Vets of Surge Call on Obama to Support the Strategy
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."..can't fool all of the people -all of the time."
Obama has plans for your sons and daughters- they'll be sent to Darfur,Zimbabwe,Kenya,Sudan for starters. Just establishing his street "cred"?
Much Ado About Nothing!!!
So Lieberman and Graham want Obama and the nation to grovel that the surge worked??? How juvenile. Of course the surge worked because Petraeus, the latest commander, finally received the resources he should have had from day one!!! Our military has always possessed the capacity to carry out our policies until the politicians get involved and create scenarios the military is required to repair after the fact. The surge was yet another example of politics meddling in military matters just as they did with armor, MRAPS, no-bid contracts, etc... anything the Bush Buddies could not turn a hefty profit from. OK, Senator Bigstuffs, the Surge worked, our troops continue to perform outstanding and are paying the price daily. So what else do you worthless relics on Capitol Hill want, dogtags of the dead??? When can the troops and the American people expect some action from from you people on ending this damn occupation and allowing the military to fight terrorism instead of occupying territory indefinitely just for political fantasies???
Surge Smurge
What a pathetic waste of time.
Sureg worked?
The surge was designed to give breathing room to the Iraqi politicians so they could work out their differences and form a stable government. The violence has decreased a lot, but the Iraqi politicians have made no progress. Now we find things are still too unstable for the troop cuts Bush had promised. Our military leaders in Afghanistan can't have the troops they have told Bush they need because Iraq is still too unstable.
This resolution is a political gimmic unsupported by facts. Congress has enough real work to do, and should not be distracted by a small group with a partisan agenda inconsistent with the feelings of the troops. Our troops are giving six times as much money to Obama as they are giving to McCain. They are in the best position to know who supports them and who doesn't. McCain has voted against every bill that would increase benefits to vetrerans since 9/11. He is not worthy to be commander in chief.
Who are these guys?
Barracks troops? Or rearguard support units? Or civilians? Or maybe just braindamaged IED victims?
Support our troops; bring them home alive.
Charlie Green
Viet Nam vet
From a former Bush supporting republican
In 2003 I supported the invasion of Iraq and for some time, in retrospect, I see a string af bad decisions and poorly excecuted foreign policy and war management. However, my partisan pride is no excuse to for blind, stubborn ignorance. I admit Iraq was largely a mistake. However, any mistake is better corrected than paraded and neglected. Those that deny the surge worked often spout excuses about our invasion, lack of proper reporting, and inflate casualities by orders of magnitude(!!) while conveniently dismissing any positive accomplishment. These people generally fit two catagories; either poor and uneducated or well educated and too good for their fellow Americans. At least the uneducated have an excuse, as well as hope. Maybe this stupidy is transparent enough to boost McCain a couple points. It would be ironic that the surge not only galvanized change in Iraq, but also here in the U.S.
Wake up
Obama is too busy supporting the actual vets to respond to demands from Lieberman, Graham and McCain who don't. When will the Iraq participants "get it" they have been used? By the way gentlemen, how would you like to "surge" Iraq again? McCain will see to it you do. Also Russia and Iran, most likely.
You guys like being on permanent deployment?
Surge Worked
So you're saying that since Bush wasn't at the convention the surge didn't work...what kind of fuzzy math is that?
We are starting to see political reconcilliation in Iraq today because the security situation is better and starting to sustain itself.
90 percent of attacks are down, 75 percent of IED attacks and 15 of 18 congressional benchmarks have been met.
This is the kind of change I believe in.
Surge
If the surge worked, why no Bush/Cheney at the Convention? Why little mention that we are at war? All you're doing is arming the minorities to continue terrorizing after Uncle Sam is gone. It's like turning the National Guard armories over to the Muslims for Friday prayer.
I'm a vet, and this isn't freedom. More like political payoff for
previous campaign contributions.
