Saving Private Ryan

[Citizen James]

I found the intro especially interesting.  They had a vet who was wounded six times in 36 hours introduce the movie, along with Senator McCain - stating that it was important to understand realisticly what our combat veterains went through.

I thought about how the modern republican party would react to this.  Wounded several times in 36 hours?  Who cares, I've been injured worse mowing the lawn or somesuch.  At one time the Republican party stood for something - It respected the sacrifice of our troops, and held strongly to the high ideals for which they fought: Freedom, liberty, the whole ball of wax.

Now the modern republican party gives little more than lip service to the sacrifice of soldiers, modern and past.  They gladly take credit for the sacrifice of others, but consider spending tons of money on a SDI system which has no purpose other than as corporate slush, while neglecting body armor for our troops.  The old republican party is dead, replaced by it's most extreme and pathetic elements - Greedy jackals who profit from war and suffering, and hypocritical almost taliban like religious zealots who commit massive hypocracy in the name of Jesus.  There are still a few real republicans left,  but they no longer hold much sway over the party barring a bit of lip service here and there.

I morn the loss of the real GOP.   Truth is, these days the Libertarinans are far closer to traditional Republican ideals than the folks now in control of the party.