Yesterday, while I was driving someplace unimportant, I passed a big-assed billboard that was advertising an item that I truly wanted to purchase, but couldn’t figure out how. This mile high sign was advertising the most amazing product called “support our troops”. The very words emblazed over a giant American Flag shown graphically fluttering in a gentle breeze brought up some deep seated emotion and caused me to think, while on the phone with the republican, about how I could “support our troops”.

So I put my little hamster in its wheel, powering my thought processes and came up with a few ideas how I was going to help.

I plan to:

While I was thinking, the hamster wheel still spinning, I realized that the first time I noticed the whole concept of “support our troops” was when this war started being questioned openly. When the people of this land no longer believed the reasons we were told in the beginning. When people realized that there were:

This is when the slogan started appearing. This is when the opposing candidate started saying, I support our troops, because he was forced into proving that he did indeed care for their welfare.

It finally hit me that this slogan was not as much about supporting our troops, as about supporting the politician that sent them there in the first place. This slogan, and the millions of dollars of profiteering from the t-shirts, magnets, posters, billboards, hats, et. al., was truly about the re-election effort of George W. Bush. How can you criticize the president? To criticize the president is to criticize him sending us to war, and to criticize him sending us to war is to criticize the troops fighting that war, and to criticize the troops fighting that war is to criticize normal American people.

I’m not claiming to be whole heartedly correct, but it kinda makes sense. Doesn’t it? The best re-election poster I’ve ever seen and it didn’t even have to be reported to the FEC…