I should feel honored, he responded to me directly.  Of course he grossly misquoted me.

I said that he was telling the troops to shut up and quit whining, whereas he quoted me as saying that to him.

Whatever.  the point of my article was that he maligned our troops with terms like mercenary, which he did.

And today he retracted that insult only to replace it with further insults:

The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out

Now if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black….

Well, one thing’s abundantly clear about who will actually defend our rights to say what we believe: It isn’t the hundreds who have written me saying they are soldiers or veterans or war supporters or real Americans — who also advise me to move to another country, to get f@##d, or to die a painful, violent death.

Contrary to the typically inaccurate and overstated assertion in dozens of blogs, hundreds of comments, and thousands of e-mails I’ve received, I’ve never written that soldiers should "shut up," quit whining, be spit upon, or that they have no right to an opinion.