All veterans are not equal, however. There is a significant difference between the heroes at Yorktown, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima and the cowards abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere).
Most of the folks serving their time in the service of Halliburton ("I have a good idea! Let's go make a big mess and deploy the military so that there will be plenty of opportunities to need support from a large provider of cleanup and military support services!) are there quite involuntarily, and are just trying to stay alive. (I suppose that just trying to stay alive is what soldiers an all deployments are doing.)
Don't call them heroes. There's nothing particularly heroic about why they're there or what they're doing.
Freedom Isn't Free! Right, you pay for it with your freedom. At least in this regime. It has nothing to do with Saddam or Osama. They posed no threat to American freedom. Imagine the Gore Administration's response to 9/11. There probably wouldn't be any secret prisons.
Why is it that only during Bush Administrations that Mobius rhetoric like "Freedom Isn't Free" and rhetorically unassailable "Support Our Troops"? Could it have anything to do with the fundamental fallaciousness of their policies?
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