[Vision2020] A "Peace" of Grass---featuring a GI in Iraq

[Chasuk]

On 5/31/06, rvrcowboy <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net> wrote:

> I believe you are right; you have grown too cynical.  So much so that you
> would belittle the messenger just because you are pissed at the originator.

I belittled the messenger?

> Just try to put the soldiers ahead of your politics for a little while.

The soldiers are the instrument of politics, so that is a difficult
separation to make.  Further, I consider such a separation dishonest,
and I value honesty more than any other virtue.

> At least give them the benefit of the doubt.  No one is asking you to hope and pray that the charges are not true.  But you should.

Soldiers are not a special class of people.  Of course I hope that
this brutality did not occur, but at this time that seems a vain hope.
 If details emerge that exonerate our soldiers, then their families
will understandably smile and weep for joy, but it will not bring back
the dead, and it is for the dead that I mourn, not the reputations of
volunteers.