Supporting the Troops

Mike Huckabee is a jackass.

I probably could leave it at that, and most would nod in agreement and go about their lives, but I'll explain further.  Mike Huckabee is a jackass, this time, because of comments he made during a radio interview in regards to people joining the military.

During the interview, Huckabee made numerous comments; about how the President has ordered all Bibles hidden in the military, that military chaplains are prevented from praying to Jesus, and there's an overall hostility to Christians in the US military today.  Basically he made up a bunch of stuff that old, white voters want to believe about the President and ran with it.  He lied, Huckabee is liar, and I encourage him to take me to court and prove that Obama has ordered all the things he alleged.  If I'm wrong, he has me dead to rights, but I won't hold my breath for a court summons.

The overall insanely stupid argument Huckabee is making is that you shouldn't join the military until President Obama is out of office, as the current military is hostile to Christians.  Mike Huckabee believes a Conservative President would place Christian soldiers over all others, restoring the armed forces of the United States to some Christian standard he thinks is supposed to exist.  With that sentiment, Huckabee joins the dumbest of the dumb, a guy so tone deaf to anything but his own talking points, he doesn't hear the disrespect his comments have for the men and women who have fought for the Stars and Stripes.

Currently, the military has 61 "Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers."  Here is a link:  http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/emblems.asp  That's right, the US military recognizes 61 different headstone markings, not just the numerous Christian denominations, but Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, Hindu, Wiccan, Native American, Shinto, and even the Hammer of Thor, to name just a few options.

The military doesn't have these options just for show.  They have people buried in military cemeteries, people who fought in combat, who died protecting America and her interests, who fought for the Red, White and Blue, who were proud Americans, whose gravestones have these symbols on them.  The military is not a Christian fighting force, and anyone who even indirectly implies something so outrageous is disrespecting the honor and valor those military personnel earned, whether in combat or during peacetime.  To even suggest any non-Christian soldier is a lesser soldier, or less patriotic, is moronic.

Maybe Mike Huckabee wants to go into the military cemeteries of this country at night, under cover of darkness, with mallet and chisel in hand, and desecrate the graves of our military, in an attempt to remove the symbols he has deemed too blasphemous.  Maybe he'll grab a shovel and dig up the non-Christian military dead and chuck them over the cemetery wall.  In his world, you can only be Christian and proud of the military.  It's all or nothing.  Anyone who died serving our country but dared participate in the freedom of religion this country supposedly embraces, deciding to be a different religion, or not embrace a religion at all, is apparently not worthy of Mike Huckabee's respect.

In review, Mike Huckabee is a jackass.