Posted on 05/24/2004 4:42:38 PM PDT by churchillbuff
I'm sorry, I thought the DemoRATS got us into Vietnam (along with the Great Society) and they were the ones that held back the troops?
By the time the Vietnam anti-war protestors showed up, the war had been already lost.
Your "ilk" are the ones responsible for the reception "our" troops got when they returned.
If he can't get a job,in construction,he should get a job doing something else;ANYTHING! And what about his unemployment benefits?
This just happened? "JUST HAPPENED"? Where are his savings? What about his wife working?
Good grief...if thed job market stinks where you/he live,then he needs to go where the job market is good!
What ever happened to common sense?
It's getting like a schoolyard screaming match.
Buff, I disagree with you, but i'd be mad too if I was in your shoes after this.
CWO, we've been friends for years it seems. We ALL need to act more like adults if we want to persuade people.
Like I said in #18, we pon the Right are going to lose the war AND the election if we keep at each other like jackals.
THINK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buff, you've made your point...you oppose the war. Fine. That DOESN'T mean you have to post article after article, day after day slamming our efforts there. As a serviceman myself, I can tell you it gets discouraging. We're there now, in Iraq, and we're not going to be pulled out. So we have to win, so the troops can survive and come home. If a Democrat gets elected, and pulls us out, then no American will ever be safe at home or abroad again.
CWO, There's better ways to debate than you are here. Read your posts in sequence and I'm sure you'll see. We need to be a team now, against Kerry anyway. These battles and feuds amongst ourselves do NOTHING but make us all look ridiculous.
When my family came home from Nam, I was there at the to support them.
I never did see any protestors, only on TV.
You going to watch CH tonight?
At the main entrance to Ft. Lewis the fences are covered in banners wishing our troops well and praying for their safe return...put there by private citizens.
Periodically, the anti-war crowd arrives to demonstrate on the over-pass, to let the troops know how their "ilk" feels about them.
The troops and their families know that the majority of us, sorry Kerry Poet but you and Michael Moore aren't the majority, support them. Still, I can't help but think it would raise their spirits even higher if we could tie some of these anti-war defeatiest scum to the overpass as a show of support.
Sorry LC...this team doesn't include those who undermine the morale and resolve of our troops.
You and bozo can't read standard english?
Blame society.
Of course, it's repugnant! It's by the Father of Neo-conservatism (and also the father of the neo with the biggest mouth .... now do you wonder how Bill came by his pomposity?).
There's nothing much conservative about it, neo-liberalism would be a more apt title! FDR and TR, indeed!
You support the troops like few I've ever seen. You do a great job of it, and supporting us here. You and I have engaged more trolls, pitchforkers, and other jerks here than I can count. Let's not degenerate to the level of the Moores and Streisands, huh?
Look, there's two possibilities regarding CB...
1. He's a troll;
2. He's really a conservative with serious questions about the war, which he sincerely wants to discuss.
If the answer is 1, just ignoring his posts will do the trick. If he gets ZERO responses, and is a troll, he'll leave. Responding only keeps the thread bumped.
If he's legit, he'll simply get the message that the others have had enough and quit posting the negative crap.
After watching Monica Crowley last night, I am really glad Levin took her second hour.!
read later bump
I see nothing conservative at all in those who wrap themselves in the "true conservative" label yet actively work to undermine the war effort.
But feel free to harmonize with them.
Pretty amazing how Neo-Cons can't deal with the absolute truth of the Neo-Conservatives agenda.
What's even more surprising is how they cling to this insanity even after presumably ingesting the facts.
I'd say they have a major problem with reality, just like their Neo-Con demigods.
That's the last thing i'd do and you know it.
All I'm saying is, don't encourage them by engaging in pointless squabbles.
We have a President to re-elect, in the middle of a World War. His removal will herald a retreat, followed by our loss of it.
We're not helping ourselves by attacking and sniping at each other, or by using these stupid labels like "Neo-Con, or "Paleo-Con".
You're right, he's positively obsessed, and it's pushed him over the edge of reason and sanity.
Are you aware of Zinni's opposition to attack the people responsible for the USS Cole? Are you aware of the commercial deal he later brokered as a civilian with the government he had protected following the USS Cole attack?
If not I can provide you with the data.
It outrages me that these people, despite having been informed of the truth involving Zinni, even today have posted threads using him as an argument.
As for sniping and attacking "each other", most of the self proclaimed "true conservatives" are already avowed third party voters...but the lurkers may not be.
Reason and sanity...concepts you will never understand...do yourself a favor and keep your head in the third party sand box.
DENIAL is a terrible trap. We need to come up with a twelve-step program for these poor souls. ;o)
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