A note from Lance Corporal Jeff Key

John my John,
Here's a comment I posted on Huffington in response to General Pace. Use it any way you'd like.
Love, Jeff

I am an Iraq War vet. This morning, for the first time in a long time, I felt a surge (sorry to use that word) of hope! When it has seemed for so long that no one in any kind of position of power in our government had any lingering attachments to reality, Marine General Peter Pace reaffirmed at least a little of my confidence in our leaders. General Pace is the first Marine to hold the position of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff so as a marine, I have always felt proud of our first Marine to hold this position. Yesterday he said, "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way." I sat at my computer alone and let out a loud "Oorah!" Finally we can end this insanity and bring the troops home from Iraq, start taking care of them like they deserve and begin trying to make reparations to Iraqis AND convict the criminals that made this mess! Yes Sir, I was just about jumping for joy... a betrayed patriot relieved...the eternal optimist validated...UNTIL I realized that he was not talking about a corporately motivated war of aggression based completely on lies where we have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in a country that posed no immanent threat to our nation thereby making our nation infinitely more hated than we ever were and exponentially less safe...he was talking about gay people. Glad we've got our priorities straight...did I say straight?


Former Lance Corporal Jeff Key
Iraq War Vet, USMC