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"Our government may be wasting money and lives with its war, but the military's role is far greater and more important than simply that." You kinda make wasting lives seem like a minor concern there, kid. Your letter strikes me as a schizophrenic mish-mosh of trying to come off as NOT right-wing while espousing some fairly right-wing sentiments.
See, all this time I've been wondering: if so many people claim to be against the war, how come Bush is still in office and even seems to be gearing up for more mischief in Iran? Yeah, I was scratching my head over that one. Well, folks, maybe now we have an answer to that: Conliberals! They pay lip-service to certain Liberal ideals (the whole PC shebang), while displaying extremely Conservative reflexes! Witness dear Chloe testifying that she has no 'illusions about the glories of our military' (a very Lefty sarcasm, that), yet, immediately afterwards she falls back on that hoariest of Republican riffs about our military having a job to do, etc. Anybody who protests a war that even Chloe herself doesn’t even seem too thrilled about is some kind of whiner, in her book. Which reminds me of one of Donny R.’s favorite catch-phrases: Get over it! (Get a life, you whiney, freako, loud-mouth loser trouble makers! Nobody likes YOU anyway!)
Chloe, if you agree that this Iraq thing sucks, doesn’t it bother you at all that people on both sides are getting their heads blown off over it? Or are all those people expendable in your book? Are you saying that people should enlist in the military and just kinda hope the war they get is a good one? And if the one they get is a bad one, and they have to lose an arm or their sight or their extremely precious lives over a senseless mistake (or a nefarious plot), they should go along with it so people like you at home don’t get, like, exasperated with ‘em? And this goes for their grieving mom and dad and siblings and wife (or husband) and kids, too? Just, like, a shut up you whiners and don’t make trouble kinda thing?
Christ, I'm FINALLY starting to understand you m------f-----s!
