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Very rarely do I ever directly point a finger at a person, but I found this video posted, and then I went and researched the page myself and here is what I have found. His site is sick, and his point that he is trying to make is about pay scale but his argument is bring pointed at the wrong place. Yet I wonder sometimes how a person could feel he could get long running support from a view like this. How could someone feel that any American would possibly side with him in anyway? Then I did a little looking around and found the following

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama opposed the war-funding bill... Washington Post "The Troop Funding Trap" June 2, 2007 pg. 13

Democratic presidential hopeful and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina harshly criticized the legislation. "Washington failed America today when Congress surrendered to the president's demand for another blank check that prolongs the war in Iraq," Edwards said in a statement.

Democratic Rep. David Obey, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, joined Pelosi in voting against the bill.
(both above from CNN.com "House, Senate pass war funding bill" May 25, 2007)

On top of that we have the situation from the University of Colorado when former
professor Ward Churchill wrote and later stated:

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were a response to a long history of U.S. abuses. Churchill said those killed in the World Trade Center collapse were "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire" and called them "little Eichmanns." msnbc.msn.com "Professor fired after 9/11-Nazi comparison" Updated: 8:24 p.m. ET July 24, 2007

From the above examples we have, people with terminal degrees, and nationally known politicians going around playing with the funds for the troops. And thankfully none of this irresponsible chatter has actually changed the policy.

A more important point and the one that I started out to make is this. When we have simple, immature and allegedly money hungry individuals like Mr. Crook, who do not take the time to at least attempt (I don't have a book with me on how to cite, and while I did learn this in college, I found that I have not maintained it due up to now not truly having a reason to use it) to cite sources where the quotes come from. We in this country have to remember that the brave men and women in the armed forces, who fight these battles for our freedoms, also expect us to act responsibly with the freedoms. That is a point I think we too readily forget.

One of the responsibilities of having free speech is to know you must truly explain yourself clearly, and if you are in a position of influence that responsibility is even higher. If you are talking to the general public, you must remember that while most people have average intelligence or above and can follow logical thought, there are the Michael Crooks out there that will take any window of opportunity to use to reach their own ends. With no thought to others feelings.

Lets remember this moron the next time we start openly blasting the war, or the funding, and when we do debate it openly let us do so with the same factual rules we would want followed if we were on trial. Using cited sources and factual evidence, keeping the attacks on the right people and not just throwing our witless comments out there.

Now some people will read this and say I am witless, but I will stand by two things, one the cites are there, and there is enough to at least find the articles I was reading, and two I want to state without a shadow of a doubt that the troops that are all over the world are the true defenders of virtue and freedom and I will support them with my heart, my faith, my words, my arguments and my money where I can. I believe that my freedom was bought and paid for by those that have come before me and defended freedom and those that are doing so now are the continuation of that Greatest Generation.