Here's as good a view into the minds of the folks swallowing
Faux er -
Fox News transmittal of Bush League propaganda as I've ever seen:
Father Loses Taste for Revenge in Iraq
Seems this guy's son was killed while serving in Iraq. Rather than condemn Bush and the Neocons for getting his son killed, this guy joined the National Guard and volunteered for Iraq duty because he believes the Iraq war was being fought against the terrorists behind the 9/11 attack. However, first-hand experience in the quagmire has apparently put this man in touch with reality, and he's ready to come home. It's kind of a metaphor for our country's slow awakening to Bush League incompetence.
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But last April 11, a year and a day after his son was killed, Johnson told his Iraq-bound Georgia National Guard unit, the 48th Infantry Brigade, he was ready to join them. They ended up at this dustblown base in Iraq's far west, pulling escort duty for fuel convoys on the bomb-pocked desert highways from Jordan.
Why did he do it? The wiry lean Georgian, an easy-talking man with a boyish, sunburned face, tried to answer the question that won't go away.
"It's a lot of things combined," he said. "One, a sense of duty. I was pissed off at the terrorists for 9/11 and other atrocities. Second, I'd only trained. I wanted combat." And then, he said, "there's some revenge involved. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't."
But there was more on the mind of this man who has done Church of God missionary work as far afield as Peru and the Arctic.
"I don't really have love for Muslim people," Johnson said. "I'm sure there are good Muslims. I try not to be racist." Although he hasn't read the Quran, or spoken with Muslims, he has "heard" the Islamic holy book "teaches to kill Jews and infidels. And it's hard to love people who hate you."
He could love Iraqi children, though, and said he'd hoped "to see them grow up to know right and wrong."
Somewhere along the way, however, the righteous passion cooled, as the over-aged corporal, like tens of thousands of other American soldiers here, faced the reality of Iraq.
(Source: AP via Yahoo Father Loses Taste for Revenge in Iraq, March 17, 2006 [emphasis added.])
Here's a guy who takes everything on faith. Somebody TOLD him Muslims hate non-believers, so he takes it on faith. Somebody TOLD him Bush's Iraq War was stricking back against the terrorists behind 9/11, so he grabs a gun and volunteers for war.