Why can't liberals support our troops?

Question

Now, I am a supporter of bush, and my dad is currently deployed. he's in the Special Forces, and he's gone alot. I don't like him being gone, but I still support him and I also support Bush. I don't think that you liberals support our troops. I mean, you are always dissing the war. The troops make the choice to be in the war. They could quit the Army if they really didn't want to be in the war. They knew when they joined the Army they might be in a war. Like I said earlier, they can quit ANYTIME. I am so sick of liberals bashing Bush and the war. Instead of supporting our troops, they have huge anti-war "bring-our-troops-home" parades. The soldiers make the decision to fight in this war. They don't like it? Just quit. That's all they have to do. It isn't that hard to get a job nowadays.......believe me, I am fourteen and I can work any number of places, I just choose to stick with one place. So, in short......liberals, why do you disrespect our troops? And yes.....I am only fourteen.

Answer 1

A lot of them do support our troops. Its the ones so far to the left, which is as bad as the extreme right, that they're just nuts. They'll bash anything associated with Bush, the war and the nation. Personally the people that bash our troops and our nation are just horrible narrow minded individuals and they make me sick.

Answer 2

I spent four years in the Military and received an Honorable Discharge.
I suggest you look at the Bill of Rights. The very first Amendment to the Constitution is guaranties the rights of freedom of religion, speech and the press. The point is that America's have the right to agree or disagree with the policies of our government, and to say so in public. There is no suggestion in the Bill of rights that if you disagree with the leadership in the current government, Bush and Company, you are being unpatriotic.
No sir, I am not being unpatriotic by expressing my dissent from this terrible policy of war in the Middle East. I had my small part in the Vietnam War. And when I got out of the service and went home I found a lot of people who blamed the troops for our loss in Vietnam. They were wrong!
It was not because the troops did not fight hard, They did fight hard and well, it was because the leadership knew nothing about Vietnam. Who the Vietnamese were and what their history amounted to in the last few hundred years.
Vietnam cut it's teeth on fighting China and eachother for their independence. They were as close to a warrior civilization as any country around. The American President did not notice that fact. We lost the war because Vietnam was the wrong war in the wrong place for wrong reasons. Iraq is the same mistake.
(I am fairly sure your father would disagree, but he has that right in America. I have the same rights, and so do you. And you have every right to say so in Public. It does not make me, you or your father unpatriotic!) Anyone who says so is not able to read or refuses to read.

Form your own opinion. You can start with the list below if you wish. There are many good books on the subject. These are some of my favorite. All writen by Vietnam Combat Soldies.
The story of Vietnam is an epic of millions of peoples and their experiences as individuals and soldies.

Thanks for asking question.

Answer 3

I'm a liberal, and I support our troops.

I hire vets and reservists, I serve on committees to distribute aid to families of deployed troops, I work on Marine Comfort Quilts (for the families of KIAs), I support both financially and with time and effort adopt-a-troop groups. If I'm in a bar and I see a man or woman in uniform, their glass will never run dry. If I see someone showing disrespect to a soldier, marine, sailor, or airman in my presence, they better be prepared to defend themselves.

Just because I think the war is a huge waste of our most precious resource does not mean that I don't support the troops. I have every respect for the men and women who are serving -- here and abroad. They are doing the job they were sent there to do, and they are doing it admirably.

I just don't respect the job that they were sent there to do.

I have no respect for the men and women, republican and democrat alike, who sent them there for no good reason other than to line the pockets of Haliburton with the life blood of our economy to the tune of $300,000,000 PER DAY.

You want to pick on people who don't support the troops, look at the current administration. Ask Cheney why he doesn't send some of that $17,000,000 he got from Haliburton when he left to run for VP to the children of the 2598 soldiers who have been killed to help them earn it back 10000 fold. Pick on the congress who have consistantly cut back on Veteran benefits because they have more wounded vets to deal with.

In this one respect, Iraq is not Vietnam. No one is spitting on the returning troops.

And no, they cannot just "Quit anytime they like". Google "Stop Loss". Even reservists and active duty soldiers who have fulfilled their contracts cannot leave the military right now. The troops make the choice to serve their country, and, yes, that means they know when they join that they might be put into harm's way. That does NOT mean that they want to go to war. That does NOT mean that they approve of a war once it started.

Answer 4

Not supporting a war is more supportive of our troops than anything else.

Especially a war that's based on outright lies and foreign interests.

Right now, if you support Bush, you, my friend are one of the psychos. You are one of the crazies. The majority of American citizens do not support bush right now.

So that makes you supporters the ignorant, the crazy, the nuts and the American ones.

Welcome to a democracy that is being ruined by your beloved Bush. By your beloved war. By your beloved safety.

If your not willing to fight for your rights, you will die for them.

America is the land of the free and the brave.
Not the land of the scared and the safe.

Answer 5

Think about it...

Isn't saying, "Bring Our troops home" kind of supportive of them coming home alive?
They did not choose to be in the war. They chose to be in the military.

You have to recognize that people can be very much against the war and be very supportive of the troops who are trained to do what the forces require them to do whether it is helping Katrina victims or being in Iraq. Lots of people would like to support them to be doing the former. I hope your dad will come home safely soon.

Answer 6

Some libs actually do support the troops. One of my 360 friends flips out when someone disses the troops. He's a Bush-bashing liberal ***hole, but check out his 360 if you want. His blog says it all (look at the pictures, too. This is one of the few intelligent things he's ever done on this site):

http://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=ApTyexEA.fM9o_etCxsStT7sy6IX?show=d8e52403fb41ab2f357599853b82f592aa

Answer 7

Libs always qualify their "support" for the troops. Many often add the word "but" as the qualifier. They claim compassion for those poor troops who can't stand up against what they perceive to be corrupt government officials.

They cannot reconcile the fact that the majority of the troops there joined AFTER the war started, and that those who were in prior to that RE-ENLISTED knowing what they were getting into.

They have their agenda, and damned if you're going to change their minds. They belong to the "appease first, avoid war at all costs" crowd. (That, and they hate Bush too much to see the forest for the trees...)

Answer 8

im liberal...i support our troops....i support them not getting blown up....i support not putting human lives in unneccesary danger....i support them not getting shot/dismembered/captured/decapitated/going missing...i support our politicians not lying....i support people not using religion to justify their opinions (even though you didnt)...i support not traumatizing the troops and sending them home all messed up

need i go on?

Answer 9

If they did that they would be morally right. And if they were morally right, they wouldn't be liberals.