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UNEXPECTED FROM “DAILY KOS”: THE COLD, HARD TRUTH

    I Don’t Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it
    by lurxst
    Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 04:27:34 PM PDT

    This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don’t know, being called mean. Or, un-American. Or something.

    Supporting the troops essentially means supporting the illegal war. It seems that us anti-war types have been doing all sorts of mental and philisophical gymnastics to try and work around this. What has emerged is a sort of low impact, mealy-mouthed common wisdom that is palatable to everyone but is ultimately going to allow us to stay in Iraq for years to come.

    Even Jim Webb’s shelved equal time legislation carries the scent of this erroneous wisdom.

    * lurxst’s diary :: ::
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    Now, I don’t intend to demean Jim Webb. He is determined and impressive in his stance against the war and the crippling of our military. But this kind of legislation allows us to comfortably continue to support acts of aggression, as long as we give the troops a long enough break in between.

    Until we have another draft, this is a volunteer armed services. I am not even beginning to count the numerous mercenaries that are involved in the occupation. You signed up, you get to go to the desert and risk being shot at by brown skinned people who don’t believe the lies you’ve been told. A war of aggression is immoral, period. If you believe in God, you can damned well be sure you are going to hell for your participation in it. The only troop I support is the man or woman who refuses to be deployed so that they can make the middle east accessible to profiteers who don’t give a flying F about morality or democracy. Or a soldier’s life.

    When Sunni tribes got paid off enough to stop shooting at GIs and instead shoot at Al-Qaeda (in reality themselves) it is funny how they suddenly became Freedom Fighters. During WWII, French resistance fighters were also called terrorists and insurgents by their German occupiers. Can an anti-war proponent look at these Iraqi resistance fighters with the same admiration, even though they worship differently than us and when they eventually win are likely to install a distasteful (to Americans) theocratic tinged state. Can a person who doesn’t believe in violence support that people’s right to govern themselves, perhaps violently.

    I am sorry but supporting the troops means supporting this illegal war.

At least one leftist tells the truth. The actions of the Democrats in the Senate today though did in fact prove that they do agree with this exact sentiment, yet lie through their teeth by saying they support the Troops.

Brother Roger,

Careful examination of current affairs in politics should reveal a combination of distasteful things:  insanity, evil, and being bought. There's probably another category of "UNKNOWN" that simply denies common sense.

When we start getting attacked on our own soil, it will be the fault of the politicians - NOT OUR OUTSTANDING ARMED FORCES!

I wonder what these politicians will do when the attacks begin. You can take it to the bank that the attacks will begin. It's simply a matter of time. We should know that the terrorists are already here in great numbers, and it will be impossible to stop all of them.

Regardless of what happens in the future, I hope that all people with any common sense treat the members of our Armed Forces with the greatest RESPECT and THANKS! They served with honor, courage, and distinction. They DID preserve our freedom and safety - in spite of the corrupt, incompetent, and wimpy politicians. DUH? - They are fighting terrorists, and those terrorists are determined to kill us. In fact, they have been killing us for decades - JUST not on our own soil. The terrorists are about to start killing large numbers of innocent people on our own soil. Maybe we will survive, and maybe not. Regardless, it won't be the fault of anyone but our politicians.

If they don't get killed first they will be hiding in the bunkers underground in DC while the true Americans are fighting the enemy.

YEP! This sounds about right. They will lock themselves in, but maybe there will be terrorists locked in there with them.

With the way things are going in Congress that would most likely be true, starting with Keith Ellison.