to correct this:

“…but I suspect most of the casualties (deaths) were related to being there and serving our country”.

No, every casualty and illness is related to serving the country and that includes the young Marine killed in a motorcycle crash in San Diego, the soldier that died in a drowning in Germany or the sailor, airman, or Coastie that passed away for any other reason you can imagine anywhere around the globe. They all serve our country and deserve better than to be “memorialized” in some snarky, 1960’s throw back comic strip that serves the agenda of its partisan artist. And you know it.

I hope Doonsbury will continue his effort to memorialize the names of the fallen. I could careless about his politics, but I do appreciate the respectful manner in which he presented their names. I never saw the Nightline thing, nor before this post ever knew about the Doonsbury memorial. I will be printing out the Doonsbury strips from this post.

Not “As if….”, but as in a complete removal of the entire walnut. If there had only been some objective journalism available to fill the void….

Though at times I’ve enjoyed some of his characters, I’ve always found mixed messages, as well as some pretty hoary stereotypes in much of his work. His work as been so partisan, it’s impossible to separate his politics from his intent. He takes a lot more time to say (and not always successfully) what he means than the late Paul Conrad or the current Dave Granlund. In column space, Garry Trudeau is very indulged.

I don’t think we need his statement:
“It’s not exactly a secret that I opposed this war,” .
I mean, who cares? The focus should be on the men and women who served in this war and all others. Just put the names up, draw the cartoon, and end it there. There’s no need for interviews if the message you’re conveying is clear.
But obviously, this wasn’t the case. Hence, the frosting on the cake. This was a political piece through and through.

Wordsmith,

You’ve done an excellent job making the point here and the back-up by Aye Chihuahua slams the door on any doubt. (Cartoonist on “sabbatical” – that’s a bigger laugh than most of Trudeau’s comics themselves. It wouldn’t surprise me if Trudeau spent his vacation licking something for Obama – could be envelops, could have been something else.)

My comments about the numbers was specifically directed at blast’s KIA figures, not the total you mentioned as you did not make a distinction between hostile fire deaths and deaths due to accidents, illness, etc. The numbers blast used also include non-combat deaths (As do the figures from iCasualites). Please understand that these totals are not strictly KIA. That was my point and it was not made to bash blast, just to set the record straight because we are frequently treated to erroneous reporting from various media sources on matters that really do make a difference. I don’t believe blast meant to distort the figures and whether iCasualites has a hidden agenda or not, I don’t know or care, but it would be best if they made a clear distinction for the sole sake of being accurate.