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Yet Ron Paul slanders our troops

Document that.

and would cut them off at the knees before their work is completed.

Their work was done when they got Saddam. It may come as a shock to you, but you don't use the military for nation building. You use a military for nation breaking. Right or wrong, that mission is accomplished. Time to bring em home.

If that’s the LIEbertarian position, it’s no better than a LIEberal DUmocrats who slander our commanders.

i've just articulated the Libertarian position to you. That you choose to believe your own slander is not really my problem.

Time to bring em home.

An excellent blog by a soldier just returned from Iraq, Army of Dude describes his arrival back home:

It has been a week since our triumphant return to the states, to America, the first world. And as it wasn’t quite like I imagined in June, it was every bit as wonderful and surreal as I thought it would be. Every moment leading up to the march to the gym was met with cheers and hysterical laughter. Getting off the plane, turning in our guns, getting on a bus…at every step we got closer to seeing loved ones. You could feel it in your face and hear it in the voice of anyone you talked to.
We took a bus to the base gym, where our friends and family waited for us. We stopped short to get lined up nice and neat so we could march in with our backpacks and laptop cases around our necks. Near the entrance there were people already holding signs and clapping. Someone yelled, “hey, Horton!” but luckily I wasn’t met with a barrage of cabbage and apple cores. A few more steps and we entered the gym. By the crowd’s reaction, it’s as if we won the Superbowl. We stopped in the center and it was still so loud no one heard the shortest speech of all time given by a general. “Good job etc, proud of you all yadda yadda, be safe and so forth.” On that note, it became a mad house as people rushed from the bleachers and into the scattered formation. Foregoing all military discipline, I looked around the room while at attention to locate my family. As the gym started to clear out I found Bryan, also family-less, and we agreed to look together. Suddenly I caught a glimpse of my dad running up, with my mom not far behind and with her, Lauren.
One of the first things I said to my dad after a big hug was, man, that was a long twelve months.
Seeing my mom get teary-eyed almost made me let loose, but I held my composure by making a point to. Lauren told me she wasn’t going to be there, as to make it a family event. But she decided to come and we’re both glad she did. A beautiful moment with a beautiful woman. Yes, this is what I’ve been missing.

One of my favorite bloggers, Jim Henley, commented on this, and I really encourage everyone to read the whole thing:

Make no mistake, if the Congress “votes against money for the troops” and the angry antiwar “base” forces a precipitous withdrawal, you’ll see this nightmare scenario replicated on bases all over America, even in Western Europe and East Asia - a hundred-fifty thousand little “defeats.”