[A little hope from Andrew Sullivan's mailbag :

] FROM A SOLDIER IN SPECIAL OPS: "Well ... And so it now
] begins. My more liberal friends told me a day like this
] would come, and now I am forced to eat crow. Words cannot
] express the hurt and anger I feel for the man's blatant
] constitutional and moral attack on a segment of our
] population. And for the still wobbly among us, make no
] mistake ... this is an attack... I realized long ago I am
] (was) a Republican solely for foreign affairs. But that's
] not good enough anymore. I've helped feed the Kurds in
] Northern Iraq, I've slept in the mud and rain to enforce
] peace treaties in eastern Europe, seated in 100 percent
] humidity in southeast Asia, and I dodged too many bullets
] and remote controlled bombs in and around Mosul to count.
] But I gladly did this (and will do it again) to protect
] the rights and liberties of ALL Americans, not just those
] of my family.
]
] I voted for this man ... despite what my family said,
] despite how many times I was smeared because I am African
] American and (was) a Republican, despite his joy in being
] an anti-intellectual ... they warned me, they warned me
] and I didn't listen ... and now I am ashamed of myself.
] By all that I hold Holy it will never happen again!"

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