Captain Steve's Wish List

If y'all haven't been reading Captain Steve's From The Sandbox at Kim du Toit's site, go there immediately and read this entry. This is what he wants from the American people:

• Let us return to a nation that respects the near-sacred duty of selecting its representatives, and doesn't sell its votes for others' property.
• Let it be a place where courts evaluate laws in light of the Constitution, instead of vice versa.
• When we return with the coffins of our friends, let it be to a land that knows about George Washington, and where teachers understand that a child's self esteem is proportional to his self-discipline.
• Let our homecoming be to a healthy republic, maintained, as Jefferson said, by a "virtuous, educated" populace.
• Let us come back to a government that does not deny the existence of the God its founders worshipped openly.
• Let us return to a nation that does not squander what we will have bought so dearly, that does not turn over what we have won with our blood to the United Nations and agents of hostile governments.
• Let us be honored not with parades and speeches, but with policies that reward those who helped us and punish those who made our mission more dangerous.
• Let us return to a nation whose State Department honors the principles we risk our lives for.
• Let us return to citizens who recognize that they are responsible for their own government.

Do you hear that Howard Dean, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton? Do you think you could just shut the fuck up, Bill Clinton?
How about you, Tom Daschle? And, Janeane Garofolo, when are you gonna "go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, hey, you were right, I shouldn’t have doubted you?" And Martin Sheen and Mike Farrell and the rest of you fucking socialists in Hollywood, when do you think you will quit blaming America for all the problems in the world? What do you assholes have to say about the Iraqis tearing down the statue of Saddam Hussein and welcoming the American troops?

Thanks Captain Steve. Us real Americans in flyover country are behind you 100%. As I watched the Iraqis tear down the statue of Saddam Hussein, I was proud to be an American. And I am extra proud of Americans like you, PFC Lynch, Air Force Captain Kim Campbell, and all the other grunts, squids, jarheads, and airedales who have made this war an historic success. Bless you all!

Posted by denny at April 12, 2003 12:28 PM