A couple of years back, our nation's Leftists tried to gin up a controversy regarding Rush Limbaugh when he used the phrase "phony soldiers" to describe individuals who claimed to be veterans but never served a day in uniform. These same folks have tried to turn Rush Limbaugh's policy disagreements with Barack Obama into treason against the United States. How about if these same liberals stand up and condemn one of their own icons for a direct attack against members of our military in the field?

If you think you misunderstood the words of this so-called humorist, here they are in black and white for you.

Forget about bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me why, in 2009, we still have more than 50,000 troops in Germany and 30,000 in Japan? At some point, these people are going to have to learn to rape themselves.

Got that, American patriots? Bill Maher, on national television, has called our American troop rapists. Are you prepared to speak out against him? Are you prepared to turn off his show and contact his advertisers?

But then again, maybe our "support the troops" liberals will show the same level of outrage they have in the past when folks like John Kerry, Dick Durbin, and John Murtha have called the troops stupid, Nazis, and murderers -- they then defended those attackers of our servicemen and women, calling them patriots and rewarding them with their votes. Yep, that is sure some way to show support for those who defend our way of life!

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For a guy who said he wants to honor the service of our veterans, this policy proposal from the VA sounds an awful lot like abandoning them

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

IÂ’m left nearly speechless by this news. Not even Bill Clinton, who loathed the military, would have ever dreamed of making vets pay for treatment of service-connected injuries and disabilities. Even if one were to suggest that veterans generally are owed nothing by the nation after their term of service is over, no individual with even a shred of human decency could argue that those vets with injuries, illnesses and disabilities attributable to their military service are not entitled to the care of a grateful nation.

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Here’s a case where I side against my fellow conservatives and with Obama and his supporters – DADT is simply a bad policy.

On Monday, buoyed by a stronger Democratic majority in Congress, Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.) will introduce legislation to overturn the ban against homosexuals serving openly in the military, a Tauscher aide said.

ClintonÂ’s handling of the issue was widely condemned, and the entire fiasco became a textbook example of the sort of avoid-at-all-cost political controversy that can seriously undermine a new president. For Clinton, it knocked him off message, sapped him of auathority, damaged his popularity ratings and left him with a reputation for being wishy-washy that stuck.

And it left the military with a policy that no one really likes — the “don’t ask, don’t tell” regulation that allows gays to serve in the military, as long as they don’t flout their homosexuality.

LetÂ’s consider the reality at work here. The current policy is idiotic and unworkable. It requires an element of dishonesty from those in the system (both gay servicemembers and their superiors) while doing nothing to enhance our nationÂ’s security. Indeed, it at times requires that the military purge itself of skilled personnel of unquestioned competence and patriotism over an issue that need not impact military readiness or efficiency. Moreover, the general level of acceptance of homosexuals in society (not approval of homosexuality, but the acceptance of individual homosexuals) has reached a level that orientation ought not be a serious issue.

H/T Gay Patriot

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