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Next time you declare, “I'm gonna try some common sense on you here…” at least try to ensure it makes sense, even if it isn’t common. Everything you wrote is nothing but a poorly written diatribe.
Even your subject line protrays your cluelessness. Courage is pulling your buddy back to safety under fire"...or out of the war entirely, possibly? Who said anything about war? I gave three examples, only one of which is about the war, and that example didn’t even involve fighting. Plenty of people are pulled to safety under fire in times other than war.
“Courage is pulling your buddy back to safety under fire, courage is treating Iraqis with respect when you have no whether they are enemies or not, courage is going into the South during Jim Crow and risking your life to register black voters.”
It’s obvious you don’t care about our soldiers, and it’s inconceivable for you to reconcile that people can oppose the war and not oppose our soldiers.
As to “who do you think gives more of a damn about the soldiers as living, breathing people---the so-called 'Lefties' who think those poor folks should be spared the indignity of being maimed and killed in Iraq, or TV-tanned burger-butt Hawks like YOU who love the catch-phrases” Perhaps when arguing against the use of catch phrases you shouldn’t resort to juvenile rhetoric phrases such as burger-butt or TV-Tanned, and even Dumbass Lifetime Achievement Certificate.
