Posted by
Saint Michael on Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:34:57 PM
After listening to all the rhetoric during the elections last year from Democrats about how they "Support the Troops but not the War", I am disgusted by the Bills being worked on in Congress. The only way the Democrats feel they can convince the President to get out of this war is to stop the funding for the war. That funding is what keeps the troops alive, buys them body armor, upgrades the Humvees, buys them bullets, pays for the training, etc. How can they feel good about the decisions they are making when they are taking away the support they campaigned about providing to the troops.
The reality is that the rhetoric regarding providing adequate training for the troops is bogus. My friends and fellow soldiers are getting the training they need. The MN National Guard spent 6 months getting the training they need to deploy before going to Iraq. The average Active Duty soldier can go through basic training and AIT for 4 months and get shipped over. Many guard members have many years of National Guard experience beyond that 6 months of training as well.
The argument about not providing adequate equipment is also bogus. The argument was valid early in the war when we provided everyone with gas masks because Saddam had used gas attacks (can you say WMD?). The threat changed and the military adapted.
The point that I am trying to make is that the Democrats have exhausted the ability to use rhetoric any longer. They do not have substantial grounds for making the tired old arguments they had been making for the first couple years of the war because the Bush Administration actually listened (more rhetoric I can debunk) and made the changes to protect the soldiers. The arguments from the first couple years of the war are no longer valid but that does not prevent the Democrats from using those arguments.
That being said, the Democrats can no longer hide the progress so they have to prevent the progress in order to keep supporting their arguments. If progress is made then they have no argument. Odd how the media does not focus on that. The only way for them to do that is to stop the funding, i.e. stop supporting the troops!!! If we stop supporting the troops the war is over. We have lost and the terrorists win.
No funding = No Troop Support = Giving Up = Losing the War
Terrorists - 1
Democrats - 0
My Congressional Representation
Sen. Norm Coleman (R) - Voted to Support the Troops
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) - Voted NOT to Support the Troops
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) - Voted to Support the Troops
2 out 3 people representing me voted to Win the War on Terror!!!