Tim Blair

Gotta love the comment about Klansman Byrd. Fancy that, a Democrat in the Klan!

"Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democratic elder statesmen"...nary a word about his klan past to put Miller's joke in context.

speaking of sleeves rolled up.
in other words, he can roll up his sleeves all he likes, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a chickenhawk.

did it ever occur to you that the war generals you look up to were at one point in their lives, chickenhawks? they weren't born warriors (unless, of course, you believe in reincarnation).

did it ever occur to you that i don't look up to war generals?

No Adam it sounds more like you look down on everyone else. God I hate pretentious bastards, and the left if full of them.

i look eye to eye with everyone. i have no need to tilt my head either upwards or downwards.

Ah, and now comes the scintillating passive-aggro garbage the raving socialist moonbats are ALSO famous for.

Look, jackass, you clearly regard anyone who supports a non-castrated military as an effete hypocrite (those who have never served) or a bloodhungry tyrant who hasn't earned your respect despite a career of sacrifice (those who have served).

But the majority of Americans always will regard the sad little boy-men whose only useful function is to bitch about men far more valuable than themselves as the ones TRULY undeserving of esteem.

FOAD.

on the contrary, on questions war-related i greatly respect the opinion of people who have fought in wars. if they advocate fighting some new war, they do so with eyes open. i respect, for example, george orwell's call to arms during the 2nd world war, on account of the fact that he'd fought in the spanish world war. he knew the horrors of war, yet still he thought the price was worth it.

bush has no idea of the horrors of war, and neither do the armchair strategists that surround him.

also, since i am not american, i could care less what you say the majority of them think of me. and ooo "sad little boy men", that really hurts.

But Saddam does have an idea of the horrors of war, mainly because he's inflicted them so often. Respect!

Adam, If you have never served in the military and if we go by the standards you have set, I don't think you are even qualified to have this discussion. Just leave it to the military. Which is an odd thing for a liberal or anyone else with half a brain to think. If Bush had single-handedly scaled a cliff and taken a Battalion of nazis' at Pointe du Hoc, it would be said Bush is a war-monger because he is shell-shocked. It's win-win argument for a liberal.

I've served in the Military, though I haven't seen war, so I think I'm partially qualified to tell you to shut-up.

Since my husband is serving in Iraq right now, and also served in the Panama envasion, the first Gulf War, Somolia and supports Bush, on behalf of my husband I must tell you to shut-up...normally I would never tell someone to shut-up (except my whinning 5 yr old), I'm only doing what you said I could.

Adam: also, in the U.S., the military is under civilian control. It's kind of a big sticking point with the Americans.

Besides, what do you do with the people who are anti-war who served in the military? Are their pro-peace views not valid because they served? Are men not allowed to discuss women's issues because they've never been women? Does a person not get a say on tax policy if they've never paid taxes?

you people are all labouring under a misapprehension that by saying i "greatly respect" the opinion of a former soldier, i mean to say that i pay no heed to anyone else. which is quite obviously not what i said. also, saddam never fought in any wars to my knowledge, he left the actual fighting to his 15 yr old conscripts.