Letter from Iraq: They're not supporting the troops

Ridgefield Press (CT) ^ | Jun 2, 2006 | By Anthony Ippoliti

[Koblenz]

This letter appeared in our local paper a few weeks ago (the paper is a weekly).

[Peach]

This breaks my heart.

This is what freepers can do to increase support for the war and our beloved military. Please take some time out of your busy days to read and respond in whatever way you can.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1649228/posts?page=3

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

what they are really doing is using our lives and the issue of our safety and well-being as a means to achieve a political end.

Bump.

[CSM]

Thanks for posting, it is a good letter.

I just heard a commercial for this website, be careful, when visiting this site your monitor might get blurry.

http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/index.aspx

If you visit this site you will be able to send notes of support, read notes to the troops and read notes from the troops. I am very surprised I didn't know about this one yet.....

God Bless our fighting men and women. They are the reason I was able to confidently get on that airplane to Atlanta and the plane back.

[kenth]

Worse than not supporting the mission, the left will claim on a daily basis that we're murdering the poor Iraqi's. Then they also claim that they support the troops. By logic, the one's they believe are carrying out the murders are our troops. Calling someone a murderer is hardly support.

[CSM]

Support the troops, ping.

[avacado]

Excellent article/letter.

I have posed that same question to liberals: How exactly do you support the troops? Have you sent them care packages? The answer is always no.

The liberals use the troops for their political end. Period. And that gets me so hot under the collar that I think I may have to get up and go down to the local Starbucks and whoop me a few liberals right now!

[in hoc signo vinces]

Thats a darn well written letter...the moonbats are getting their arse handed to them on many fronts.

[keat]

I wonder how many letters like this are sent to the NYT and the LAT each week and hit the sh*t can as soon as they are received?

[keat]

I wonder how many letters like this are sent to the NYT and the LAT each week and hit the sh*t can as soon as they are received?

[meanie monster]

Thanks for this post.....I am putting it in my blog......

[oldtimer2]

I will admit that newspapers should cover the antiwar events. But the fact that no newspaper has carried any coverage of our warriors receiving a medal is disgraceful.

Covering only one side will, over time lead uninformed readers that there is only one side. If they could see the award ceremonies and read what these men have done would demonstrate that they are worthy of real support.

[detroitdarien]

It seems like our troops never get a break in any direction. I read the following headline in the WP today:

Iraq Amnesty Plan May Cover Attacks On U.S. Military

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402432.html

So, our good buddy Maliki says its AOK to kill Americans? There's gratitude for ya..

[SuziQ]

If your desire is to protest the war, then protest the war, but don’t use me or any reference to our troops as a tool to bolster your purpose.

I'm glad a soldier finally said it!!

[Dead Dog]

The Peace Movement lost all credibility when the persisted after the signing of the Paris Accords. They are not about Peace, their agenda global Marxism.

[SaxxonWoods]

"Such organizations damage the morale of the men and women in the armed forces and progressively cause them to believe less and less in the mission at hand."

Great letter, except I wish he hadn't written the above sentence. This will only encourage the 5th column, it is just what they hope to hear, hurting soldier morale is one of their goals.

[SuziQ]

So, our good buddy Maliki says its AOK to kill Americans? There's gratitude for ya..

I wouldn't believe something like that if I read in the Washington Compost. They always manage to twist the meaning, and when the truth comes out, everyone has gotten all hot and bothered and misses it.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

Pings to DC chapter members who faithfully face down these same type of "troop unsupporters" every Friday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and elsewhere. Maybe each Code Pink non-supporter there should get a copy of this Marine's letter. (It may not help, though, since many of the words are over two syllables.)

[Smogger]

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