Look who's spitting now?

Because the soldiers dare to deny the fantasy demanded of them.

Digby of Hullabaloo:

The keyboard commandos are in grave danger of jumping the patriotic shark at this point. As much as these movie addled children love the glory they think other people dying confers upon them, the horror of war is actually very real. And the reality affects those who fight it directly, not those who sit in judgment between trips to the mall. Many men and women who have been involved in this thing, regardless of their politics, are injured in body, mind and spirit. But these cheerleaders on the right apparently aren't willing to put up with any veteran who doesn't hide all feelings of ambiguity, pain or disagreement. They are already calling them "phony", mentally unstable or malingerers in the right wing noise machine. It's not likely to get any better.

This war has always been a movie to them. And these people like their entertainment to be simple black and white battles between good 'n evul. Soldiers with problems or misgivings about the war are uncomfortable shades of gray, participants with moral authority who actually donned the uniform and threw themselves into danger and yet they behave in ways that can only be understood as "liberal". The enemy. Some will even need help from the government and many will think they deserve it, even as they say they are now against the war they fought. How would a John Wayne cartoon deal with that?

The Iraq War Vets are coming back to a country in which many of the military's most ardent defenders demand they never allow anyone to see what they have been through or speak views that might force armchair generals to face the fact that war is not a game and that the American military is made up of real human beings instead of figments of a Hollywood screenwriter's imagination. They fought for Rush Limbaugh's fantasies. What a terrible thing to do to them.

The wingnut base has invested so much in this Eternal War on Terror, this rabid holy crusade, this patri-idiotic rallying behind an ever-so-clearly intellectually challenged president, this bulldozing of the Constitution and all things which defined us as Americans and gave us the moral high ground.

They have invested so much of themselves that to question any part of the Bush administration is to question their manhood, their faith, and their very reason for living. They ignore facts because to doubt is to doubt themselves. They ignore the bizarre leaps of logic, flipflopping, denials of obvious fact, changes of direction and listen only to the latest words of their leader. (Ignoring and even denying what he said yesterday.) This man must be the one to lead them to the promised land, the holy grail, the Rapture. He must be a man full of faith, full of confidence, full of righteousness.

And they will never admit ... NEVER admit he can and is wrong. Because to admit this is to deny God.