I'll put it more bluntly: I'm an Iraq veteran

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Not only am I an Iraq veteran, I was (quite to the contrary of my contract) tasked with being a mortuary affairs clerk.

My job was to tag'em and bag'em. If you died, we got you home. Period. We lost three guys getting one arm home. That's just how it is. If you don't get why that's worth it, fuck you.

Now, let me try to explicate more fully a post I made earlier in GDP.

There are some Democrats who voted for this war who want to be President. Lieberman could pull that off. Maybe. But even that is a stretch.

If you voted for this war, you better fucking be into it for the long haul. Guess what: those of us under E-7 in the Corps knew it was for the long haul. Did we have some sort of magical clairvoyance? Or did we just have the knowledge built from 230+ years of Marine and Navy doctrine, years that you and your temporizing friends shat upon?

I jumped out of a moving HMM-WV and pulled the lifeless remains of a British (not even American) soldier into the vehicle because for Christ's sake everyone who dies will make it home as long as there is breath in my body (that was my own personal pledge as a mortuary affairs clerk).

Don't talk to me about the risks Kerry, Edwards, or Clinton faced to their "careers" (and, no I don't think "Senator" is a real job, so spare me). I actually took risks. I actually got shot at because of their votes.

As I said in another thread and will repeat now:

No Democrat who voted for this war will ever be President.

I'm sorry for that fact, because I like Kerry, Edwards, and Clinton. It makes me sad they voted for it. But the facts are the facts. This war is still the deciding issue. You are with it or against it. And no one who claims to be against it but voted for it will ever win, period. Because frankly people aren't nearly as stupid as consultants think we are.