Great moments in wingnut pretzel logic about Walter Reed on the Guardian talkboard

[Ken Burch]

I just thought everybody should see this. If anybody thought our right-wingers still possessed shame, this pretty much blows that duck out of the water.

The guy likens the conditions for wounded vets to what everybody would face if the U.S. ever had universal health care, and says that universal health care activists are essentially hypocrites for complaining about the Walter Reed crisis:

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?[e-mail]0rbBcQoXs.12@.775e7bc8/7

this is from a talkboard in the UK, but I'm pretty sure the thread originator is American.

[Parche]

1. Universal Health care

Would be scary if done by the Republicans....................

Europe and Canada have it and it is great I have heard!!

[Ken Burch]

2. The Republican version of "Universal Health Care" would be

"Anybody who's sick has to go hunting with Cheney".

Those that survived would, on the average, be healthier, since they were agile and alert enough to dodge the shotgun rounds, and the overall U.S. genetic picture would thereby be improved, reducing health care costs and boosting the economy(at least that part of the economy tied to gun factories and funeral homes)in the process.