No Soldiers Here

Their Depravity and Obscenity are Boundless § Unqualified Offerings By Mona

Scooter Libby is a “Fallen Soldier”:

In “The Soldier’s Creed,” there is a particularly compelling principle: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” This is a cherished belief, and it has been so since soldiers and chroniclers and philosophers thought about wars and great, common endeavors. Across time and space, cultures, each in its own way, have given voice to this most basic of beliefs. They have done it, we know, to give heart to those who embark on a common mission, to give them confidence that they will not be given up under duress. A process that yields up Scooter Libby to a zealous prosecutor is justice gone awry….

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He can’t be left behind as a casualty of a war our country had once proudly claimed as its own. [my emphasis]

These people are sheerly repulsive. There are some photographs available online of hideously maimed Iraq war vets. Then there are the dead ones. I’m not going to include such a graphic because I am not comfortable with the morality of using such depictions in a political rant. But use your imagination, and ponder they who rhapsodize about “Soldier’s Creeds” and etc. for Scooter effing Libby in the context of the Iraq war, with its actual dead and disabled.

Grotesque."

[Eyes bug. Sweat pops. Heart pounds. Hands tremble] ... and Paris Hilton is a victim, too.