American soldiers and marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperatures - conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering attacks, seizing weapons, and capturing killers - and back home a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.
This from the guy who had "better things to do" than serve in VN. At one time, Republicans and conservatives would have found that reprehensible--for someone who had never served to use our service people as a political weapon. No more.
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Streak- The logic is amazing. People are fighting and dying. Cheney says that to suggest that they are doing so based on lies is reprehensible. He doesn't address whether these allegations of lies are the truth or not. He's saying that to suggest it is bad. This kind of talk is fine, I suppose, if we are living under an absolute monarchy or t dictatorship where questioning the leader and his (funny how it's almost always a male) actions would result in a long prison stay or an "off with 'is head". Unfortunately for Cheney, we're in the US and what is SUPPOSED to be reprehensible is the use of lies to further the wishful monarch's political agendas and put our military in harms way. There are plenty of good soldiers in our military like my cousin. They follow orders and go where they are told. It's the leadership's responsibility to give those orders them based on the truth and after verifying that sending them is TRULY the last resort. As the damage control heightens I'm sure we'll see plenty more of this to come. When you can't defend your actions, the only thing left to do is act extra indignant that you would be questioned to begin with.
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BB
They look in mirror, take note of the worst they see, and ascribe it to those who critize them.
Why do you hate America?
Anglican, you are funny. I am beginning to feel more like Bill Maher. Not in his dismissal of religion, but his sense that he would rather be known as Swiss.
Where was the outrage when the Republican slime machine besmirched anyone who actually served in combat that criticized this policy?
Have we forgotten the words of Patton? "Nobody ever served his Country by dying for his Country. He let the other Son of Bitch die for his Country." Where's the outrage of 2000 dead and even more in the forseeable future for nothing. We have gained nothing and will gain nothing when it is all over and done. There is where the outrage should be.
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