FOX "News" Hates the Troops

By Baxter

We cats enjoy the Canadian War Museum. It has a permanent exhibit devoted to peacekeeping — the country's primary military effort since the Second World War. There's no Vietnam, no Iraq. It's refreshing. (It's also nice that they allow cats in.)

Of course, there's one permanent exhibit that they'll eventually have to add: Afghanistan. That's because Canada has been fighting there, with little thanks or recognition from us, since 2001.

Today, though, Canada is a restless and conflicted about that commitment. The good news? President Obama's newly announced goals in Afghanistan mesh well with Canadian sentiment — to get the hell out, but not until 2011.

The bad news? Americans have managed to insult Canada and its Afghan war contributions once again. Specifically, an American nonentity named Greg Gutfield, who has a wee-small-hours-of-the-morning show called "Red Eye" on FOX "News." In a recent broadcast, Gutfield mocked Canada's desired 2011 pullout; in response, one of his panelists said, "I didn't even know they were in the war. I thought that's where you go when you don't want to fight. Go chill in Canada."

We cats are amazed, even after eight years of George W. Bush, that we still have the capacity to shock. But these remarks shocked us. We thought all right wingers — particularly those on FOX — considered war, and the people who wage it, sacrosanct. But perhaps we should have anticipated this. After all, Bush took his eye off Afghanistan and invaded Iraq to avenge his daddy's failure. Why not, therefore, diss Canada, even though it's lost proportionately more soldiers there than any other ally?

Disgusting. We HISS and GROWL at these FOX idiots. And when the Canadian War Museum finally opens its permanent Afghanistan exhibit, we hope they devote a room to miscreants and assholes. They could call it the Greg Gutfield Exposition Hall.