Do you have comment about Mr. Tillman's piece or jus ad hominems against me.
Mr. Tillman is entitled to his opinion as am I, and IMO, Mr. Tillman has let his bitterness overwhelm him and his bitterness becomes insulting to the troops fighting bravely against the terrorists and those supporting our tropps, while Mr. Tillman let's off the hook, the real enemy, the people who wish to kill you and me, the islamofascists.
"Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant.......slapping stickers on cars,"
Those stickers always stuck me as funny, someone/somewhere made a fortune...Barnum was right...
I have both!
And for the record, I was just trying to help out planetesimal by pointing out that he was pouring good energy after bad.
Kevin Tillman is a guy who had his brother killed and then was lied to by our government about how that death came about. So part of his anger with the government, and thus the Bush administration, is justifiable and understandable.
But, of course, he then goes off the deep end, and a) totally forgets why we got into the Iraq War: because Saddam wouldn't live up to the critical surrender terms of the Gulf War; and b) forgets that when we process terrorists through the traditional criminal justice system, they use our system against us.
So all I can do is offer him condolences for his loss, relate to his justifiable anger over the lies told about his brother's loss, and point out how the points he makes in this piece are horribly mistaken.
But I sure won't take the Dane approach and totally misconstrue a sentence to make it look like he's beating up on kids. That would undercut our side's arguments, and enhance his. This is exactly what you are doing, what you are constantly doing, and I hope this explains why it ticks smart conservative off when you do it.