Make sure that you scroll down and look at the photos of all the other phony soldiers too. The reason for Rush’s deferment puts it into even better context.
Who are “they”? Well, high-level Pentagon officials, who are imposing fundamentalist Christianity on our soldiers. The following excerpt is from a report by Truthout.org:
On the heels of a scathing report issued by the Defense Department’s inspector general that took high-level Pentagon officials to task for allowing an evangelical Christian organization unfettered access to the Department of [...]
The imperative phrase is proclaimed on millions of bumper stickers: “Support the Troops.”
Tell me what it means to “support the troops” and then I’ll tell you whether I support the troops. Fair enough? Until you can tell me what the phrase means, asking me whether I “support the troops” is like asking me to sign [...]
