Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Support Our Troops stickers. Yeah I get the need to not shit on troops for fighting a war I don't agree with. The grievance is with the policy makers. I get that. And so does everyone. We all do support our troops as long as it's clapping for them when they walk through airports. But given that the US military still won't acknowledge Gulf War Syndrome and pay for treatment, won't acknowledge the continuing danger of using U238 shells, and won't acknowledge that the wars we fight are tending to create more wars (hell we can't even get unlimited healthcare to emergency personnel of 9/11) I don't any of that is doing any good to the actual troops. In fact, Support Our Troops seems more like code for Support Our Wars.

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