Posted on 01/09/2008 10:00:34 PM PST by tralfaz7
Liberals always claim they support the troops, and many do, but not all. How, after all, can anyone be taken seriously when they say they supports someone but oppose everything they do? But liberals never come out and say our troops are liars, torturers and whatever else they commonly slander the military for, they always attack straw men. Take the torture charge, for example. They say the Bush Administration tortures just about every Arab they can get their hands on in Iraq, but who is in Iraq? That would be the troops, right? Sure, they may come back and say it’s the CIA, but the military (i.e. the troops) would have to be aiding in all that torture over there, wouldn’t they? They are, after all, the ones in the field “rounding up people for torture.”
The latest example of liberals accusing our troops of basically treason is the incident in the Strait of Hormuz with Iran and was first posited on Huffington Post by a guy called Hoorman Majd. Forget the fact that he was a translator for the last two Iranian Presidents when they were in the US and that he’s an Arab, none of that matters. What matters is his day job is a music executive and movie producer who declared “It’s a Fake” when blogging about it. No military background, he just knows.
(You can see the video for yourself here.)
Fine, he’s entitled to his opinion (a courtesy rarely extended by the Left to Conservatives (read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism for a history of the Left’s tolerance)), the telling part of the post is found in the comment section.
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When Liberals(the ones who think they are sincere) say they support the troops some mean that their taxes pay for the military. Others mean they want to make sure the troops get fed so that they don’t starve on the way back to the US next week.
Liberals allowed themselves to get painted into the unenviable corner where it is a legitimate question to ask about their patriotism (irrespective of any linkage to “the troops”).
The tried and true operating rule of “Politics stops at the water’s edge” and their formerly honorable role of “loyal opposition” was sneeringly eschewed by the left in favor of nasty gibes at the sitting CIC, unceasing sabotage of our efforts to prosecute the war, and a slash & burn program of vitriolic anti-American rhetoric to anyone within earshot.
I’m sure that there are some on the left who do support the troops just and we do, but the starting point for asking and answering the question is a resolute “NO”.
Just more AQUSA.
That sign says it all...
The only question I ask my libturd friends is this:
‘DO YOU WANT US TO WIN?” That shuts them up.
supporting the troops while opposing their mission is like supporting artists while opposing art.
The Troops are not shooting their Officers, and Democrats are not supporting the Troops, they just can’t get the Votes to cut the funding, try as they might.
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