Do you really think the Liberals and Democrats do care about our troops?????

Question

1. Democrats tried so hard to block the absentee votes from the oversea troops in 2000 and 2004.
2. Those anti-war protesters spit on our troops and yell "Murderers and Child killers"...
3. Democrats keep claiming "We support the troops but we will not send more reinforcement and funds to our troops but we do support our troops!!"

You tell me....

you tell me.

Answer 1

they care about their party line period

Answer 2

1. Many of the absentee votes in 2000 were not verified or properly time stamped, others showed evidence of fraud or tampering. Challenging these ballots was part of the recount process in 2000 but not in 2004. This had nothing to do with the fact that the votes were from the military or "caring" for the troops.Remember, Bush ultimately won by only a few hundred votes, so every vote was important.

2. What anti war protesters were spitting on the troops? Any incident you cite is bound to be an isolated one; otherwise this would be front page news.

3. Many Democrats believe that supporting the troops = getting them out of the middle of the civil war in Iraq. Civil wars need to be fought be the residents of the country; a foreign presence just delays a resolution and end to the hostilities.

Answer 3

I'd like to see an unbiased link that claims Democrats tried to block votes from soldiers overseas, and until I do I won't comment on your claim.

As far as anti-war protesters spitting on troops and calling names? That was 40 years ago, where have you been? There have been no reports of such activity toward our troops from this conflict, or any conflict since Vietnam.

Supporting the troops is what is causing the Democrats to move cautiously in Congress in regard to this war. They have made it abundantly clear that they not only support the troops but are horrified over the shortage of equipment and supplies that plagues the troops because the Bush Administration wasn't prepared for the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. They are the ones who want to make sure all of our troops in Iraq have the proper equipment, not the Republicans. Every plan the Democrats debate has inclusions for the support of our current troops in Iraq. The idea is to halt funding for the new surge of troops, which would prevent them from being deployed there to begin with.

Answer 4

I'll tell you. You;re making this up as you go along. The issue with the overseas ballots had to do with voting procedures and not the fact that they are from the military.
A small fraction of war protesters have done some stupid things. They in no way represent the views of the rest of the people, republican and democrat, who have spoken out against the war.
We went 3 and a half years in this war without any serious debate over the spending associated with this war. Rumsfeld even tried to include an amount of zero in an appropriations request because he didn't know what the amount would be. The cons on this board who are upset about money spent on social programs should be outraged at the billions pissed away in this war. I'm not talking about legitimate spending on military operations. I'm talking about waste. I'm glad that someone is finally scrutinizing that spending closely.

Answer 5

Of course they care some of them have children of their own and grandchildren nieces and nephews don;t you think there prayers our with our troops all the time. as far as sending more troops that can only escalate this mess we have there now. I think there will be more funding for them as needed. The trouble is Bush has us in trillions and more dollars in debt with the war how much more money do you think we can borrow to support this war are you one of the ones who would like to see the United States go broke he used all the surplus
we had when Clinton left office and has borrowed to the hilt to
keep this war going it is time to bring our troops home. Iraq has been fighting amongst their selves every since Saddam was removed from power and years before you have so many fractions there that want to run the country unless they can come together there won't be any peace in that country we have troops being killed but they kill more of their own people.for no reason and that is men women and children they don't care as long as they have the crazy agenda they have.our troops will be in harms way.

Answer 6

Don't you get tired of using the troops as a political pawn? I find it offensive that you would use the troops as a prop to stiffle a political debate. Any time you silence debate you end up planting the seeds to take away people's freedom. So no I'm not going to blindly follow someone including my government.

If the troops stand for anything is that they symbolize my freedom to peacefully disagree with my government without scorn. So as long as they are overseas I'm going to voice my opinion. Your question reminds me of this quote:

“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 greater danger”. ~ Hermann Goering, second in command of the Third Reich and key founder of the Nazi party

Answer 7

1 - and in '96, and '92, and '88, that's what Democrats do! That's how they cheat! Nothing new here....

2 - Those protesters do not present the entire Democratic party. I'm sure that's not how the legislation acts.

3 - What does 'support the troops' mean. Many take it to be a binary condition, where you wholly support the war, or you support nothing. Supporting the troops at the least can mean you don't not support them. It doesn't mean you have to support their war.

Answer 8

My baby basically got here decrease back from that conflict & my grandson would be going. How dare you're saying i do no longer supply a crap with regard to the troops! a minimum of we're not sending them right into a conflict started with lies. And your fact approximately in effortless terms 7% of our troops are liberal is a baldfaced lie. So is your fact approximately we want each and all of the solid southern adult men have been lifeless, etc., etc., etc. it would pastime you to understand that the solid Republicans of Florida chosen a reasonable Republican as their determination for Governor by utilising a super margin over the conservative candidate hand picked by utilising Gov Bush. In turn, a pair of million/2 the liberals you slander additionally voted for him over a Democrat with "questionable" motives. appears like numerous us voters here on the two sides are utilising our heads. So we see yet another case of a right wing, knee jerk neocon who won't be able to shelter the subjects, so which you slander the competition to hide the actuality. whilst a techniques left liberals do the comparable ingredient, all of us see plenty extra cons doing it on numerous the boards we visit. go forward. Rant & rave, & disclose yourselves for the non thinkers you're.

Answer 9

Lets keep in mind that there is a difference between Liberals and Democrats. Yes, it is a ever thinning line. But, overall no they do not care about our troops, because they are pushing to defend the war and leave our troops hanging. Overall they don't care about our great men/women dying over seas, all they care about is destroying our great president, George W. Bush.

Answer 10

If it was left up to Cons, the wounded troops would still be trying to get better in a "hospital" that was mold and rodent infested.

Are you subscribing to the "liberal" Washington Post now, since they broke that story?

Where was Fox News on that one?

Answer 11

I think in their own way, yes. But, I think their way of expressing it is wrong. They want to cut funding, (hoping it will bring them home sooner) therefore punishing the very troops they care about. And, they want to end the war, therefore labeling the troops' jobs wasteful and without reason.