Damn, Harry, just yesterday I complimented on what I thought was your newfound sobriety & lucidity. Now you've gone & blown it.
You want to strip FREEDOMS from the very people who VOLUNTEER to do the dirty work of protecting our FREEDOMS? These people in our military have a very difficult & stressful job. They are often times thousands of miles away from home with very limited contact with the outside world.
It's often weeks after the fact that they know the results of the World Series. They see people who just that morning were their best friends being hauled off screaming, bloody and having lost 30% of their weight because their legs are in a separate bag if they are recoverable at all.
Do you really think it's fair of some high and mighty righteous jerk sitting behind a computer monitor in the safety & comfort of their living room to deny a simple pleasure of a cigarette to the poor kid in a trench or bonbed out candy store or overnighting in a mountain pass snow cave?
BTW, it's 114 degrees in Baghdad, right now.
Those who would deny cigs to our troops are mean. I can't beleive a conservative would propose such crap.
Very well said. I wanted to respond, but you said it better than I could have. Thank you.