Troops inured to politics

That's how Brad Hamlett,guest columnist and serving in Iraq, titled his editorial in The State out of Columbia SC.

He starts it out with this:

"The partisans can only imagine how we soldiers must feel over here because few have ever been to any combat zone.

Those who have served, especially in our failed foreign policy conflicts, will understand where Brad is coming from, if you visit and read his whole editorial.

A political line they love to use to quash opponents’ views always says something about “slapping the troops in the face.”

It's nice to know that those who Serve haven't changed, even in our present day Professional Military, from our day's, I guess we were Unprofessional, illegal conflict.

For the record, we soldiers don’t care. Let me clarify: Frankly, my dear, we don’t give a damn.

And you know what, he's right. Except, as now, back in the 70's many went from apathedic about the politics of to activism to change our failed policies. It's happening again, and like everything else about this present day debacle, Vietnam on Speed, it's happening faster. The understanding of what went wrong, right from the beginning!

Take a trip over and read what Brad has to say.

And for those going to see the opening of "Sicko" tonight you might want to catch this short interview with Michael over at Rolling Stone:

Exclusive: Michael Moore Talks Sicko With Rolling Stone

Documentary filmmaker Moore stopped in at the Rolling Stone office this afternoon to grab lunch and talk health care — and then he chatted with Deputy Managing Editor Eric Bates about how the U.S. health-care system fares compared to the rest of the world, and which nation’s impressive health care even covers spa treatments.

Read Peter Travers’ Sicko review.