Sick sick sick. When the Republicans said they support the troops, I never knew they meant the imaginary ones. Though, as DKos reminds us , this isn’t the first time the Republicans used fake troops to bolster their image – in fact, John McCain’s mentor, George Bush, did it for his election 2004 as well.

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