Is displaying a bunch of phony flag draped coffins at war protests, supporting the troops!?

Question

for the record, mildred says do whatever

it takes!

Answer 1

Of course not. "We support the troops" is just a cloak that lets the left run around bashing anything American and trying to silence anyone who opposes them without the left being called unpatriotic. Don't worry though. They're currently trying to change the meaning of patriotism so they won't have to put so much effort into it.

John Kerry, totally patriotic. Falsely accusing American soldiers of acts of brutality, rape, murder, plunder; why that's the pinnacle of patriotism.

John Murtha, oh yeah, patriotic dude that one. Why calling our troops Nazis is only one step back from Kerry's pinnacle of patriotism....why its the sub-pinnacle of patriotism!

MoveOn.org, ooo, love those guys. General Betrayus. Wow. So much patriotism. Gives me shivers.

In all seriousness, all of the above, along with the rest of the looney left, make me sick. Parading around dead soldiers to make a political point is disgusting, classless, sadistic. Don't think for a second they wouldn't have used real bodies if they could have gotten their hands on them.

Civil language doesn't come close.

Answer 2

No it is not! I support the troops, and the war on terror.I support the troops, who BTW enlisted voluntarily. They believe in what they are fighting for, OIF!

The people who protest this war have no idea what it is about,
and they are hurting our troops more than helping them. Just like people as "Hanoi" Jane Fonda, Sally Fields, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn who diminish our troops in the battlefields, or whever they are standing for our nations freedom.

We need to get the job done over there in Iraq or we can fight terror here.
I believe the Iraqis need to meet conditions also in this fight. They should be required to meet political, economic and military benchmarks to secure their own future.

Vote Conservative in '08!

Answer 3

this is not any longer help or loss of help for the two the conflict or the troops, that style of communicate is political rhetoric, all individuals help our vets, a minimum of with words. this is each man or woman protester's own rejection of the horror of seeing a 19 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous quadruple amputee or a grieving team of pre college infants being consoled via a youthful widow. Any actual looking individual will instinctually experience the would desire to stop such tragedy. this is deeper that purely ethical outrage. They experience no longer putting our troops in harms way "is" helping the troops. they do no longer understand that their is not any risk-free place yet, and that the battlefield would desire to o.k. come to them, if we don't bypass to the conflict container. Any actual looking individual needs to end something that makes them experience that way. they might't end the conflict or the lack of self belief it brings to them so as that they protest their very own lack of ability to result the region via protesting the conflict or those working it. psychological discomfort is as actual as actual. no one needs to make certain squaddies coming abode in physique bags. the thoughts generated from such activities result protesters on a private point and rigidity them to do what they do whether that action seems ineffective or illogical. Their reasons are not completely with the aid of fact of ethical outrage at a social injustice, there's a psychological and workers reason for the habit besides. they do no longer in uncomplicated terms like the sentiments the media photographs generate in them, so as that they attempt and make themselves experience greater perfect via protesting what's out of their conrol.

Answer 4

No. I don't think most people who protest the war know anyone in the Service, let alone care about what happens to them. I doubt many of them do anything positive for the troops, so it's kind of funny when they make statements like, "I support the troops but not the war." Anything like this gives hope to the enemy which hurts our troops and prolongs the war. Anyone who has studied Clausewitz knows this.

But I think most of these people really do hate the military and everyone in it, it is one segment of our society that works well (meritocracy, fully integrated, gets the job done in war and peace), but they know if the criticize they soldiers, that the average American will see right through their protests (and the reason they are protesting).

Answer 5

The people who are demonstrating believe that the best way to support the troops is to bring them back from the Iraq war. Sometimes when large numbers are batted around we don't fully realize what they mean. The coffins are to give people a better mental picture of how many lives are being lost in the war.

Answer 6

For the record one Father of a Iraq War Veteran was beaten and had his face kick in when he was putting a falg covered coffin that REPERSENTED HIS SON WHO WAS KILLED IN IRAQ BY PRO WAR DEMONSTRATORS IN WASHINGTON D.C..
AND THE COPS LAUGHED AT HIM.

Answer 7

I guess only true troop supporters would understand the symbolism of flag draped coffins. Not the ones that believe that the names, and images of fallen soldiers should be kept away from the general public so it wouldn't hinder the duration of the war.

Answer 8

Yes, because used as an anti-unjustified-war tool it helps bring the troops away from the needless Iraq war and to more meaningful work and well-deserved time at home.

Answer 9

No, I don't think so. It is anti war, therefore anti the people who wage the war. The line between condemning a government for sending troops off and condemning the troops themselves can be very very fine.

Answer 10

It shows us the true cost of the war. We spend billons of dollars, however, some people will never see their children (or have them), or grandchildren.