KARL ROVE TALKS TOUGH...

Here's Karl speaking recently about the war in Iraq... and those "pussy" Democrats like retired veteran John Murtha:

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"They may be with you for the first shots... but they're not gonna be there for the last tough battles."
- Karl Rove

Wow! Spoken like a true veteran of the Armed Forces of America, right? I mean "first shots"... and "tough battles"? That's the talk of a true hero, right? Except the closest ol' Karl ever got to "tough battles" was fighting painful writer's cramp as he filed for several student deferments after graduating from high school in the spring of 1969.

To make this irony even more palpable, according to an old classmate (and friend) of Rove's named Mark Gustavson, his reasoning for not wating to fight sounds eerily similar to what's currently taking place in the Middle East:

Far from being a conscientious objector, Gustavson recalls, Rove's opposition to the war was political. He considered the conflict a "political skirmish that was not being properly administered."

Now I know what you're saying... "Karl Rove had a FRIEND?"

But seriously, I'm not saying that Rove shouldn't have the ability to talk about the war in Iraq, or even the reasons for staying. But to imply that people like Murtha don't have the nerve to "stay the course"... while chickenhawks like Rove can face these "tough battles" is a hard pill to swallow.

Murtha had this to say:

"This guy sitting back there criticizing...political criticism, getting paid by the...by the public taxpayer, and he's saying to us, uh, we're...we're...we're winning this war, and they're running -- we've gotta change direction; that's what we have to do. You can't...you can't sit there in the air-conditioned office and tell these troops that are carrying seventy pounds on their back inside these armored vessels and hit with IED's every day, seeing their friends blown up, their buddies blown up, and he says, "Stay the course"? Yeah, it's easy to say that from Washington, D.C."

He's right, saying things like "stay the course" is easy when your thousands of miles from real danger. This is the same logic that brought us the phrase "bring 'em on" from Dubya in a secure room at the White House. It's easy to put America's "ASS" on the line... as long as your own ass stays half a world away from exploding IED's and bullets.

I can't help but think that this war would have been approached differently had the President experienced even a few moments of staring down the barrel of a gun. Hey, maybe he should go duck hunting with Cheney someday?

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