SOMETHING FOR LAURA INGRAHAM, THE WAR WHORE

Earlier this week, one caller (a soldier, I believe) to War Whore's radio show said that the veterans who were protesting the Iraq War weren't "real soldiers" and that usually people like that are discharged because they have psychological problems. The War Whore accepted that without any reservations.

This is what I'm going to send to her:

Fallen trooper didn't believe in war
Dreamed of military glory as kid growing up on D-M air base
By Carol Ann Alaimo
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 03.21.2007

As a kid growing up on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Christopher Brevard dreamed of military glory. As an adult, he spent the last months of his life fighting a war he didn't believe in.

In e-mails to his family, the Army paratrooper, a father of two who considered himself a patriot, talked about what he saw as the futility of military operations in Iraq. He worried about the chronic exhaustion of the soldiers he led and felt U.S. troops were dying overseas for no good reason.

"He said, 'Mom, I would lay my life down in a heartbeat fighting for America. But if I lose my life over here, I will not feel like I died for my country," said the soldier's mother, Michele Brevard, 51.

The sergeant first class was killed in action on March 16...

Her son's messages from the front lines often were wrenching, Michele Brevard said.
He was distressed, she said, that the soldiers in his platoon were severely sleep-deprived, often going for 10 days at a time with no more than a two-hour nap here and there. And he was outraged at the attitudes of the Iraqis he met.
For example, the Iraqi police, who are supposed to be preparing to take over the country's security, sometimes flat-out refused to perform their duties, her son wrote.

"They told our guys, 'Why don't you (expletive) go home," she quoted her son as saying.

"He said, 'Our guys are dying over there, and those people don't even care,' " Michele Brevard said.