A Comment About

Frustrated Conservative Base Itching to Take Off the Gloves

May 14, 2009 - 12:53 am - by Eric Florack
one old democrat
2009-05-15 23:29:09

@ Chuck Pelto

Chuck – look I really do appreciate your service to our country. Even while I disagree with you on politics, I still honor your service and patriotism.

However, I think you totally misunderstood what Chip was saying. I think he was referring to an existing (or perhaps fictional) magazine or tv ad.

I would like to suggest that your gripe is not really with him. If a lot of democrats did not enlist after the invasion of Iraq, you got to understand that they were always opposed to it.

My question is this: Some 5-8 million young men voted for G W Bush in 2004. One assumes that they supported the war. A lot of them had yellow ribbons on their PU trucks. But where were they chips were down? They were happy to send you guys off to war, then left it to the same 300,000 or so to be sent back on 2nd 3rd and 4th calls of duty while guzzled beer and waved flags. If I were a military man, these are the ones I would be angry at.