4. If you could have a medal or a trip home, which would you take?
That question is a real canard. No soldier, no matter how patriotic or sure of his mission is going to say he/she would rather have a medal than a trip home. He knows that.
He also knows that once the answer is given, it can be spun into "See! They don't want to be here! They want to go home!" Rooney's sleaze knows no limit.
Yes, he does. If we challenge his pronouncements, we publicize them. What do you think is the better course: ignore him, or fight him?
My initial gut reaction when I read his words was to do personal violence to him!!! But that is not an option.