Hypocrisy On Parade

Over at The Left Coaster there's a good piece about how the administration is screwing the troops both coming and going -- in other words, setting them up for failure by not giving them the supplies and training that they need to keep from getting killed in Iraq, and then neglecting them medically and psychologically when they come home wounded and traumatized. It points out the irony of the pro-war Republicans and all those who back the bloody Iraq debacle (hello, Joe Lieberman!) claiming that they "support the troops" when the reality is that all they support is carnage at someone else's expense.

To my mind, this is almost exactly the same mindset as those folks who are against abortion have. (Indeed, many of these people share both views, which should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention for the past 25 years or so.) The so-called pro-life crowd will protest and bomb and assassinate in an attempt to prevent women from having control of their bodies, justifying it all by saying that they are only concerned for the rights of the fetus, but once those babies are born, most of those same pro-lifers couldn't give a skinny rat's ass about any select dozen of them. And in the same way, those people who are the loudest about their supposed support for the troops in reality only support them as long as they are able to kill Iraqi (and soon, in all likelihood, Iranian) citizens. Once they've served their purpose and come home as damaged goods or in a coffin, they're very conveniently forgotten. It's just despicable, is what it is. And these shameless bastards have the nerve to call people like us -- people who support the troops by wanting to bring them home safe -- traitors. Unbelievable. We are so through the looking glass in this country any more it's ridiculous. Or "rediculous," as Dick Cheney might put it.

(Full disclosure: This post is an expansion of a comment I left at The Left Coaster.)