Supporting the Troops

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Supporting the Troops
As I mentioned in my photoblog the other day, Dick Cheney accused the Democrat-led House of Representatives of not supporting the troops.
Dick Cheney said, "They're not supporting the troops. They're undermining them."
His statement came after the House voted a spending bill that said the troops must come home by late of next year if certain requirements were not achieved by the Iraqi government. Here is the link: Link
Is the Democrat-led House not supporting the troops if they vote for them to withdrawal from Iraq?

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doesn't matter, get them out
- 3/25/2007 1:40 PM
- esfdyx (message)
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Ha,no. That's ludicrous to say.
- 3/25/2007 1:41 PM
- CrushTheseClasses (message)
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almost first=P
- 3/25/2007 1:41 PM
- CrushTheseClasses (message)
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Dick Cheney is my homeboy
- 3/25/2007 1:42 PM
- ericvandermolen (message)
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I don't think this administration has done such a great job of supporting the troops. Bringing them home would be supporting the troops - diminishing their numbers by keeping them stuck in a quagmire of a civil war is what I would call NOT supportive of the troops.
- 3/25/2007 1:42 PM
- WomanOfLight (message)
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They're supporting them by keeping them alive. Dick should realize by now that nothing is really happening...
The US isn't sending troops anymore, they're sending bodies.
It's sad though, that this war is still going on..
- 3/25/2007 1:44 PM
- metta_karuna (message)
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People are volunteering for Iraq, so why are the Democrats in such a hurry to pull them out?
- 3/25/2007 1:44 PM
- Eternity213 (message)
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as I said on the photoblog, I think that is the most support you could possibly give them. to tell them, OK enough; we give in, you guys can come home. to your families, to your lives again, to civilization as you know it and not have to worry when you bed down, anymore, if you'll make it through the night. and not look at your buddy and wonder how many more days you have together.
- 3/25/2007 1:45 PM
- RaVnR (message)
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Dicks never want to pull out early.
- 3/25/2007 1:45 PM
- AristotleForDummies (message)
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But we all know MrKikestein makes the best comments.
- 3/25/2007 1:46 PM
- aLi__cat (message)
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I think that wanting the troops to come home is different than supporting the troops.
I think you can support or not support a mission, yet always support the troops.
- 3/25/2007 1:47 PM
- Nutkin (message)
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and we all know we agree with aLi__cat!
- 3/25/2007 1:47 PM
- porcupinesol (message)
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If we don't meet certain goals then yes they should come home...why stay in a losing situation...spending money like it was water...then denying them rightful benifets when they do come home...why...have a good one...Smile
- 3/25/2007 1:48 PM
- m_elmer_48 (message)
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I agree with most of what was said above... Just bring them home and stop all this.
- 3/25/2007 1:49 PM
- fat_red_chicken (message)
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ugh.. no i think they're absolutely supporting the troops if they bring them home.

dick cheney is scary and makes babies cry.

Fight Mental Illness stigma
- 3/25/2007 1:50 PM
- MetallMaus (message)
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oh geez!
- 3/25/2007 1:50 PM
- LOMLs_Snowflake_Loving_Wife (message)
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Wanting the troops to come home early doesn't mean that one doesn't support the troops. There has to be an end to the occupation at some point.
- 3/25/2007 1:52 PM
- asad123 (message)
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IT's supporting the troops, because alot of the troops don't want to be there and die.

They shouldn't have been sent there in the first place!

Just because Bush knew a mistake in going to war (and over time more and more people realized it, myself being one of the ones against it from the start!)

doesn't mean we should CONTINUE making a mistake by saying it's too late to do anything different.
- 3/25/2007 1:52 PM
- TransexualTwat (message)
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The democrats have rarely supported the troops over the last few decades:

Jimmy Carter drastically cut funding for the armed forces

Clinton had the most deployed military since WW 2 with all of his peace keeping missions and failed to keep them supplied with new weaponry.

democrats in congress are constantly trying to cut the size of the military and keep them from getting new equipment.

The morale of the troops in Iraq is actually doing very well according to first hand reports that I have heard and based on reports from entertainers who have gone over to cheer up the troops.

The military is finally being able to use what they have been training for.

I wish people who are critical of this administrations decision to start this war would look at facts surrounding the decision to go to war and what Clinton actually had the military doing (sitting in foreign countries getting shot at not being allowed to shoot back in the name of peace).

Bush's problem is that he is not a democrat so in the media's eyes he cannot do anything right.
- 3/25/2007 1:55 PM
- mrcolorful (message)
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the house has no right to micrmanage the war.
- 3/25/2007 1:56 PM
- droptop11 (message)
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Cheney's the Antichrist. The best support for our troops is to bring 'em home. Any fool knows that.
- 3/25/2007 1:56 PM
- Eccentrique (message)
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they're supporting their life. yeesh. Cheney's an idiot.
- 3/25/2007 1:59 PM
- papercup_alibi (message)
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I think that it ridiculous... people care for the troops lifes, and i think that is supporting them. Its not even about the justice of the war, being started or not.. now it is about troops being killed for what is a civil war. Its like if French people came into America during the civil war and tried to stop the violence of the north and the south - people would be like: "Why are the French here?" lol, that might seme like a lame example but thats all i could think of for now

Daniel (doubledb)
- 3/25/2007 1:59 PM
- Doubledb (message)
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Someone better relate this to the previous post on women's condoms.
- 3/25/2007 2:04 PM
- MrKikestein (message)
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The semantics and splitting of hairs, hyper-analysis of paragraphs or even just lines of words...

Dick Cheney's response is an empty speech to an empty gesture. The Dems voted along WITH the republicans to start this war.

They claim they were misled. They are full of shit, they were just following the leader in the game of rats.

Now they are following public opinion to try to win some numbers for the next four years and pass bills and resolutions and whatnot.

I am rather cynical about the fact that people would be on one side of this, OR the other, they are pretty much the same.

It takes a certain kind of person to be an elected official. The kind that needs come tar and feathers.
- 3/25/2007 2:04 PM
- Benjimon76 (message)
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