I guess we can drop the whole “we support the troops, not the war” bullshit.

In Washington, counterprotesters also converged on the mall in smaller numbers, but the antiwar demonstration was largely peaceful.

There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration’s policies in Iraq.

Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.

Capitol police made the antiwar protestors walk farther away from the counterprotesters.

“These are not Americans as far as I’m concerned,” Mr. Sparling said.

Look, I’m no happier with the war than anyone else. Frankly, I think it’s become a mismanaged mess combined with a stubbornness contest run by a man who once thought staying the course meant never changing and who later came on and said the plan was never to stay the course.

A mess. A disaster. A mismanaged clusterf**k.

That being said, I still don’t think anyone mislead the country and I certainly don’t think anyone was “fooled, tricked, or lied to.” I think we were wrong. Plain and simple. I also think that because the President has tried so hard to fight a soft mushy nicey nice war (shock and awe my ass), he didn’t get the job done when it could’ve been months ago. He didn’t go in strong enough to the areas where people like Muqtada al Sadar were running the show and take people like him out.

Bad move.

He also didn’t pressure his generals or the Iraqi government to get their people to take control quicker. It almost seems that if we leave at any point, that country will fall into even worse chaos than it’s in now.

All that taken as a package, I still don’t blame our troops for it. Spitting at our troops and calling them babykillers, etc., does nothing to solve the problem that exists in Iraq or the question of how we can, at some point somewhere, make a strategic exit (you have to leave at some point unless you plan on making Iraq the 51st state, folks; be realistic).

Frankly, spitting on the troops is more of a gesture of F*** You and disrespect than anything else.

You wanna debate policy? Let’s! Please! Let’s have this discussion you guys are so anxious to have. I’d love to have people come up with real solutions to the problem we face in Iraq. I’d welcome a dose of thought rather than a cup of rhetoric from both sides.

Spitting is not a discussion, and the people doing it to our returning troops (particularly those who lost a limb) are not worth talking to to begin with because, quite frankly, I don’t think a debate is what they want.

Stop chanting “Bring our troops home!” if this is what you’re going to do to them when they get here.

Story quoted from Wizbang and my favorite conservative writer, Kim Priestap

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