How Could We Have Gone Weeks, Let Alone YEARS, Without One Damn Solution From The Democrats ?

Question

As a military Veteran, I can tell you, that we/military personnel are getting SICK AND TIRED of the Democrats Non-Binding Resolutions. Sick and Tired !!!
Either support us. . . . or don't !!

But keep this in mind, we will win, we will succeed, and we're coming home with OUR VOTES in hand .

BTW. . . . For all of you who claim the President is killing people, innocent people, bogus numbers like 650,000.. . . . .. .. that's Bullshiit !! Those idiots are TARGETING CIVILIANS. . .. not us . And we have the guns and planes.. . . not the President . We do not kill civilians, other than when it's an accident or they get caught in a cross-fire . The Insurgents/Terrorists WANT TO KILL CIVILIANS. . . . . . . Not US !!

Oh great . the question only posted later and in between previously posted questions . Thanks Yahoo.. .. .Liberals !!

Answer 1

If you ask a Liberal for his solution, either you get such an absurd answer you wonder how he was allowed to graduate from grade school, or you get the John Kerry response: read about it on my website (in other words, I'm dodging the question).

Liberal mentality reminds me of the ultra-nationalistic Africans of the 1950s who demanded that the colonizing powers leave their countries. The colonizers (civilizers) were more than happy to oblige; in most cases the country in question was far more a burden than a benefit. The colonizers were staying there out of compassion; economically it was an anchor around their ankle.

Well, after "kicking out" the foreigners (who were not only voluntarily leaving, but very happy about it), the Africans sat down to run their government. The problem was, no one had any idea how to run a country. They had no one with a college education capable of predicting the weather, so crops suffered greatly. They didn't know how to establish a currency and put it on the foreign market. They had no clue how to collect taxes, pick up garbage, or even open a library.

This is the Liberal mentality. They criticize, but have no idea what they should do. Complaining has become their entire political platform.

Well, what do you expect from aging, former hippies like Pelosi?

Answer 2

So, you are a military veteran, huh? Where did you serve and, if you are such a hottie for Bushes little war, why are you not over there.

Under Repub leadership, there has been nothing done for almost 8 years except self-serving and corrupt behavior from those in Washington. The madman Bush has mired our troops in an illegal war where they are being murdered on a wholesale scale. It will take the Dems a while to straighten the mess out....and they will start by shutting down our participation in an illegal war and bring our young men and women home.

And - the President is responsible for each death in Iraq - each and every one by his illegal actions. Over 3000 young Americans and uncounted 10's of thousands of Iraqis. You have no idea how many - no one does. And, all of the Iraqi citizens are not IDIOTS and are NOT killing our troops - they are just trying to stay the hell out of the way.

When the fire fight starts and the bombs and mortars come in, civilians get killed - that is Mr. Bushes fault...period.

If you are a Veteran, as you say, why do you keep saying "we"......

Answer 3

I am a Viet Nam Vet. We had to go through the same thing then. Tried to ignore it but after a while it does get on your nerves.

No solutions from the dems because they have none. When it comes to the military, which they hate, their only solution is to run because they have all been castrated. None of them, including Murtha, have a set.

Answer 4

Nobody thinks that you guys are going around killing civilians. I swear. You are our family members and friends and neighbors and we don't think that. I talk about this all the time with many smart "liberal" people and never, ever, once have I heard anything like that. Not even close.

Most of that 650,000 number came from the initial "shock and awe" and now all the insurgent bombing - is what the general "liberal" civilian impression is. Please believe me.

Here is an article from the Miliary Times. It is the latest one I've found but will keep looking. You guys don't all think the same way any more than we non-military citizens do, obviously.

...Support for President Bush and for the war in Iraq has slipped significantly in the last year among members of the military’s professional core, according to the 2005 Military Times Poll.

Approval of the president’s Iraq policy fell 9 percentage points from 2004; a bare majority, 54 percent, now say they view his performance on Iraq as favorable. Support for his overall performance fell 11 points, to 60 percent, among active-duty readers of the Military Times newspapers. Though support both for President Bush and for the war in Iraq remains significantly higher than in the public as a whole, the drop is likely to add further fuel to the heated debate over Iraq policy. In 2003 and 2004, supporters of the war in Iraq pointed to high approval ratings in the Military Times Poll as a signal that military members were behind President Bush’s the president’s policy.

The poll also found diminished optimism that U.S. goals in Iraq can be accomplished, and a somewhat smaller drop in support for the decision to go to war in 2003.

The mail survey, conducted Nov. 14 through Dec. 23, is the third annual effort by the Military Times to measure the opinions of the active-duty military on political and morale issues. The results should not be read as representative of the military as a whole; the survey’s respondents are on average older, more experienced, more likely to be officers and more career-oriented than the military population. But the numbers are among the best measures of opinion in a difficult-to-survey population. The professional military seems to be lessening in its certainty about the wisdom of the Iraq intervention and the way it has been handled,” said Richard Kohn, a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina who studies civil-military relations. “This seems to be more and more in keeping with changes in public views, and that’s not surprising.”

The survey mirrors a similar shift in U.S. public opinion over the last year. The CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, for example, recorded an eight-point drop in public approval for Iraq policy, from 47 percent in November 2004 to 39 percent in December 2005.

The drops in support seen in the Military Times Poll are “real drops, but I see them as reflecting the tone of the country,” said David Segal, a military sociologist at the University of Maryland. “People in the military talk to folks back home. Eventually, the military does catch up [with public opinion].” Other changes from ’04

Opinions on the president and Iraq weren’t the only shifts in the 2005 poll:

• Positive feelings about Congress, civilian and uniformed Pentagon leaders and the media all fell.

• Respondents also were less likely than in the past to believe other segments of the country viewed the military favorably. In 2004, 37 percent said civilians viewed the military very favorably; that fell to 24 percent this year. Last year, 77 percent said politicians saw the military very or somewhat favorably; 63 percent said so this year.

• There was somewhat more support for opening military service to openly homosexual Americans: 59 percent said open homosexuals should not be allowed to serve, down six points from last year.

• Opposition to the draft fell slightly, from 75 percent last year to 68 percent this year.

• Nearly two-thirds said the military is stretched too thin to be effective, though that figure is down substantially from two years ago.

• Job satisfaction and approval of pay, health benefits, training and equipment remain high — though in many cases, the support is less enthusiastic than in past years, based on responses.

• For the first time in the three-year history of the poll, more than half of respondents said they had deployed in support of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.

But few of those shifts appear as significant as those on the president.