Sep
9
2005
Cindy Sealed The Deal. I'm Now A Republican
1Cindy Sealed The Deal. I'm Now A Republican
"I actually felt myself become a republican today. It was around 10am, when I read the latest update of the Cindy Sheehan saga in CNN.com. I then shot over to read some blogs about it, and perused the comments in some of them, which was nothing but a long series of petty (albeit entertaining) partisan bickering.
Then it happend. The good little democrat in me tied the little noose around his neck and jumped off the stool. He just couldn’t take it anymore.
Take what? The whining. The constant whining by the extreme left about the reasons for war, the incompetence of this administration, and how we’ve all been lied to, and how we should pull out of Iraq immediately, because, *gulp* our soldiers were in danger.
Guess what folks….they signed up to join the Army, not the boy scouts. Anytime your orientation to a new job involves an automatic weapon, you should be smart enough to figure out there’s danger involved. I actually read some people’s comments about many of the soldiers over there being naive….they weren’t expecting to go to war, so, they should be allowed to go home. Wow.
Soldiers know, when they enlist, that it is entirely possible they will be shipped out and never come home. It’s part of the job. The fact that people still walk in to recruiters’ offices and sign that piece of paper make them heroes. To imply that they are simple kids who didn’t know what they were getting into, or even worse, that they died for no reason, or an immoral reason, does a horrible thing. It strips their sacrifice of the honor that it deserves. Even though those folks sitting out there in the Texas fields claim to honor and support the soldiers, they obviously have been blinded by their own selfishness as to the real way to support them."
Via MassRight
What They Said:
RantUser says My question to you is on 11/20/2005
When did you last thank a soldier for protecting your freedom of speech? As a wife of a soldier, reading those words hurt- yes he knew, yes I knew when I enlisted- but until you've been in the recruiters office (pre 9/11) and have had him tell you, "No, this MOS is a TDA slot, which means you are non- deployable," and actually believe him....yeah. Anyhow, I don't know you, probably never will, but accidently came across this and had to comment...
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