Dem Divisions
Kick back and enjoy this little tale about Democratic bickering and John Kerry's prima donna ways.
But take a special look at the end of the story -- which details how Dick Durbin, at a party caucus meeting, presented poll information purporting to show that the majority of Americans want troops out of Iraq in the next year.
How revealing. Trying to formulate a position on Iraq is a matter of polls for them, rather than principle. No wonder Americans don't trust Democrats on national security.
Like President Bush or not, but he's clearly trying to do what he thinks is right -- not tailoring his policies to today's polls.
But take a special look at the end of the story -- which details how Dick Durbin, at a party caucus meeting, presented poll information purporting to show that the majority of Americans want troops out of Iraq in the next year.
How revealing. Trying to formulate a position on Iraq is a matter of polls for them, rather than principle. No wonder Americans don't trust Democrats on national security.
Like President Bush or not, but he's clearly trying to do what he thinks is right -- not tailoring his policies to today's polls.
posted by LadybugUSA at 11:38 AM
9 Comments:
Amber, God love you, but I firmly believe you are missing a frontal lobe.
Amber writes, "When Clinton sent our troops to Somalia, I was fine with that, but when he refused to give them the equipment they needed to do a mission they were asked to get done in 2 weeks, I had no repect for him."
And when President Bush sent our troops to Iraq and refused to provide them with adequate numbers of armored Humvees, how did you react to that? When a Pentagon report was released that showed over 80% of the troops who died would have survived if they had had adequate body armor--what did you think of President Bush then?
"Bush loves our country and will fight to preserve it,..."
In short, your rant against Clinton had nothing to do with his support or lack thereof of our troops, did it Amber? It was nothing more than a means of expressing your "blatant hatred" for the former President. How unsurprisingly hypocritical of you.
Furthermore, it is sad that your vaunted concern for our troops stretches only to the extent that you can extract political mileage out of it. You hated Clinton and you love Bush--the troops serve merely as props in your little political morality play.
"I would fight for him. He is my president."
So go do it. Volunteer to go to Iraq. In an effort to find soldiers, the military has lowered its educational requirements for enlistment and loosened many of its previous standard. The military also raised its maximum enlistment age to 42 this past week, making it much easier for anyone to join. Go for it, Amber. God bless.
Amber, your president has done nothing but disregard the equipment needs of the troops. His administration has done nothing but dragged its feet in supplying them with body armor and fully-armored vehicles. Oh sure, the official line is that the factories that supply these items are "working hard" to fill the orders, but if we had a real leader in office, he would have used his bully pulpit and presidential directives to spur faster production -- from numerous suppliers.
But no, Jenna and Tonic are safe from IEDs, so there's no real urgency for him. If they or the sons of senators and congressmen were coming home dead or severely maimed, there would have been a swift, decisive response to this supply problem similar to the effort that rebuilt the Pacific fleet within a year after Pearl Harbor.
No such patriotism, however, emanates from today's Republican party. It's just more tax cuts and giveaways while other people's kids get butchered.
You really need to take a long hard look, Amber, into where your information comes from and how your biases are utterly detached from reality.
I am waiting for Mr. Twister to apologize to Amber.
And I'm waiting for you to respond to my question at the thread above this one, the thread about money and happiness and the avarice of the Republican leadership.
Mr. Twister has nothing to apologize for, except for possibly eliciting more incoherent babble from Dubya's most energetic cheerleader.
Amber wrote, "It was impossible. The US was doing the best job it could to crank out armored vehicles and other such safety equipment."
On the other hand,
"The manufacturer of Humvees for the U.S. military and the company that adds armor to the utility vehicles are not running near production capacity and are making all that the Pentagon has requested, spokesmen for both companies said.
"If they call and say, 'You know, we really want more,' we'll get it done," said Lee Woodward, a spokesman for AM General, the Indiana company that makes Humvees and the civilian Hummer versions."
Now, whom should I believe, Amber or the people who actually make armored Humvees? That one is not even a tough call.
Amber, how do you explain what Mr. Twister has pointed out? Why do you continue to make stuff up?
Amber writes: "See, there you go Duke, assuming that i just wave pom poms and do high kicks whenever the President does something."
No, I think you have a gun in one hand and a tube of glue in the other. Your outfit is red with a big ol' W emblazoned on it, and you twirl around in circles, getting ever dizzier as you stare up at the windmill while listening to Rush on your AM radio. I think this self-induced vertigo has the effect of causing whatever Rush says to go directly to your subconscious and land there as fact.
Amber writes: "But, fine, you think I am a yes person, you assume that becuase I am conservative I am homophobic, racist, rich, white, and have zero compassion, nor have I faced any hardship in my life."
Amber, either you are a conservative OR you are an avid Bush supporter; you cannot be both. There is nothing conservative about invading and occupying a Muslim country on a whim, racking up trillions in debt, and disregarding sizeable chunks of the Constitution.
"You are an ass who likes to bully people when you have no other argument."
And you are a crazy girl who makes stuff up when the facts fail you.
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