[A Balrog of Morgoth]

I wonder about morale.

In the immortal words of that famous combat veteran, John Kerry, "Who wants to be the last man to die for a mistake"?

What does the crap we're hearing today say to those who have been or shortly will be deployed to Iraq?

Risk your life in defense of freedom, unless the home front gets queasy watching the evening news. Then we'll just make deals with people behind the ones that shoot at you, and we'll bring you home in disgrace.

Maybe this time around, nobody in uniform will get spit on and called a babykiller.

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This whole thing is eerily reminiscent of Kerry testifying on War Crimes during the Viet Nam War, and demoralizing the troops.

If I had a family member who gave their life for the cause of America, I don't know how I could take this crap from these enemy-sympathizers!