Ongoing war funding is killing U.S. troops
Carolyn Bninski of Boulder writes:
Ironically, the troops disagree. A March 2006 Zogby poll (www.zo
Garrett Reppenhagen, chairman of the board of IVAW, recently wrote.
Reppenhagen will be the keynote speaker at an anti-war rally on Saturday
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One of the problems with withholding the funding at this late point in the game is the fact that this Administration has enough funds in the pipeline to drag this fiasco out until it's truly someone else's problem.
I honestly can't believe that we still have apologists for policies that continue to needlessly put our troops in harm's way.
Posted by jay on October 25, 2007 06:20 PMcarolyn,another liberal pinhead liberal village idiot.
Posted by Keith on October 25, 2007 07:28 PMHaven't you all seen the new car/truck magnet? It's got a stylized red/white/blue flag thing going, with the motto 'Secure Our Borders.'
Prepare to see more of those magnets, and fewer 'Support our Troops' or 'Freedom Isn't Free' magnets, as the new crop of GOP manipulators work their magic among the gullible. (the nice thing about patriotic magnets is that you can remove them without marring your car's paint-job)
In the coming year Iraq will be repositioned to the background (though our troops will still be dying and our money evaporating over there) since it is an embarassment and political liability for the GOP. America's ernstwile patriots will be willingly remolded into apple-pie-law-and-order-common-folk who only want to see the law enforced, etc., etc. And b'golly, illegal immigration sure sounds purty ee-leggul to me.
Re: war funding? America's attention re: Iraq will taper off, as the political lens is focused on our southern border. For a very brief window...while this still may appear to be a conscious choice among this slice of Americans...Democrats might force the issue by proposing building the biggest-baddest-wall in the world and conditioning its funding on a 1:1 basis to reductions in Iraq funding. Doubtful they have the wherewithal to take that type of preemptive effort.
More likely, this time next year, the GOP loyalists will have moved beyond 'success in Iraq', lofty visions of Middle-East democracy, and be unified around protecting our sons and daughters (and property values, and jobs, etc etc) from the new enemy from South of the Border.
Jose and Pedro will soon become 2008's Osama and Saddam, and the money will follow.
P.S. Don't break this news to our troops just yet. At least wait until I get my new magnets.
Posted by on October 25, 2007 08:25 PMTo whom it may concern,
My eight year old son, Keith, was absent today because of illness.
signed Keiths mommy.
Posted by rick on October 26, 2007 12:00 AMKeith, your stupidity overwhelms me. Get back in bed with your man-lovers ( Hank and An American) and quit posting!!! Your opinions are totally ignorant, as are you.
Posted by anti-Keith on October 26, 2007 06:52 AMI know lets bring them home and they can be killed driving on the highways. there are more deaths on the highways than in iraq so it is safer over there.
now here is a statement from a dim bulb.
“In reality the longer we keep handing blank checks to the Bush administration, the longer this conflict is allowed to continue and the more troops die and become injured. Funding the war is killing the troops.” hey assh*le funding highways is killing drivers so lets stop funding highways.
wow this is just truly amazing. anyone who does not go with the anti eveything crowd is blasted with pure hate from the left.
reading these posts I have learned this
progressive = democrat
liberal = democrat
far left = democrat
democrat = hate
cant win for telling the truth = republican
I guess I will now be a target of hate from the progressive liberal far left democrats
Posted by on October 26, 2007 07:56 AMWow..78% of troops want to come home huh? Carolyn, every soldier who gets deployed WANTS to come home! God I'm sick of the arm chair morons in the States!
Posted by on October 26, 2007 08:00 AMI guess I will now be a target of hate from the progressive liberal far left democrats
Ah yes, the ole Republican-as-victim routine.
Posted by on October 26, 2007 08:24 AMThe argument that continuing the war is killing the troops seems a bit stupid to me. Isn't this pretty much stating the obvious? It's a war, and the reality is that in war people die.
If you don't agree with the war, that's fine, but the case against war just isn't very convincing when you say "troops are being killed". To me this seems to be pretty much the equivalent of "this war is a waste, the enemy is fighting back".
Yes Carolyn, people die in war. (there are schools in Boulder right?) War is a bad thing. Abandoning our troops is a bad thing.
I was there in th 60's. Quiting is a bad thing, but we can't poll those who died because we quit. That's a bad thing. Marching is good, Carolyn. Go march! March March March, see Carolyn march.
Posted by T on October 26, 2007 09:05 AMT the only problem with your logic is that our troops have needlessly died in war...and continue to do so...all for the sake of political and monitary greed.
That's a tough one to rationalize.
Posted by on October 26, 2007 09:12 AMTo ever leave Iraq would be abandoning what was started so we must plug on forever with no regard for money or lives lost. Any hint of ending the war will be viewed as treason by the right ( as they sit safely here at home) so i suggest we might as well annex Iraq and make it a US territory, or better yet a state since we will never leave it.
I was there in 60s too and if we hadnt of pulled out of Vietnam we would still be there if it had been left to the right. BUT the last I looked, SE Asia was doing damn well without us.
If you were serious about supporting the troops, you would also be defending their mission. Your letter is nothing less than a declaration of contempt for the men and women serving our country in time of war.
Defending the mission has nothing to do with support. Many of the soldiers do not believe in this mission but they follow orders and fight on. I support the soldiers, the men and women whose lives are on the line. I DO NOT support our President's decision to engege in this mission, nor do I support the cowards who sit here at home and defend this war.
If you support this war Brain Stuckey, then why dont YOU enlist and go fight in Iraq and REALLY show your support!
Nothing could be further from the truth Brian.
You have to ask yourself why you continue to support policies that are actively keeping troops in harms way without the resources necessary for success.
Anti-troop indeed.
Posted by jay on October 26, 2007 11:51 AMBrian Stuckey,
If you were serious about supporting the troops, you would also be ENLISTING. Your post is nothing less than a declaration of contempt for the men and women serving our country in time of war.
Is Brian Stickey the same as Ben-Former Dixiecrat?
Posted by just sayin' on October 26, 2007 02:03 PMPoor Brian - someone finally called him on his cowardice and contempt and Rush hasn't told him how to answer!.
Posted by on October 26, 2007 10:50 PMcarolyn,when we don't fund the war that will be us killing our troops.Why are you liberals all for killing our troops in a just war?
Posted by Keith on October 27, 2007 09:49 AMcarolyn,when we don't fund the war that will be us killing our troops.Why are you liberals all for killing our troops in a just war?
Posted by Keith on October 27, 2007 09:54 AMOh, Keith, stop it. If you really believed it was a just war you would be there.
Posted by Mac on October 27, 2007 11:21 AMWow...Keith just cemented his tinfoil hat status by claiming this is a "just war"