meeting tonight...

I had a SD41 GOP meeting that I went to tonight. The speaker tonight was Brigadier General (Ret.) Dennis W. Schulstad who has met in person Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and George W. Bush. Very cool guy. He opened it up to Q&A after his talk and I asked him, "what do you say to those people who have the bumper sticker that says 'it will be a great day in this country when education has all the money that they need and the military has to hold a bake sale to raise funds'?" I think he was surprised by the question but quickly recovered, his response at first was very surprising. He said, "I would love the $500 billion spent every year on the military to be spent on education, but we need the military, it's kind of like life insurance. You have it but you hope you never have to use it. It's an insurance policy that the citizens of this country pays for but hopes we never have to use." WOW! what an amazing response, I'd like to see an anti-military liberal respond to that (I am aware that anti-military and liberal are damn near one in the same). The only problem I had with him was that he said it was great that people support the troops but don't support the war in Iraq. I think it's impossible to support the troops when you don't support their mission and bash them at every possible chance you have; especially when they say bring them home, just admit it people you hate the military. You know the ones that protect your freedom of speech, the ones you bash for not following "international law", the ones who put their lives on the line every day so we don't have to have a draft. For all the gripes you have about the military you should realize how lucky you are to live in this country. If you are embaressed to live in this country thats fine, THEN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND GO TO CANADA OR EUROPE. Take your socialist asses somewhere else, you don't deserve to be protected by these great Americans.