[Jeff Higgins]

Grasping at straws, they are. Gotta love those lefties and their never-say-die attitude. One corporal, in one very editied comment, and the lefties get all giddy on us.

Many of us, including myself, have close personal friends over there. Some, like Joe, are there or have been there themselves. We have posted positive reports passed on to us, or in some cases, experienced first hand. These are sumarily dismissed by our friends on the left.

Impartial news sources have at times reported individual troop's positive impressions. They are not seen often, especially on the major networks or in the bigger magazines and newspapers, but they do pop up every now and then. These go completely ignored by the left as well. Meanwhile, illuminaries of the industry such as "See B.S." would "Rather" dig deep for the one disheartened serviceman or woman and flog their story to death. Notice, though, how few they really do find. You can bet your a$$ they're looking.

Better yet, let's find a grieving mother and fuel her need for attention by making her a celebrity. Let's ignore the presumably 2,999 other mothers that have lost sons or daughters that are suffering in silence. Their grief is just as real, but they don't have anything bad to say about the war or the administration, despite their loss. So let's ignore them, because they do not add to our negative impression that we would like to convey.

Instead, let's quote one corporal, out of context and edited to our liking, because he appears to say what we want to say. We know there are folks out there who will just lap this up without question. They will because it represents what they so very badly want to believe. Hell, we have them so well trained by now that they will even fill in the blanks for us, reading in all kinds of implications that are not there. Better to let their imaginations run wild than to give them the whole boring story and ruin the whole thing. Gee, this works pretty good. Just like so many trained little lap dogs. "Intellectual elite???" heh heh heh...