Why do you people want to cut funding for our troops?

Question

I dont get it, you dont like Bush, so you cut funds for our troops.
That means, they dont even have food or any basic resources, so you guys basically want to starve our men and women.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Notice, 8 presidential hopefuls in Congress skipped the vote on Iraq Troop Surge and Funding Debates.

Answer 1

Maybe not cutting funding for our troops

but

cut funding for Bremer's Ice Cream kids who were running the Iraq economy?

Like the missing $9 Billions

Oh! it is only $9 Billion & + !!!!?

Answer 2

You should READ more carefully. Congress is deciding whether to fund THE NEW TROOPS that madman wants to send.....not the ones on the ground.

The only way funding will be cut for those troops in place is if Mr. Bush doesn't listen to Congress and WE, THE P EOPLE who want this war to end NOW. So far, he doesn't give a crapola what the American people have said, doesn't care that the last election showed clearly that the majority want to bring our troops home - immediately.

And - if/when funding is cut off, it will be done with time limits. For instance, when Congress shut off funding for that awful Vietnam mess, the president had 60 days to get our men out of there..... That's how it is done...no soldier will be hungry or cold or forgotten...

One other comment; we want our troops to be removed from a situation that has no end, removed from a civil war and removed from a deadly situation that they shouldn't have been in anyway. It's not because we don't like that crazy man in the White House. Congress will take care of him - we need to demand our young people come home.

Answer 3

"That means, they dont even have food or any basic resources, so you guys basically want to starve our men and women" is not true at all. Cutting off funding is the only tool Congress has to warn GW that he's not the sole decider. The executive branch was never supposed to be the decider-that's what the balance of powers means. GW is doing his best to make anyone that disagrees with him look unpatriotic-and that has been working for him.

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring while in his jail cell during the Nuremberg Trials

Answer 4

It really up to the politicians, they and the president make that decision for the funding policy. Now there are people that do not believe the war is helping the usa do anything but get deeper in debt. and would like the troops to come home. Fighting a religious war is a gamble, because it could go on for hundreds of years and nobody really wins in that situation. So if you think its right to pour 120 billion dollars a year into a war you can't win all the power to you, because your the one that's going to get the bill in higher taxes and a higher cost of living in the end. I don't have to worry because I don't live in your country, thank god.

Answer 5

they cut the funds so that more troops won't have to go they have no intention of starving or abandoning the troops already there and a few years ago bush cut the funds that families get if my chance they die in the war also he opposed an increase in soldiers salaries these men and women are among the worst paid so stop blaming everything on us there were many republicans who also opposed this or it would not have passed

Answer 6

aaaah yes. the shame factor. aren't you ashamed for having misrepresented what the American People want their Representatives to do? no one ... NO ONE is talking about cutting off funding for the troops that are already on the ground in Iraq (those already IN the ground don't need more funding). our troops have been barely getting by with the "army we have instead of the army we want" for 6 yrs now, not enough body armor, not enough armored Humvees and contaminated water to drink courtesy Haliburton and NOW you complain? what is being asked of our representatives is to stop the ESCALATION of troops into a civil war zone and prevent brave but under trained youngster from being wasted in an unwinnable war (for profit), a war for which we have yet to see a plan for an exit strategy. and don't give me that "demoralize troops" routine. what can be demoralizing than losing your legs so the stockholders in the Carlyle Group can buy more mansions and private jets?

you 29 percenters with your guilt trips and fear mongering are becoming a tedious and thankfully waning whine in the background of American politics.

Answer 7

OMG, in response to the guy who said liberals want to cut funding to make Bush look dumb, NEWS FLASH!! He's a f*cking moron and he proves that all on his own! The fact that he wants to continue this war makes him a pompous, egotistical, prideful coward! This war accomplished NOTHING! We should have seen positive results by now, but there are none. So far we've spent billions of dollars, and lost thousands of soldiers. That is the saddest part, no one wants these soldiers to starve, if anything they need to be brought back home where they will be safe.

Answer 8

Pay attention here:

We don't want to "cut funding for the troops", we want them to be WITHDRAWN FROM A COUNTRY WHERE THEY ARE UNWELCOME.

Furthermore, the only thing this has to do with Bush is that he is the one who decided to send them there in the first place, against what history has proven to have been correct advice to the contrary.

He is also the one who has now decided to send even MORE soldiers at this late date, because the ones he sent so far have been unable to do what they were supposedly sent to do.

Answer 9

not brave enough to show where they stand. they know how disgusting it really is.

they want to cut funding because the truth is they don't care how many of our troops die. they're just mad because they haven't gotten their way, Bush didn't give in like he was supposed to. he showed some balls and stood his ground, which is more than can be said for our presidential hopefuls in congress who skipped the vote. traitors, and i spit on them. they don't even have the courage to stand their ground and let the chips fall where they may. what makes people think these people have the courage to run this country? LEADERS LEAD. THEY DON'T TAKE POLL NUMBERS AND USE THEM TO MAKE DECISIONS.

Answer 10

The person responsible for keeping the troops overseas without funding is the one who wants to starve our men and woman. Cutting funding is Congress's way of stopping a war they do not approve of.