It’s barely 8:30 and I’ve already gotten a half dozen emails from self-described “country folk” who all say that what’s ticked them off about Abu Ghraib and Iraq is the non-stop apologizing and the unwillingness to crush the insurgents. Here’s one:

Jonah,
I reckon I qualify as country folk — at the school I teach at, cheerleaders belong to the FFA (Future Farmers of America). Bit brothers come to school on leave from the Marine Corps in their uniforms to eat lunch iwth little brothers and sisters.
$2 a gallon gas is rough. The immigration thing was not a good idea. But the apologizing thing on the prison has just set people off. You don’t put suspected terrorists in prison, you shoot them while they resist arrest. There was a week or so last winter when we were getting body counts — listing how many Iraqs got killed that week. The media had their panties in a wad over this, until they found out that reporting it pushed up Bush’s poll numbers, and they stopped.
At current casualty rates, by the year 2040, HALF as many US servicemen would have been killed in Iraq as died in Vietnam; as many World War II veterans will die between midnight and noon TODAY as there have been US servicemen killed in action in the past YEAR!

And here’s (part of) another:

the country folk are getting annoyed at Bush because they want to see MORE power, not less in the war. They want Fallujah flattened, they DON”T want diplomacy.
And if anyone thinks those ‘country folk’ … are going to NOT vote for President Bush if it looks close at all…they’re nuts.