"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill.
The American Anti-war faction loves to say they support the troops but oppose the war. Let's take a look at how they support the troops:
• Senator John Kerry "joked" last fall smart people who work hard become successful, but uneducated sluggards "get stuck in Iraq."
• Washington Senator Patty Murray explained in 2002, Osama bin Laden is beloved by Muslims for "building schools, building roads . . . building day-care facilities,", while Americans only show up to "bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan."
• Illinois Senator Dick Durbin took to the Senate floor to equate US military interrogators in Guantanamo Bay with "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags," and similar mass-murderers, such as "Pol Pot or others."
• Barack Obama declared that the lives laid down by troops in Iraq were "wasted,"
• ROTC is banned on elite college campuses.
• An Ivy League professor prays for "a million Mogadishus."
• San Francisco bars a historic battleship from its port.
• Signs at antiwar protests urge troops to "shoot their officers."
• Michael Moore compares Iraqi insurgents who kill Americans to the Minutemen of Revolutionary New England.
In each one of these instances, the condemnation by Democrats has been tepid or silent. With support like this, who needs al Qaeda?
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How about sending troops to battle without the proper training and equipment?
How about going into war without a clear plan of post-war structure?
How about going into a war without a clear knowledge of existing cultures and sub-groups?
How about letting post-war veterans suffer from inadequate hospitals and clinics?
That my friend is how you support the troops....
Triva - Who said this "you go to war with the army you have?" (he did say this when the army didn't have the proper equipment or protection)
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