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My terribly substantial point, which you weren't quite sharp enough to get the first few times, is that the phrase 'support the soldiers' is Orwellian double-speak considering the fact that your idea of 'supporting' them is an absolute willingness to oblige them to suffer and possibly die fighting a pointless war you're too bloody credulous to see through. They are humans before they are soldiers, and, as such, have as much right to live as you do; or don't you think so? Likewise, invoking the Ur-jingoistic phrase 'defending our nation' is absurd in this context given the fact that before the U.S. invasion, Iraq was neither capable of nor inclined towards invading North America. Both phrases have been very cleverly pressed through your dough-soft skull by political operatives whose boundless cynicism is far out-stripped by the even more boundless gullibility of their target demo: YOU.
That's my point.
'Nighty night, burger-butt.
