So bring them home and please stop sending them to senseless and useless wars. I’ve been thinking a lot about loss of life and limb in these countless wars.
It all started with watching clips from the Saturday night debate in New Hampshire and culminated with a story about a soldier here in my home state of North Carolina.
Let me start at the beginning with the flare-up between Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul on military service. Paul has been attacking Gingrich for not serving in the military while supporting potential military action in places like Iran and rightly so. Gingrich is not unlike war mongers such as Dick Cheney who support wars but did all they could to get out of serving when it was their time. Turns out Newt’s little feelings got hurt or perhaps he felt guilty and he pushed back on this statement made by Dr. Paul who said, “I don’t like it when we send our kids off to fight these wars and when those individuals didn’t go themselves, and then come up and when they’re asked they say, ‘Oh I don’t think one person could have made a difference.’ I have a pet peeve that annoys me to a great deal because when I see these young men coming back my heart weeps for them.”
In rides slimy Newty to defend his non-serving behind and to whine like George W. Bush who foolishly went into Iraq because Saddam tried to kill his daddy years earlier.
“Dr Paul has a long history of saying things that are inaccurate and false. The fact is I never asked for a deferment, I was married with a child, it was never a question. My father was in fact serving in Vietnam in the Me-Kong delta at the time he’s referring to. I think I have a pretty good idea of what it’s like as a family to worry about your family getting killed. And I personally resent the kind of comments an aspersions he routinely makes without accurate information.”
Really Newt, don’t you know when to shut your damn mouth. He would not win this one and Paul shut him down in two seconds… “When I was drafted, I was married and had two kids. And I went.”
Paul went! That speaks volumes about Newt who is in fact a coward.
Let me wrap up with my second story about the injured young soldier from North Carolina. Pat McIlvain was shot in the head while serving in Afghanistan. The good news is he survived but he can’t walk, he can’t speak and requires full time care due to his brain injury. Once a good hockey player he’s reconnecting with the ice as a form of therapy. Here is the kicker he voluntarily went to Afghanistan a semester before he was scheduled to graduate from college. He went! And that speaks volumes about the commitment that some men, women and their families have given to this American war effort. While the story was inspiring it was sad to watch and I have to agree with Paul that my heart weeps for them as well.
I’ll say it again, I support the troops, now please bring them all home!
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