I’ve listened to a lot of political speeches in my life, but Zell Miller’s embarrassment tonight at the Republican National Convention was by far the most disturbing. I’m not even sure what to say.

    <p>Zell Miller is a angry, bitter man.  Violence, it would seem, is his favorite subject.  He is racist, imperialist, insensitive, and pig-headed.  He's everything I hate in the GOP.</p>
    <p>And he's a Democrat.</p>
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today’s Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.

And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

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Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.

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No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn’t believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.

That’s really quite an incredible position. Is there any situation in which American soldiers could be considered occupiers? Is it unfair for our citizenry to question whether we have crossed that threshold? Is more admirable to blindly “support our troops” as they go on killing? In Miller’s world, apparently.

The London News Review posted an angry response to Miller’s speech tonight and it is worth a read.

If there is a hell, and most likely Zell Miller believes in such a thing, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller is going to burn in it. Spin hotly on a giant griddle. For something close to eternity.

Oh yes, siree. He is going to burn in hell.

If hell exists; which one can only hope that it does, because if God exists then he’s no kind of God unless he creates a hell for Democrat Senator Zell Miller to burn in. In fact, even if the universe exists without a God, as many would contend, then it may still be within the inarticulate power of this vast mass of galaxies, nebulae and planets to create - within itself - a dark and steaming corner of itself where Mr. Zell Miller can dwell, for eternity, in unspeakable pain. We can call it hell or we can call it Georgia. Just so long as Senator Zell Miller suffers in it.

After listening to his speech tonight, that’s exactly how I feel.

But really… is that fate any different than the one that Miller and his militarists wish on the rest of the world?

If you had to think about that, something very wrong is going on.