Writing in the Sunday Review section of The New York Times, U.S. military veteran Roy Scranton admitted that he’s come realize that his time in Iraq with his fellow servicemen and women had morphed him into“the faceless storm trooper” while “the scrappy rebels were the Iraqis.”
While no one will ever question Scranton’s service to his country,
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Why will no one ever question Scranton’s service to his country? I don’t know enough about Scranton to make that judgment. Afford me the opportunity to examine someone’s record and then I can form an opinion. I hope Newsbusters is not mouthing that old “rule of thumb” that no soldier’s service can ever be questioned. That kind of kneejerk crap is mind-numbingly banal. Of course I can question Private Manning’s service. Of course I can question Bergdahl’s service. -bfh Rant off/
the fact that anyone would compare American soldiers to storm troopers fighting under the guise of Darth Vader and the Emperor (which George Lucas compared to the Bush administration) against Islamic terrorists being the Rebel Alliance would cause any reasonable person to scratch their head.
Scranton began his piece by recalling an Independence Day spent in Baghdad that included a showing of the original Star Wars trilogy. He noted that while there was plenty of action on-screen, it “couldn’t compete with the light show playing out across Baghdad, and watching a film about the warriors of an ancient religion rising up from the desert to fight a faceless empire seemed, under the circumstances, perverse.”
At this point, his far-left, apologist analogy kicked into high gear as he lamented that Operation Iraqi Freedom was the holding of Baghdad “under an increasingly senseless occupation” amidst memorials to those “who had died in the Iran-Iraq War.”
Sounds to me like he was a liberal who joined up just to get the bennies and street cred, and now that he has the cushy job, he can show his true self, (traitor) and hide behind the country’s love of service members.
You mean we can’t question John Kerry’s service?! The guy only does a 4 month stretch, has himself filmed while there, gets extremely suspicious injuries, incurs the destain of everyone he comes in contact with and becomes a hero to the communist left by fabricating stories of evil America when he returns.
I question his service. His description of the Scrappy Fighters vs the Empire doesn’t fit the way the daily grind played out.
I personally have not met one single veteran of the Big Sandbox that wasn’t 100% behind the mission and Ultra Patriot. And none of them trust or like Muzzies.
Watch for Roy Scranton to testify before Congress, throw his medals in the Delaware, and run for office
What Irony Curtain said is enough for me.
What is this asshole’s name?
Hand Solo ?
That’s not an analogy. george lucass admitted that himself. He said he based Star Wars on Vietnam and The Empire is the United States.
P.S. Don’t wish a Veteran Happy Fourth of July. They will tell you it’s Independence Day fucker. I hope DJT is elected if for no other reason than to save the military Barry is trying so hard to destroy.
More accurate:
Washington DC is the Empire.
The Washington bureaucracy (IRS, EPA, FBI, NSA) are the Storm Troopers.
Where is the Death Star? Why haven’t we used the Death Star?
Can any of these lefty knuckleheads tell me the last time storm troopers ever liberated anything? Americans are at best reluctant warriors but when push comes to shove we will do our best to win. And win we will if the damned fools just let us alone to beat our enemies. We should’ve won both Korea and Vietnam but we were hamstrung by these pinheads who don’t believe that we should win anything anymore. And for the record myself and all my fellow veterans are not storm troopers!
Wouldn’t that make the MSM the “Hutts”