From my good friend and fine cartoonist John Pierce. Funny, the conservative newspapers can’t seem to find liberal cartoonists, but I can.
Isn’t that strange?
And a nice commentary via Bartcop:
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“Rummy can quit in the middle of a war with no repercussions, but the men and women who are actually out there getting shot at can’t. If they did, they’d be sent to a military prison. I hope he never has a good night of sleep for the rest of his life.” — Steve, as seen on foxnews.com
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Even worse, if they see it through to the end and finish their assignment, the system does not always work for them. Or if they are disabled, they may lose a life’s worth of work but be barely compensated for that. This is is barbarity, madness.
It’s amazing; personally I am a pacifist and I feel very uncomfortable about thw whole military force thing. Many of the people who are attracted by the military make me feel a little uneasy. But if we are to survive as a civil society we must have and enforce a fair social contract; and this is just one of the many areas where the Republicans have failed miserably with that idea.