I am tired and frustrated and have cried buckets of tears reading stories like the one you're about to read.
I'm fed up with hearing about "acceptable losses" amongst men and women who are giving their lives for people who don't care whether our people live or die. There is no such thing as an "acceptable loss" for an illegal war. One dead is unacceptable, much less 2,318. To quote Howard Beale in the movie, "Network": "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
You warmongering, profiteering ego-centric Republican apologists disgust me and turn my stomach to no end. I'm tired of hearing you using terms like "cut and run" and "terrorist sympathizers" and describing Americans opposed to the war as "unpatriotic". What's wrong? Doesn't the freedom you claim to be providing allow for dissent? Has it ever occurred to you that you were WRONG and that the bigger wrong is to continue laying the lives of worthy men and women on the altar of politics? Have you ever considered pressing the president to look into the camera and for once, instead of lying and making excuses, to say with a modicum of sincerity, "I'm sorry. I was wrong."?
You tout "phantom successes", yet refuse to count the bodies of those who are victims of your wanton power grab. You bellow out, "Support The Troops!" but force men and women who have lost limbs fighting your illegal war to pay for replacing their body armor when they come back to the states without it. Again, you yell, "Support The Troops!" but cut the budget for the Veterans' Administration. YOU are the unpatriotic ones. You shriek, "Support The Troops!", but send a large number of these troops to their third, fourth, fifth or even sixth tour of duty in a country we had no business in to begin with and that doesn't want us there now.
I read stories like this one and it makes me want to treat your party like the dogs they are. . .rubbing their noses in their mess until they realize that what they've done is wrong. WRONG! WRONG! This is what you're doing to families! This is what you're doing to people! American People!
Stop being a damned Republican and start being a HUMAN. . .an AMERICAN HUMAN!