Too Good to be Left in Comments, Part II

Bill C’s post linking the Drudge report about Anti-war protestors besieging the wounded and disabled soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C, and the later released story from CNSNews, prompted me to add a rather verbose comment in the form of a fisk that you may have missed. In my infinite wisdom I will know turn it into a post:

But of course they “support our troops” just not the war and Chimpy Bushitler.
Note the standard chickenhawk line from one of the protestors:

“We know most of the George Bush supporters have never spent a day in uniform, have never been closer to a battlefield than seeing it through the television screen.”

That would apply to almost every American, and since when is participation in anything a prerequisite for having an opinion about it. You don’t have to have eaten human flesh to think it’s abhorrent. Did Saint Clinton ever spend a day in uniform? And nobody had a problem with Kosovo, did they.

And the second guessing of what they would feel IF they were one of the wounded:

“If I went to war and lost a leg and then found out from my hospital bed that I had been lied to, that the weapons I was sent to search for never existed, that the person who sent me to war had no plan but to exploit me, exploit the country I was sent to, I would be pretty angry.”

Oh yeah, it’s all about the WMD “lie”.
But the troops are sickened by the display:

“You know that 95 percent of the guys in the hospital bed lost guys whenever they got hurt and survivors’ guilt is the worst thing you can deal with,” Pannell said, adding that other veterans recovering from wounds at Walter Reed share his resentment for the anti-war protesters.
“We don’t like them and we don’t like the fact that they can hang their signs and stuff on the fence at Walter Reed,” he said. “[The wounded veterans] are there to recuperate. Once they get out in the real world, then they can start seeing that stuff (anti-war protests). I mean Walter Reed is a sheltered environment and it needs to stay that way.”

I guess the protestors really don’t give a rat’s ass what the troops themselves really feel or think, just what they would feel if they were in their situation. What a bunch of egomaniacal, self-righteous, patronizing pieces of crap.
The protestors also say they just want the media to report on the wounded the government is trying to hide:

“I am more offended by the fact that they (wounded veterans) have been kept out of the news.”

So, the media only talks about the good news from Iraq, not enough about the dead and wounded? Is this guy for real? Every headline screams, “20 Marines Killed in Car Bombing, Several Wounded…” ad nauseam. And quit the faux sympathy already.
And checkout what Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin has to say about her visit to Fidel’s Cuba in 1980:

“It seem[ed] like I died and went to heaven.”

Yeah, I wish her the former, but quite the opposite for the latter.