Can you dems show me how Republicans have used the Military as political footballs as you claim?

Question

Harry Reid (on "the surge"):
Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

Dick Durbin (on Guantanamo):
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.

Hillary Clinton (to General Petraeus):
[T]oday you are testifying about the current status of our policy in Iraq and the prospects of that policy. It is a policy that you have been ordered to implement by the president. And you have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy.
Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.
John Kerry:
Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Charles Schumer (on "the surge"):
[L]et me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here.

Charles Rangel:
If there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

John Murtha (on Haditha):
It's much worse than reported in Time magazine. There was no fire fight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. And that's what the report is going to tell.

Now, you can imagine the impact this is going to have on those troops for the rest of their lives and for the United States in our war and our effort in trying to win the hearts and minds.

Edward Kennedy: Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.
John Kerry:
And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the -- of -- the historical customs, religious customs.

Barack Obama:
We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent."

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Answer 1

Do I really need to go find quotes about how republicans constantly say the military is made up of mostly republicans. Or will you accept that that statement is always made. Or how about all of those republicans members of congress crowing about their support for the troops. Or how "unamerican" you are if you disagree with the war policy. Or how you don't support our soldiers if you don't support their mission. How about the claim that democrats are so invested in us losing the war now that they want us to lose. Need I remind you about the recent uproar about the Betrayus ad. Is that good enough for you? I can't believe this is a serious question.

Answer 2

Obviously, I am biased toward my own answers, but I'm intellegent enough to know an answer when I see one. I have received numerous "violation emails" with the accompanying reason of "not an answer or a question." There is no logic what so ever in this policy - and don't even bother trying to dispute it. You will not get a reply that even remotely addresses your concern, if, indeed, you get a reply at all. Perhaps Yahoo's true colors are starting to show.

Answer 3

Every time I revisit the above mentioned comments, disgust immediately follows. If a republican was responsible for comments like that, one could be sure the conservative constituency would poleaxe the author.

So why is it libs do the exact opposite by defending the behavior?

Answer 4

Long post. No patients today?

THEY WANT 'EM IN IRAQ LONG ENOUGH TO USE THEM AS A POLITICAL SCARE TATIC TO VOTE REPUBLICAN.
How much of a football can you get?
So yeah, the Republicans are playing with the troops lives.

btw
Kerry's slip was,sadly, all too true.

Answer 5

The post just shows lib hypocrisy Check how they voted on the authorization of the use of force. So sad

Answer 6

One word - Iraq. It didn't have to happen. It shouldn't have happened. There were other options than an invasion and occupation;.

Answer 7

Teddy's got a lot of nerve calling someone or something else "shameful."

Answer 8

Excellent question! I really hope that you get some intelligent answers and not rants because I'm curious about this myself!