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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
There are 140,000 American troops in Iraq. 6,916 of them have been injured in fighting (and 975 of them killed, for a total of 7,891 total casualties, but for now let's just concentrate on the walking/rolling wounded). For those of you keeping score at home, that's one out of twenty eligible for Purple Heart consideration.

Can we agree to start doing the work on figuring out which of them are fakers and malingerers, rather than wait 30 years to narrow it down to just the ones who run for some kind of office as Democrats? Because 7,000 is a manageable number, I think we should start building a record now, while memories are still fresh and no one has shamefully testified before Congress on an automatic "I'm a vet and a war hero" pass. Let's keep these malingering pricks from getting medals and making Jesus cry to begin with, so we can shame them now and not have to wait so long. Let us learn from the lessons of Vietnam.

Remember, the severity of the injury is not the determining factor (cough, Cleland, cough), so leave no stone unturned. The next generation's Karl Roves and Ann Coulters will thank us --- let's not let them down!

Maybe we can short circuit this even more. Would you agree that those of us who stayed home and did important home front stuff, like say posting photos of a fat Teddy kennedy are just as eligible for elected office as the "vets?"