Iraq, Democrats, Ethics

The democrats have no faith in our troops at all

i disagree. the republicans are trying to say that support of the administration policy=support of the troops. it's untrue. i support the military but i don't support our military policy.

the administration's military policy has been short-sighted, somewhat ineffective, very inefficient. and that doesn't touch whether we should have gone to iraq in the first place.

how can you say the republicans support our troops when they have not provided a sane veterans health care policy, when they haven't given the troops resources in the war in a timely fashion, when they have abandoned a guy in iraq, when they have required multiple tours of duty and extended tours. the republicans don't even know when they will come home.

troublemkr s., I am saying the Democrats are furthering their own cause by denegrating the war in Iraq, thus putting our soldiers in more harm's way because it emboldens the insurgents and terrorists to continue their cause of death to Americans. Why did you go off on a tangent with all of what you are saying about the current administration? Do you join the Democrats in the assault on our troops? That was the question.

Faith in our troops is quite different from faith in the wisdom of what they are ordered to do. Rumsfeld and Bush are deeply incompetent war criminals.

I'm sorry you feel that way Stephen.

Woodrow Wilson turned his back on our European allies and made every excuse that he could possibly come up with to keep us out of World War I even though our merchant ships were being sunk and American lives were being lost till he was forced to declare war. He was a Democrat.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt kissed the Jap's asses for years trying to avoid war till he was forced to declare war after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor where about 2400 Americans were killed and almost 1200 injured along with the loss of much of the Pacific fleet. He was a Democrat.

Dwight David Eisenhower honored our commitment to the South East Asia Treaty Organization and sent troops into Campuchea to help the French but then the French turned tail and left America to sort out the whole mess in what became known as Viet Nam. He was a Republican who honored our treaty commitments.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected, he was a Democrat with cajones, and he was ready to turn loose the dogs and do some serious butt kicking and he was ready to take on Fidel's Cuban rabble and the Russians too. The Russians backed away rather than be wiped out in a nuclear war, Fidel calmed down and JFK was assassinated. JFK was the last Democrat who was an honorable man.

Lyndon Baines Johnson couldn't wait to be sworn in as President so he insisted that the swearing in take place less than 2 hours after President Kennedy was shot and he had Jackie Kennedy brought in, still wearing her blood soaked clothes, to stand by his side. He immediately started placing limits on all GI activity and started the Courts Martials of many GIs' who were fighting to stay alive by charging them with various war crimes. Johnson finally restricted the American activity in Viet Nam so much that we had to turn tail and run like hell only to be cussed at and spat upon on our return to the USA. LBJ was another Democrat.

Anything I say about Billy Carter's big brother, James Earl, will be too much because he was the biggest nothing ever to serve as President of the USA. Another Democrat.

Now we're down to Slick Willie Clinton, Rhodes Scholar, sex maniac and world class thief and liar with the morals of an alley cat who had the intel to capture Osama and prevent 9/11 and most of the Middle Eastern bull crap that is taking place now but he was a total wuss too who was following the Democratic leadership's advice of avoiding conflict at any cost. Well, that Democrat has cost and is costing us dearly.

I've been trying to understand the Democratic way of thinking for over 50 years and all that I can see is that they are working their butts off to turn us into a socialist nation.

The Republicans aren't angels either but at least they have the idea that if you work your butt off to earn and save something then you should be able to keep it. That makes them different from the general Democratic thought that we all should share equally like good little boys and girls, even the folks who are totally healthy and just too damned lazy to work should get a share too.

Stephen M, find some news from Reuters or the BBC and you'll find out that the General Officers on the ground in the Middle East are the folks who are calling the shots. Rumsfield is only the gofur between those General Officers and the Executive and Legislative branches of government here at home.

Larry A., well said. Historically Democrats have been soft on threats to our people. Why would we think that will change? I certainly don't think it will change a thing. Actually, my parents were Democrats for years and years, til Johnson came along and changed the course of the party forever, heading towards socialism. They have been republican for years. Course, we did make a big mistake by voting for Jimmy Carter. Thank you for your comment.