Consider the following excerpt from a post from Powerline's "Deacon" with a few minor word alternations:
[newspaper] reports that some American reservists, having just returned from fighting in Iraq, are demanding that President Bush resign because of his handling of the war. The reservists are complaining about insufficient provisions ... shortages of combat equipment, and indecisive orders.
Reservists constitute the core of the American armed forces and, as such, command the utmost respect of the society that depends on them for survival ... Bush's defense is that previous governments are to blame for not taking the Islamist threat seriously and preparing accordingly ... In any case, Bush cannot shift the blame for the indecisive start-again, stop-again approach he took once the shooting started.
So what did we change? The Israel-Olmert-Hezbollah references in the original post were changed to Iraq-Bush-Islamist references. So why is that for the right-wingers, protests by the Israeli military against the politicians who send them to war are legitimate and even welcome, while in the US case they are treasonous?
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