Zero accountability

Eric Alterman is a terrific writer. Today he asks the same question he's been asking over and over, which most of us ask over and over.

Given the circumstances of what has transpired since the 2000 election, how is it that we go each day with a business as usual attitude?

Isn't it really bizarre how apathetic American's are in a post 9/11 world, where the WPE (worst president ever) is not impeached? Worse yet, he got reelected. Amazing.

Anyway.. that's not the part that I wanted to comment on. Alterman does note that constantly harping on that weird apathy is boring. Instead, I'd again like to point out how the "support the troops" republicans actually are scumbags.

It's all about the swiftboating of any democrat who served honorably. Keep in mind, most of the swiftboating is done by Republicans who have never served in the military. In fact, Republican's avoid the military at all costs, as they perceive themselves to be more important than the grunt that gets shot at.

It should come as no surprise that an arch-conservative Web site is questioning whether Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has been critical of the war in Iraq, deserved the combat awards he received in Vietnam.

After all, in recent years extremist Republican operatives have inverted a longstanding principle: that our combat veterans be accorded a place of honor in political circles. This trend began with the ugly insinuations leveled at Senator John McCain during the 2000 Republican primaries and continued with the slurs against Senators Max Cleland and John Kerry, and now Mr. Murtha.

Isn't it interesting that whenever a vet is critical of the political asshattery of a non-vet, the non-vets start questioning the service of the accuser?

John McCain spent years as a NVA POW. The Bush campaign trashed McCain's service record, and won the primary.

John Kerry served with great distinction in Vietnam, and the Bush campaign had everyone thinking Kerry was an NVA sympathizer.

Max Cleland had both legs and an arm blown off in Vietnam and the republican's accused him of being a traitor.

And now John Murtha is under attack for daring to suggest that you do not lie our troops into a war in which thousands of young men and women die.

This is ALL coming from assholes who have never been in the military, nor served in combat!

I'm not sure which is worse.. the hypocritical scumbags that level the accusations, or the dumb fuck American public that lets them get away with it. I have never been more ashamed of the stupidity of the American public in my life... and it just keeps on getting worse and worse.

But hey.. praise Jebus, eh?