Support the hostages

Tom Engelhardt writes at TomDispatch about how the troops in Iraq have effectively been taken hostage by Bush, who demands that the nation pay ransom for them continually, lest anyone be thought not to "support the troops." He ends his article with this quote from Paul Woodward: "There is something utterly self-serving about 'honoring' the 'sacrifice' made by soldiers who lost their lives or were maimed in a war that should never have been fought."