Chickenhawks, Casey Sheehan, Patton and File Closer

There is a common type of Leftist cretin that uses the chickenhawk argument as if that were either intellectually coherent or emotionally compelling. Well, it’s neither one or the other..

But here it is again in a comment by someone who goes by the name of “Patton” on the Protein Wisdom blog site:

Hey cowards-
Casey Sheehan was a man. You are pussies.
Put up or shut up.
1-800-GO-ARMY
Posted by Patton

And here is the response by one gentleman who goes by the name of “file closer”:

Actually, “Patton,” I decided to simply walk into the recruiter’s office, rather than call the number. This was back in 2003, after having served previously and gotten out in 2000. I was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division, and later deployed to Iraq. Irony of ironies, Casey Sheehan’s battery (C 1/82) was attached to my battalion. The day he died fighting (4 April 2004), I and my men were in the same boat he was, rolling into the city, surrounded by hostiles. We watched a lot of our guys get hit, but we killed a lot more of them (on the order of 100-200 for every one they got of ours). We were outnumbered, in a strange place (we’d only been there a week), and tasting battle for the first time...yet we still prevailed. Sadly, Casey and six other great Americans didn’t make it back that day.
The other six were: SGT Eddie Chen, SPC Israel Garza, CPL Forest Jostes, SPC Stephen Hiller, SPC Robert Arsiaga, and SPC Ahmed Cason.
One of the hardest hit units was C Battery, 1/82 Field Artilley, Casey’s unit. They were ill-equipped and relatively undertrained for close fighting. No one ordered them to go out into Sadr City. They did anyway, including Casey, because they had comrades that needed help.
His mother’s antics are regrettable and unproductive. That’s all I’ll say about her, but I’m not quite done yet.
“Patton,” you call the other commenters in here “cowards” for not joining. Hmm, how civilian of you. I’ve never met any currently serving military man who feels that way. We soldiers do our jobs, do them damn well, and do them willingly. We appreciate when someone supports our efforts, even if it’s just a blog comment here and there. Who in hell are you to come in here and fling your “chickenhawk” bullshit around?
Unless you are the re-animated corpse of General Patton himself, you can take your accusations of cowardice and shove them deeply into your own ass. I’ve killed better men than you. Literally. Now go fuck yourself.

I wish I had said that.