SENATORS ADVOCATE ABANDONING THE TROOPS: Another VietNam?

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187968.post-1169134352804189142007-01-18T09:14:00.000-06:002007-01-18T09:32:32.826-06:00 SENATORS ADVOCATE ABANDONING THE TROOPS: Another VietNam? Do they never learn? Congress took over running the war in VietNam and we got our asses kicked, left guys behind to be tortured and die, and lost all credibility. Politicians ran the Korean war, and the result was VietNam, and virtually every debacle since then. Every time the politicians get involved in military matters, American soldiers and civilians pay in blood and bone. I believe it’s time the politicians went to the front lines. Every one of the guys who vote to leave our boys exposed without the increased support of the additional troops they need to guard their backs, has to be sent to the front lines for a month or two, to see how it feels to be out there on the sharp edge, without enough of our guys to make sure nobody gets cut off, kidnapped, tortured and murdered. We lost enough good guys like that in VietNam. We are strong enough that we don't have to abandon any troop to the kind of thing at least one of our senators suffered. Right, McCain? The voters didn’t send a lot of ex-military types to Congress so you old politicos could screw up the military effort in Irag. When Democrats “took back the hill” with veterans, it was because we wanted the war run and won by people who knew the hell what they are doing, and we wanted the support in Congress to ensure that the military had the tools to do the job. If you didn’t get the message, you will at the next election. We don’t want our troops left high and dry in Iraq. We want the job done. We want the terrorists denied a standing place. We want them kept busy. BUT, we don’t want to lose a single one of our guys and gals if we can help it – and we can help it with adequate troops and adequate support and adequate supplies. And that’s your responsibility, gentlemen and ladies of Congress. You don’t have the know-how to run a war. You don’t have Constitutional authority to run a war. So far you have shown little ability to run a country or to do anything except squabble among yourselves like a lot of ill-disciplined and mean-spirited kindergarteners. Right now, all you seem to be concerned with is maneuvering to win the next election, that is to gather personal power. Enough already. The country and all of our lives, as well as the life of each and every troop abroad, are at risk while you play power games. Get real, fast, or you will suffer the consequences. If case you have forgotten, DC is the best, greatest, central target, and you guys are the center of the eye – even if you are the biggest bunch of boondogglers in the history of this country. If they take you all out, they’ll think they’ve done something. And what you are advocating is shameful: leaving our troops exposed to take a hit. That is only a recent tradition, only since politicians got involved in controlling the military. Prior to that, our honor required that we cover every man, woman and child. We defend our own, just as Roosevelt sent the marines to bring out an American citizen from some sheik in the desert. Crazy? Maybe. But the world honored and respected us. You blame each president in turn for the world’s bad opinion of America. I don’t think so. It’s not George Bush who shows yellow these days. Or self-interest. Or stupidity. Or pride. Ignorance. Hubris. The hero of Chappaquidick floats a plan and the senate jumps on board? Low blow? Reality. A man who leaves the troops once continues to advocate leaving the troops, and it’s just wrong. If you can’t see that, try going without your security for the duration of this war on terror. Yes, every senator who advocates leaving the troops without the additional support needed to ensure their safety must also agree to go “naked,” without his or her own security, during the war on terror, for himself or herself and family. Walk the talk. Put your life where your vote is, Senators. If you can’t do that, then you might as well put a big red “T” on your forehead. We’ll see it there, anyway. MaggieChurchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14126424014161615574noreply@blogger.com