I'll Have Another Round, Bartender

Billmon, who's serving the drinks over at the Whiskey Bar, wants to make sure this is on the record before it gets lost in the Richard Clarke maelstrom:

Terry Holt, the chief spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign was quoted saying in the Washington Post today:

"John Kerry's campaign seems to be summed up this way: I went to Vietnam, yadda, yadda, yadda, I want to be president."

If you have a few minutes, please give the article a look.

On the same topic, I've been letting a line from a while back smolder in my head for a bit. It's something a lot of folks in the warmonger crowd sputtered when it became clear that Iraq was to be "a long hard slog." It went, "Well, they [the troops] knew what they were getting into when they signed up."

As I posted in the comments above, that's the moral equivalent of spitting on the troops. And those who support Bush, who is trying to cut Veteran's Benefits even as he issues Stop-Loss orders that keep folks enlisted beyond their legal obligation, are doing the same.

If nothing else, right-wingers, you should have enough of a conscience to appreciate the dangers soldiers face. You owe them. Welcome the soldiers back with something more than a pat on the back and a hand in their wallet. Tell Bush he needs to do a hell of a lot more for our veterans (of ALL our conflicts). That's the least he can do. With luck, it could be the last thing he does prior to retiring permanently to the Crawford ranch house.