Hating Our Troops American Style

Well I think we can pretty much dispense with the whole “Support the Troops but not the War” load of crap. What must it be like to look in the mirror after spending a long day outside Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington DC mocking and tormenting wounded soldiers? This is déjà vu all over again when the parents of these contemptible slime were calling the parents of fallen soldiers in Vietnam and telling them how glad they were that their “baby killer” son had died.

"We went by there one day and I drove by and [the anti-war protesters] had a bunch of flag-draped coffins laid out on the sidewalk. That, I thought, was probably the most distasteful thing I had ever seen. Ever," Pannell, a member of the Army's First Cavalry Division, told Cybercast News Service. "You know that 95 percent of the guys in the hospital bed lost guys whenever they got hurt and survivors' guilt is the worst thing you can deal with," Pannell said, adding that other veterans recovering from wounds at Walter Reed share his resentment for the anti-war protesters.

In an incredibly hubristic example of either psychotic rationalization or cold-blooded evil, “Luke” the protestor provides an explanation for his reprehensible actions

…"If I went to war and lost a leg and then found out from my hospital bed that I had been lied to, that the weapons I was sent to search for never existed, that the person who sent me to war had no plan but to exploit me, exploit the country I was sent to, I would be pretty angry," Luke told Cybercast News Service. "I would want people to do something about it and if I couldn't get out of my bed and protest myself, I would want someone else to do it in my name," he added.

How utterly and shamefully disingenuous and repugnant can a “man” be? The only closely analogous situation to this that I can come with would be to evict a woman from her home the week she had twins, tow her car, and call child protective services to report her for putting her babies out on the street…while laughing at her. That is the kind of sinister motivation at work here. Luke hates the troops more than anything in this world besides George Bush. His cowardice is assaulted and magnified every day when he wakes up to realize that he doesn’t have the courage to fight for a dryer at the Laundromat let alone to defend his family and friends from those that would harm them (that is if his patchouli stinkin’ a$$ ever does laundry).

Luke’s natural capacity for shame at his weakness and gutlessness should produce gratitude for those willing to stand in for him on the bulwarks, but his hippy parents very likely attenuated this innate impulse and turned loose on the world a subhuman factory of hatefulness and depravity. And there are many just like him. So ingrained in them is a pervasive victim status that they scour the planet searching for persecutors that they might adopt in order to maintain the façade of their own oppression. Decadence of that magnitude is only possible in a place where oppression has been completely eradicated generations into the past. And as we know the oppressed have “absolute moral authority” and armed with that authority are capable of acts of barbarism and profligacy that fiction authors could never concoct.

The ugliness and putridity of an organization that would engage in acts of cruelty against their countrymen of such proportions has become once again a scourge in this nation. The irony of this situation is about as thick as I am capable of imagining since it is the soldier that gives the protestor the ability to stand on that soapbox and vomit forth such vile and bilious filth. It is of note to say that the men recuperating in Walter Reed are of a caliber and quality that allows them to forge ahead undaunted in the face such animals. They are much better men and not encumbered with the victim impulse that drives the protestors as they have carried on their backs the load of our safety and freedom. While it is not fair that they must also bear this burden, it is well within their capabilities to do so.

God Bless Our Troops and God Bless America

Blackfive also reporting.

Luke and his ilk are not fit to lick the sweat off of... well you know.
Pulitzer Prize for Michael Yon

UPDATE: The issue of the appropriateness of holding anti-war protests adjacent to a military hospital is an obvious one. As far as I'm concerned, if the government can prevent pro-life protestors from coming within a certain distance of an abortion clinic, it stands to reason that these protests should not be allowed outside of Walter Reed. I don't know if the Freepers or whoever is spearheading the counter-protests have pursued this angle, but it is certainly worthy of exploration.