This was just a comment I made to my own article, "Bush arms terrorists":
>"support the troops"
>remember that being drummed in our ears?
>Why can't the White House do it? What am I supposed to do - send them gum in the mail?
I decided to make that comment its own article since it's almost its own theme.
How many ways has the White House NOT supported our troops (all while telling us to do it)?
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to keep our butts free! They deserve all the support
they can get, and do you think that Bush actually has
any feelings about these people that are also doing
the same for him? I will always be there to support in
any way I can. I don't believe you really meant you
would not support them, did you?
I think that needs to come out of the White House and Congress.
I just see it on TV.
I, too, would like to see the white house's list of suggestions.
Our tax dollars, a big part of them, go from our paychecks every week to supposedly support the troops. . . yet how is that money being spent?
I disagree with Janet. I doubt if most of those youngsters who sign up in the Army have a very good idea of what they are getting into. Both my dead husbands were career military men, and I was in the Waves in WWII, but I helped talk my friend's son out of joining the marines after high school to fight in this terrible and unnecessary war. Instead, he hired on with a company that is building giant wind generators - wind mills. He travels around the west and is doing very well.
But I see on TV how so many are being blown off, under paid, and left off to fend for themselves with serious crippling problems caused by the war. I don't think the TV news makes those people up.
What will five saucy novels do? They need BIG help in a BIG way that only BIG government can do.
And they need to come home! They aren't fighting for anybody's freedom in Iraq, that's for sure.
Peter, I know your point is absolutely valid, but I still feel compelled to do whatever tiny bit I can on an individual basis.
the beaver built his dam and the river overflowed onto the land flooding out the field mice. the field mice were to busy scurrying away to fight back. the ants figured out they could climb onto a log and float over to the dam to talk to the beavers. the beaver in charge was not available. he was out scouting new locations.
I babble like the river