| Impetient, there is a differnce between a government OFFICIAL and a representative. Furthermore, there's a difference between a POLICY DIFFERENCE, and equating our war on terror to a "WAR AGAINST SATAN".
He's in the military, he's held to a higher standard. He's in chrage of intelligence and is telling these people not about the policy, but about his religious views, in a position that shows him as the government. Not as the people's representative.
The point is when they lie, I'll get mad about it, either side of the aisle. This isn't lying, this is racism from a government offical. Where do I draw the line? Not all military, military in the position of not only leadership but policy influence, in fact I'd say the line is the same for most people. If you're going to shoot your mouth off in a way that he did you should be reprimanded.
Had he said the war was great, we were making advances quashing islamists extremsists, that'd be a different story, he directly linked our military policy to a crusade. |