Have Americans lost faith in Bush or our Troops?

Question

VP Dick Cheney argues that the house (Democrats) do not support our troops. Speaker of the house, Nancy Polosi, believes that, "The American people have lost faith in the president's conduct of this war." Which do you believe is true, and where do you stand?

Answer 1

I agree with Pelosi. Bush's lack of imagination regarding the outcomes of this war did a great disservice to our country for years to come. I have not lost faith in our troops, they have been given an impossible task and they are doing the best job that they can do. I love our troops and hate that they have been used in the manner that they have. We should never have gone into Iraq, plain and simple. Our congress was lied to and given bad intelligence and those providing and supporting that intelligence should be held accountable. We and the rest of America were manipulated and I for one am very mad. We have been tricked, and this tactic has been used before.

"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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

--Hermann Goering(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich

Answer 2

VP dick cheney argues... nancy whatever thinks... who the hell cares what they think they are not immortals but people too. Why dont we not ask an old man and a senator about fighting a war since they probably know less than anyone else. There is no question that the american people have lost faith in the way the war was conducted even among many republicans. As for the Democrats, neither they nor the Republicans ever supported the troops in truth. All they care about is saying the right thing to get reelected and gaining power.

Answer 3

Both Cheney and Pelosi are being disingenuous. Hardly surprising since both are shoddy little political hacks.

Whether the war policy of the administration or its execution of that policy are right or wrong has nothing whatever to do with one's attitude about the American Armed Forces.

But Pelosi is, in her own way, full of it too.

The American people are now convinced that the war is wrong or being mishandled because a few thousand troops have been killed. The fact is that we lost as many men in a matter of hours on D-Day. In the First World War, Britain lost more in the first five minutes of the Battle of the Somme.

If the American people have "lost confidence' then its only becuase they have been feed an unending diet of weepy stories about dead soldiers by a media that loves sensationalism. There is no rational basis for what the public feels.

Our problem is that we no longer have an educated electorate and the vast majority of Americans are incapable of logical analysis of anything, let alone a war on the other side of the world in a country about which they know almost nothing.

There is a reason for opposing administration policy and it is that every single thing we are now doing was done by the British in the 1920's and 30's. And it failed for exactly the same reasons we are failing.

And if anyone reading this was not aware of that then I suggest you are in no position to open your mouth about the War in Iraq one way or the other.

Answer 4

I certainly have not lost faith in my Commander-in-Chief, and Ms. Pelosi needs to be more careful if she insists on generalizing like that. If the democrats in congress were serious about stopping the war, they wouldn't have put up a bill to fund it. It's that simple. The fact that they had to buy votes on it by adding funding for peanuts, spinach, and milk, etc... makes it a farce.

Some of them said that all the completely unrelated expenditures on the bill were funding issues the republican congress didn't take care of. Even if that's true, all those issues belong on a separate bill, not on a war funding bill.

Furthermore, democrats are not about to stop a war that's given them so much. Think about it: they barely had to campaign in 2006. They just had to say, "I disagree with the war," every so often and they got elected. By the same token, as long as they keep the war going on, all they have to do is say, "I oppose the war." every once in a while to keep their supporters placated and to keep their constituents from realizing they sold them down the river. This is why it took them two months to launch a resolution designed to do nothing concerning the war that they couldn't even pass.

Then, they launched a bill with an arbitrary timetable that they know is going to get vetoed. Since it passed with a statistical tie the first time (even after they bought the extra votes), they know they have no chance of getting the two-thirds on both congressional bodies necessary to override a veto.

I think this will end up putting them between a rock and a hard place. Within the next two months, the congressional democrats will have to decide to either de-fund the war, or to fund it on someone else's terms. They will have to admit that they either don't support the troops, or that they don't care about their constituents that put them in office.

That's not a good situation to be in.

Answer 5

As a vet I support our troops where ever they are located. I have lost faith in Dubya as soon as he mentioned war with Iraq without finishing the job in Afganistan. I hate Cheney and his same story that the Dems want terrorists to win and the Dems don't support our troops. The Iraq war is becoming more unpopular everyday. Bush lied and 3000+ have died.

Answer 6

No, but I believe the American people are losing confidence in the House of Representatives, real fast!

I'm hoping that Nancy Pelosi has a grabber, for the sake of the nation, of coarse !

Answer 7

I did not lost faith in Bush. I still believe that our troops are doing an outstanding job.

Nancy Polosi, I do not trust her. She has an agenda.

Answer 8

Bush's position might be a little tenuous but I sincerely believe that the troops still have the people's faith and respect.

Answer 9

you can lose faith in bush,but not the troops,they are there fighting and dying for George w ,the man has no conscience,send bush or the vice president out with the troops on patrol see what its really like,have a feeling if anyone had the gumption it would be the vice president,nominated by George w

Answer 10

I don't know if I feel pride for the troops, but I certainly feel sorry for them. --- I mean, I'm not mad and I am not going to spit... but I can't say I support them. I would rather see them come home - than sign a bill to give them armor - then again I would rather give them armor than nothing at all. Why are they over there again?