Another Bush Veteran's Day speech. And still, no military coup to remove him from power. Why?

Question

I appreciate the military's respect for the Constitution and all, but seriously, how many lies can they be expected to die for?

Answer 1

Didn't Thomas Jefferson say "A little revolution now and then is a good thing; the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."?

Did he mean like when the Executive Branch starts shredding our Bill of Rights? And cloaking Orwellian controls in patriotic names like the USPatriotAct?

Ol' Ben Franklin said "Those that would trade a little freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." Scrap the USPatriot Act and give us our Bill of Rights back!

Sedition doesn't interest me. I was just curious.

The military won't consider a coup-de-etat against a president that is supporting them in spades. If it ever happens, I will help start the resistance!

Answer 2

I took an oath to defend the constitution from enemies foreign and domestic, too.

When any president becomes an enemy to that constitution I must defend the constitution from that president.

I say get off your yahoo answers website (this is the first time I've been here) and get a water purifier, stocked foods, and some American guns to defend your life, your property, and your liberty.

This is just how it's going to be. This is how it is. You can be prepared or you can be unprepared. I don't care. The choice right now is yours.


To Rick b: The "democrats" have NEVER voted to stop funding the illegal war in Iraq. Not once. Not even after the last election where the American people, republican, democrat, and independent voted for just that. Are you, like the dems who were elected over a slaughter of republican war party seats that were lost, against the WILL of the American PEOPLE? What Homeland are you living in? That's alright, we already have that answer.

Answer 3

The coup will come from the top at the Pentagon. The grunts will be second when they see what's going on.

The Pentagon will act quickly to decapitate the civilian hierarchy (President, male or female, and others).

There will be a military rule for a time replaced by the Bill of Rights and US Constitution (you'll have to take your medicine if you want your country, not Homeland, back).

And as for the one geek who keeps typing, 'Bush is good, Stop smoking weed," our constitution gave you the right to be that stupid. Enjoy it. They have a cell for you when the time comes.

Answer 4

They take an oath to obey orders put to them. If they do not do as they are told, they can be in serious trouble, up to and including treason which is punishable by death. In the military, you have no rights. Your job is to defend the rights of the country and it's people, but you as a member of the military have no rights. Mutiny is a good way to end up a memory to all who knew you. So far as lies go, that is what you may think, and your conclusions can be seen a questionable, at best. You do not have all of the answers, and listening to what the news media has to say would make you one more person, or worse, that will believe anything told to you. We are still a country that lives by the laws we have enacted, for better or for worse. If you don't like our rule of law, there are a plenty of other countries run by the powerful where their whim is the law, at any given moment.

Answer 5

Coups are led by generals, not by common soldiers. The problem in the U.S. is that the generals are part of the problem, NOT part of the solution.

Answer 6

Great Answers –

The military hates Bush. They invented the name “General Betray-us” for Patraeus, not Moveon.org. Had you been in DC during Patraeus’ testimony, you would have heard it used all the time.

As for the question; that is exactly the reason America’s Founding Fathers placed the military under civilian authority. They were afraid of a standing national military seizing political control and turning against the American people (just as they feared organized religion capable of the same crime).

On the other hand, their greatest concern was that, eventually, ill-educated and selfish voters would elect politicians even more selfish and greedy than themselves. Bush may be the Founding Fathers worse nightmare come true.

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jskmarden –

A 2006 poll by Military Times showed that more troops disapproved of Bush’s handling of the Iraq war than approved of it.

http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2006_main.php

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one_for_the_doctor –

The nation’s Supreme Coward lives in the White House; and I’ll bet you helped put him there, huh?

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UNCLE BEN –

Do you feel the same about those who expose the identity of our covert intelligence agents?

And remember, it was the CIA that demanded there be an investigation into the Plame affair; and it was the CIA that testified (by document) at the Scooter Libby trial that Plame was, indeed, a covert agent.

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rick b –

Invading Iraq was a stupid idea doomed to failure. Every non-partisan Middle East expert in the world predicted that the most likely outcome of invading Iraq would be a civil war and regional destabilization. Actually, anyone with the slightest real knowledge of the region knew this to be true.

The President’s own father knew it and said so in his 1998 book, ‘A World Transformed’. Colin Powell (then Secretary of State) told Dubya, “If you break it [Iraq], then you own it”.
The first Gulf War commander "Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf knew it, saying that if America invaded Iraq it would be a, “dinosaur in a tar pit”. Hell, even evil Dick Cheney had said it would become a quagmire.

Conservatives rag on Democrats for not having a plan (which is true, they don’t) to hide the fact that they also do not have – and never have had – a plan either. The fact is that there is no ‘plan’ that produces a single positive for America. We are going to leave; the only question is when. Politically, and in terms of Iraq’s future, leaving tomorrow or next year is no different that if we had left yesterday or last year.

Well, there is the difference of the numbers of wounded and dead; the families destroyed; and the further loss of America’s standing in the world by staying. At least that is the conclusion reached in recent reports by the US Department of State and a consensus of America’s 16 Intelligence Agencies. But what do they know, huh? Maybe the Bush strategy of endlessly screwing ourselves will ultimately bring the terrorists to their knees – in laughter, anyway.

Do you even know the definition of sedition?

Answer 7

Your question indicates that you have no concept of what a lie is or, where the said 'lies' originated from.

Bush is guilty only of serving our country in unpopular times and thankfully, our military knows and respects that.

Answer 8

Seems most these people can just bash you. Its a nice dream but the fine men & weomen of the milatary have better morals than mf's who are currently in charge. Wonder how many bashing you would like there phones taped or arested with out cause.Everything we were told as reason for this war is what is hapening hear. The war is illeagle where the weapopns of mass destrution why is Powell gone.

Answer 9

No matter what the military people may think of President Bush, they have all taken an oath......I did, and I still consider it binding upon me.
We do not stage military coups. That's for banana republics, not ours.

if you do not understand, i would be happy to untroduce the butt of an M-16 to your testicles.

Answer 10

To Gary F... I bet you didn't consider that the millitary's disapproval of Bush might not be because he had them in a war but because he had them in a war where because of democrat sedition he couldn't turn them loose to do what they knew needed to be done. None of our boys are dying for a lie unless its the lies told by democrats that say they'll support our troops and then vote to cut off funding for their supplies. The constitution is certainly no lie.