For Bush so supported the troops, that he increased their chances of dying by 25%...Remember in M*A*S*H, when everytime a character was almost due to go home, they'd up the requirements to do so? Except that this isnt a TV show. So instead of three more months to drink hooch, feel up nurses, do some doctoring, and engage in hilarity, our soldiers will have three more months far from their families to get shot at, blown up, do some killing, and engage in the horrors of war.
For a political party that prides itself on touting the market place, Republicans seem to be having a hard time understanding the falling enlistment numbers as a marketplace judgement. Listen, guys, it's simple: Less than 1% of the population is in the military, and yet we've still had to lower standards just to maintain our current size.
300 million people in this country, about 90 million of whom still think that this war was a great idea (or so they say) and yet they cant even get less than 3% of that bunch to sign up and fight for an idea that they seem to willing to bankrupt our nation (in multiple ways) to achieve. What does that suggest to you?
To me it says the Bush Company has a product that it just cant move off the shelf. That, if in fact, Republicans did want to run the government like a business, they'd be heading fast for Chapter 11.
As a shareholder in the United States of America, I dont like the job being done by our current CEO. Either he needs to straighten out his act, or he needs to go.
Or maybe we could return the government to people who dont think that it should be run like a business. Who understand that the government is For The People, not for the Profit.
I wont even talk about the number of desertions.
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you are on top of the new spin. i support the troops by letting more of them get killed. hoo-boy.
Oh c'mon. Surely one can see that giving soldiers better weapons, body armor and over-priced, privately contracted goodies to lessen the chance of them dying is supporting the troops? I mean, in what way is bring them home to their families a show of support. Bring 'em home and they might die of cancer, or automobile accident, or choke on a chicken bone, or drown while at the lake fishing, or succumb to fate in any one of a dozen other manners which will not advance the cause of freedom and big oil profits. What kind of death is that? No, a warrior's death is a good death, especially one far from home defending one's family... from afar.
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