Do you support our troops?

Question

Before the invasion of Afghanistan and then again for Iraq I wrote a letter to the President, my two Senators and my Congressional Representative... If we as a nation deem it necessary to invade a country, then lets support our troops by doing the following:
1) Increase taxes to pay for the war and reconstruction
2) Start the draft with only health and age exceptions
3) Start rationing to keep all resources available for accomplishing mission

If a war is necessary, then our economy and we as a people should be mobilized for it.
WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS?

WAR is War is war.... Why does it matter the size of the engagement... War is the destruction of your enemy... we should never go at it half....

Answer 1

Because this isn't a war that requires a full mobilization, the way World War 2 did.

Answer 2

Well that's a good question and I don't know if I have the answer your looking for but I'll give it a try.

First off we have increased taxes and some of it is going towards war construction efforts. A draft would not be the right thing, I believe we need to send more troops over there. Bush got us into this mess and I now he's in over his head. I am a soldier and I think we should start rationing our resources. Time is a big part of this. I think the reason we don't do this is because Bush is worring about to many things at one time and can't find the correct solution to all of this. Well I hope that helped you in any way. Keep supporting our troops.

Answer 3

Yes, I do. But a lot of things have changed since the 40's. Let's address these one at a time:

1) Yes, increasing taxes would help with the growing deficit, due to this war. And someday, whether people like it or not, it'll have to happen. We've spent way too much to be ignored.

2) We don't need a draft. No one thinks we need a draft. The military no longer needs manpower for every single thing. Tanks, troop transports, fighters, bombers, stealth planes... there's a lot of technology that, while each require people to operate, requires less people be on foot. And if need be, there are still soldiers stationed here in the U.S.

3) So far, I haven't heard about any rubber shortages, or anything else which needs to be conserved. Economically, we can assume that we can now produce more as a nation (or buy it.) Also, since there's no draft, we still have the manpower to run factories, so there have not been any decreases in production.

Your calls of concern are well-founded, but they are not necessary at this time, with the exception of #1, which probably won't happen until later.

Answer 4

The increase in taxes would be useful. The draft should only be used when necessary and also the war in iraq for example is fought against an enemy who cannot be seen they hide and wait until troops are vulnerable. We should have a more specialized military with better training and increase in special forces we should equip them best for the war they are fighting now. Rationing is not necesarry at this point though they should attempt to step up munition production and focus more on development of new equipment that can be used to outsmart the enemy. We must make our military extremely mobile and capable of accepting many challenges.

Answer 5

I support the soldiers who honored their pledge, not the political machine that started our war against the iraqi populace after overrunning their homeland to remove one person. The war as run was totally pointless and uncalled for, and our leaders knew we would not support a draft. Instead they encouraged the disappearance of low-to- medium skilled jobs so that graduating students would see the military as their best opportunity to become competitive in the workforce.
Once the military had built up a force of moderately intelligent soldiers, the Cheney gang indoctrinated the media, who promptly took up the drumbeat for flagwaving ultrarightwing rhetoric. Our megacorp media sources flooded the airwaves 24/7 with militaristic propaganda, and the dittoheads weren't the only ones to swallow that spoonfed tripe.
If the war had been forced on the entire populace through a draft, it would have blown away the smoke and mirrors a lot faster, exposing the manipulators for what they really were: the true enemies of freedom, equality, and justice for all.

Answer 6

You suggested, "i could see no longer helping the conflict, it particularly is comprehensible, yet why would you no longer help the folk scuffling with and dropping their lives over there?" i think of the priority is that the folk that don't help the troops can no longer see the bigger image and are unable to chop up the ladies folk and men human beings scuffling with the conflict from the guidelines that added the conflict. i think of, in case you're able to get the folk with the signs and indications asserting "do no longer help the troops" to think of concerning the folk and not the coverage, you will discover that extra human beings help the troops than do no longer.

Answer 7

Yes I support our troops, but your crazy for wanting to raise more taxes to show our support, wanting to reenact the draft and to ration resources.

Answer 8

Yes I do support the troops. They all deserve a pay raise.

Answer 9

Because Bush kept wanting to give us guns and butter ( oh dear wasn't that Lyndon Johnson ) Well any way >>>>>>>>

Answer 10

Yes, I do support our troops.