I followed the link in M.J. Rosenberg's blog post Chickenhawk Bill Kristol Says Antiwar People Even Bereaved Moms Are Against the Troops," and I was livid. I'm so offended by Billy Boy's neocon propaganda that I had to respond. Beware: this post contains a LOT of profanity -- all mine.

Kristol writes:

Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, emerged on the American political scene two years ago. Distraught and unstable, she was shamelessly exploited by opponents of George W. Bush and the war while such exploitation seemed to pay political benefits. When she became an embarrassment, she, like others before her, was tossed onto the trash heap of history by her progressive minders.

Don’t forget, Billy Boy, she was also vilified by Bush supporters like YOU for political purposes, too. But I guess all's fair in love and war. Right? Especially when you have I LOVE THE RIGHT tattooed on your ass. Tell me, Billy, when you travel, do you have to make three right turns before you can start going in the other direction so you won't have to make a LEFT turn?

Sheehan was useful to the antiwar left in a particular way. As Jonathan Cohn put it in the September 12, 2005, New Republic, "Sheehan's value isn't as a barometer of public opinion or as a source of foreign policy wisdom. It's as proof of one very simple point: that a person can criticize the war and still support the troops."It's unclear that Sheehan was particularly interested in "supporting the troops"--unless one means by that lamenting the fate of the troops as victims. The fact that relatively few soldiers see themselves as victims, the fact that few families understand their loved ones' service and sacrifices in that light--that didn't matter.

As member of the aforenamed families who has a loved one serving in Iraq, you don’t know what the f**k your talking about, Billy Boy. You need to get out of your tight-ass circle of neocon cronies and get your SpongeBob body over to Iraq and spend some “quality time” with our guys and gals with boots on the ground – mono y mono. Have you attended any military funerals lately? I doubt it, too damn depressing, huh? Do those two things, then I'll start listening to you SPEAK for the troops and their families without thinking you're full of crap.

With the ongoing progress of the surge, and the obvious fact that the vast majority of the troops want to fight and win the war, the "support-the-troops-but-oppose-what-they're-doing" position has become increasingly untenable. How can you say with a straight face that you support the troops while advancing legislation that would undercut their mission and strengthen their enemies?

Again, you’re NOT LISTENING, Billy Boy. Our troops love serving their country, are proud to be fighting – and dying – for a noble cause. But they don’t want to sacrifice their lives, nor their futures with their families, to fight an ENDLESS WAR that YOUR PRESIDENT got them into by lying to EVERYONE. Nor are they willing to serve 15-month tours over and over and over again so that your weak-kneed progeny, who don’t have the stomach to VOLUNTEER to fight alongside them or in their place, can sit home watching TV, partying, going to college, banging their girlfriends, and dreaming up new schemes for taking other people's money.

The troops want you and your own to get off your fat asses and give them a f**king BREAK. But, nooooooooo, you just click your heels and say “sieg heil” to your fuehrer George Bush and say, “Keep on fighting, troops! We support you.”

... those on the cutting edge of progressive opinion are beginning to give up on even pretending to support the troops. Instead, they now slander the troops. Two progressive magazines have taken complementary approaches in this effort. In its July 30 issue, the Nation has a 24-page article based on interviews with 50 Iraq veterans. The piece allegedly reveals "disturbing patterns of behavior by American troops in Iraq"--indeed, it claims that the war has "led many troops to declare an open war on all Iraqis." Needless to say, the anecdotal evidence in the article comes nowhere close to supporting this claim. There are a few instances of out-of-control behavior, some routine fog-of-war and brutality-of-war incidents, and much that is simply trivial. The picture is unpleasant, as one would expect--but it comes nowhere close to living up to the authors' billing: "The war the vets described is a dark and even depraved enterprise."

So, let me see if I have this right? A few instances of out-of-control behavior, like killing a taxi cab driver, because you’re afraid his car might be carrying bombs that could blow up you or six more of your friends like the day before, is OK? And some routine fog-of-war and brutality-of-war incidents, like accidently blowing up women and children who are about the same age as your kids back home is TRIVIAL?!

OK, Billy Boy, I challenge you to go rent every GRAPHIC (as in blood and guts graphic) war movie and spend the next 15 months watching them 24/7. See how that starts affecting your outlook on the world. Then you just might have some clue as to how trivial the not-so-nice-things about war are to the mental health of our loved ones for whom war is f**king REAL.

May we send you the bills for the psychiatric counseling our children might need to keep from going postal or committing suicide after they get home? Think of it as just another way you can show your support for the troops for fighting YOUR war.

Having turned against a war that some of them supported, the left is now turning against the troops they claim still to support. They sense that history is progressing away from them--that these soldiers, fighting courageously in a just cause, could still win the war, that they are proud of their service, and that they will be future leaders of this country. They are not "Shock Troops." They are our best and bravest, fighting for all of us against a brutal enemy in a difficult and frustrating war. They are the 9/11 generation. The left slanders them. We support them. More than that, we admire them.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, Billy Boy, if you and your neocon buddies admire them so much, how come your loved ones aren’t lining up at the recruiter’s office BEGGING to be so admired? Better yet, let's see your beaming mug out front signing up fresh recruits at the next Young Republicans convention, instead of wasting all your machismo beating up those whimpy liberal Democrats.

Now THAT would be supporting the troops who have aready DONE THEIR DUTY!

Here's another -- less emotional -- perspective on Billy and Friends.