re: #148 Killgore Trout

Kos: Proud of “Screw Them”
Many things have changed, others remain the same. He’s free to have his own opinion and I’m free to find it reprehensible.

“My language was harsh, and, in reality, not true. Fact is, I did feel something. That’s why I was so angry. I was angry that five soldiers—the real heroes in my mind—were killed the same day and got far lower billing in the newscasts. I was angry that 51 American soldiers paid the ultimate price for Bush’s folly in Iraq in March alone. I was angry that these mercenaries make more in a day than our brave men and women in uniform make in an entire month. I was angry that the US is funding private armies, paying them $30,000 per soldier, per month, while the Bush administration tries to cut our soldiers’ hazard pay. I was angry that these mercenaries would leave their wives and children behind to enter a war zone on their own violition [sic]. So I struck back.” — Markos