Saturday, March 24, 2007

magnetic yellow ribbons

To those on the other side of the aisle who are opposed, I want to ask you the same questions that my gunner asked me when I was leading a convoy up and down Ambush Alley one day. He said, ‘Sir, what are we doing over here? What's our mission? When are these Iraqis going to come off the sidelines and fight for their own country?' So to my colleagues across the aisle - - - your taunts about supporting our troops ring hollow if you are still unable to answer those questions now four years later.



Representative Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania spoke those words on the floor of the House this past week.

A bunch of assholes in Portland did this:



I'll write more about what's stupid and wrong about this later, but the salt mines beckon.