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When I came back from Vietnam, I couldn't change into my civies fast enough. No matter I could fly for free in uniform. I did not want to be glowered at, and, like Zoltan, I sure wanted to to nail some of those free and friendly radical chicks. Nevermind they were spreading clap far faster than the baar girls of South Vietnam.
Fast forward 41 years: Last Christmans, I had a brief layover in the Atlanta Airport. We suddenly heard a loud roar of cheers and applause and I thought maybe the Hawks or Falcons were traveling through. The cheers kept getting louder, and suddenly we saw a batallion of US Armey men and women in desert fatigues waving and skiping and blowing kisses at all of us who were cherring for these beautiful young men and women who were home on Christmas leave.
You better not get too cocky in this heree saloon, my frems.
Unlike soldiers in my time, these kids can blog from their battle zones. No one recognized the wells we dug and the villages we protected and the water buffalo we bought for our allies. We were cast as murderers because of one rogue second louie and his piss poor fighting men.
Some of the best and brightest of our young today have volunteered to stand up to terror now, and they can tell you true stories of their service over there, but most of you have no interest in listening. They too dig wells and purify drinking water and get school supplies for the kids.
Those kids in fatigues and backpacks blowing kisses in that airport represent many hundreds of thousands who will actively fight your efforts to discredit them and all the good they have been doing to liberate Iraq from Al Queda, depose the bloody Sadam in Iraq and defeat the Taliban killers in Afghanistan.
You have won ONE election, and the more you push and the more you worship murdering sneaks like Ayres and Dhorn, the more push back and future defeats you can expect.
Obama has a great opportunity to finsh the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, and to truly bring us all of us together. If, on the other hand, he does what most of you would like, do not exoect the rest of us to quietly slink away.
