A few years ago, I overheard a demonstrator at a Washington, DC rally remark to his associates that saying one is "pro-troops but anti-war is like saying one is anti-rape but pro-rapist." It's not shocking to hear such utterances at a gathering of droolers who view a sandwich-board as an essential article of clothing. It is shocking to read them in the pages of America's 4th most-widely read newspaper. Joel Stein concedes that he doesn't support America's troops. "An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient," VH1 celebrity-show commentator and Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein writes, "but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying." "I object!" "Couldn't we just settle this with a soccer game instead?" "Let's debate this." "Sir, the men voted on your order, and a majority just don't think it's safe to go into battle today." That's Joel Stein's army. I don't support the troops in Joel Stein's army. We're even.

What more is there to say but that Joel Stein is an idiot?

Here's the bio-blurb about Joel Stein, a columnist featured on Time Magazine's Online Edition:

"Joel Stein pens a regular humor column that runs in the magazine's Notebook section. His self-focused pieces have examined everything from shaving body hair and disliking dogs to his mother's remarriage and the SAT test."

Never heard of him before today. Now I know why.

Joel Stein. Isn't that a Jewish name? Maybe we could send him over to Palestine to negotiate with Hamas. And no troops - can't have that.

This is a letter I wrote to Joel Stein: "Thank you Joel Stein for your excellent article on January 24th, "Warriors and Wusses". I have thought that way since the Iraq debacle began. I do not support the war, therefore I cannot support the troops. It's sort of like that old saying from the late 60's and early 70"s: What if they gave a war and nobody came?''. Try not to get down about being called a traitor, it's those that do not believe in our right to "petition the government for a redress of griviences" that are unpatriotic. They don't believe what the U.S. Constitution says. I feel sorry for the men and women that had to make the choice to fight an unjust war or face the consequences of refusal, but I cannot support their immoral decision to fight a war of aggression." DOD stands for Department of Defense. Liberals are all for defense of our country, but we are not defending against anything in Iraq.

Liberals are all for defense of our country

Well, you didn't have to lie like that. Or was that meant as a joke? Liberals for defense? Hahahaha! OK, now I get it.

Who gives a crap what Joel Stein has to say?