Irritation at the Democrats and other disagreeable fauna has distracted me from observing the truly, awesomely criminal minds at work at the helm of state. Can we imagine just for a moment how the reactionary scream-machine would react if Barack Obama had uttered the following lines to soldiers in Afghanistan:
I must say, I'm a little envious. It must be exciting for you, in some ways romantic, you know, confronting danger.
They would rip him to shreds for treating warfare as a big game, for disrespecting our troops and for looking so juvenile and unpresidential.
Of course, given that George Bush actually uttered those sentences on Thursday, no one even notices. He’s like the town idiot that you try not to hear when he wanders down the main street talking too loudly.
If there is anything more loathesome, more repugnant, more psychotically irresponsible than making a disastrous war into an adolescent beat-off fantasy when you shirked the chance to actually go fight one, I hereby ask anyone reading this to let me know of it.
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