White House delivers surge in lies, hypocrisy

[struggle4progress]

By BILL MAXWELL
Published February 18, 2007

... To surge or not to surge could be a great and honest national debate. It certainly is a needed debate. But we are not having an honest debate.

We are being fed devious semantics about who supports our troops and who does not. To Republicans backing the surge, wanting to bring our troops home and take them out of harm's way is tantamount to being the enemy of our troops.

Think how illogical this position sounds: If you want to save the lives our soldiers, if you do not want to see another limb blown off, if you do not want to see another brain pierced by shrapnel and if you want little children to see their parents return home safely from the battlefield, you do not support the troops.

Instead, you are portrayed as aiding and abetting the terrorists and demoralizing our troops. Listen to Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas: "The enemy wants our men and women in uniform to think that their Congress doesn't care about them ...that they're going to cut the funding and abandon them and their mission." ...

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/18/News/White_House_delivers_.shtml

[ninkasi]

1. Deep cuts in funding for the VA

are part of Bush's budget, and I'd like a Republic to tell me how that "supports the troops." Not enough body armor, not enough armored vehicles, lack of many basic necessities doesn't "support the troops' either, but then the game plan seems to be to shovel money from the American tax-payers into Halliburton's and KBR's coffers as fast as the money can be printed.

Bringing our troops home, and letting the Iraqis settle their own differences is the way I prefer to support our troops. Too many lives have been lost, too many people have been maimed, and enough is more than enough. To those Republics who sneer to us, "well, the Democrats don't have a solution, either," I'd like to say politely, "we were against the war from the beginning, and by the way, you can kiss my ass."

They act now like a psychotic 10 year old who has taken a hammer and smashed every dish in the house, even though we tried to keep from getting the damned hammer in the first place, but the 10 year old now demands that we put the pieces back together. The difference between Bush and a psychotic 10 year old is non-existent.