What does "Supporting the Troops" mean?

[9thIDdoc]

I know because I served. You gotta laugh about sissies who use Steve McQueen icons and don't have a clue about it. Old timers like me laugh at kids who whine about wars they don't particularly care for depending on the political climate at the time. Harry Truman and General MacArthur wasted more American lives in Korea in three years than Iraq and Afghanistan X 10 but the media hates a republican so Nixon was blamed for VietNam and Cindy Sheehan's nut cases camped outside Bush's home and retired when a liberal democrat was elected.

Cindy Sheehan's son died because Bush was so cavelier about soldiers lives, that he put them in harms way over a bunch of fictional bullshit. Her son died, defending lies!

I support the troops by only wanting them to be used as a last resort when there are no other options on the table. That's what this country owes them. And that's what this country has failed to deliver.

Or then again maybe you're just a pathetically self-centered asshole unwilling and/or unable to understand reality trying to appear wise and good by claiming everyone else is stupid and evil.

 

[MikeK]

"Support the Troops" is a meaningless cliche or political slogan. The left hates the Troops when a republican is in office but "supports the Troops" when a democrat is in office.

Left and right political orientations have nothing to do with the fact that "Support The Troops" is a deviously conceived slogan which imparts pre-conscious acceptance and approval of whatever purpose our troops are delivered to.

"Support The Troops" is approximately analogous to "Gott Mit Uns," which was stamped on the belt buckles of every soldier in Hitler's Wehrmacht. It means, "God Is With Us."

 

[Billo_Really]

Or then again maybe you're just a pathetically self-centered asshole unwilling and/or unable to understand reality trying to appear wise and good by claiming everyone else is stupid and evil.

Where did I say "everyone else is stupid and evil"?

Name the post!

 

[Billo_Really]

Let me repeat that.
statistics show that more of soldiers died because of suicide, than in combat!
Getting our Troops out of the Mid East would be a great way to show your support for them.

I agree. Bring everybody home.

 

[Politico]

You level of supporting the troops depends on how many times you say it. So example Rush supports them way more than you do.

 

[Billo_Really]

You level of supporting the troops depends on how many times you say it. So example Rush supports them way more than you do.

I always knew that one day I might lose out to a "fat repeater!"

 

[Wicked Jester]

I rest my case about the profound pop-culture ignorance of the left. The truth is out there but the left is too lazy to look or too dependent on left wing blog sites. Truman had no legal basis for Korea. He sent Troops to Korea with an executive order but democrats still love the feisty old legacy because Truman was a democrat.

Korea was a little before my time, so I really don't have an opinion on it, one way or the other.

LBJ sent Troops to VietNam with a bogus crisis in Tonkin Gulf but he is still a loveable old crook.

Not to me! I had issues with LBJ, the big lie in the Gulf of Tonkin and I'm still pissed off at him for recalling the F4's over the USS Liberty incident!

The "mission" was illegal and immoral. Going into Iraq was no different than Germany going into Poland.

Bill Clinton told America that Iraq was developing WMD's but the reason for invading Iraq was to enforce about a hundred UN sanctions that Saddam ignored. Bush gave Saddam about a year to comply with UN sanctions but he refused.

Regime change in Iraq started with the PNAC's letter to Clinton. But I'll give you a $1000 if you can show me one resolution on Iraq that contains the words, "regime change". Just one and I'll write the check right now. Bottom line, it wasn't Bush's call to make and he had no jurisdiction to unilaterally decide for the UNSC.

Do you know what the Security Councel means when it ends a resolution with the words, "we remain siezed on the matter"? In addition, officially, it was Hans Blix job to report the the UNSC on whether Hussein was in violation of 1441. But at the time of the invasion, not one report officially stated he was not complying with the terms of the resolutions. The worst it got, was saying that he could've cooperated more. There was absolutely no reason to rush into war. We should've let the inspectors "stay the coarse" until their "mission was accomplished".

Cindy Sheehan gets a pass for being what they used to called a Gold Star mother in WW2 when 300,000 Americans died but the strange part is that her entire network faded when Obama was elected even though Americans are still being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After everything she went through, then trying to run against Pelosi and losing, I don't blame her for wanting to take a break. But if it will make you feel any better, I've withdrawn my support of Obama when it was clear he was going to continue the neocon foreign policy agenda.

"Korea was a little before my time, so I don't really have an opinion on it, one way or the other."

It's called educating yourself, lil' man.

Do yourself a favor.....log off mommies computer, exit the basement, and go to bed, Sparky.....Before mommy comes down, slaps you upside the head, and tells ya' to do the same.

 

[freedombecki]

I fully support the U.S. Troops and thank them for their valor in serving this nation. I pray that God cares for them, and until they are home again, holds them in the palm of his loving hands.

I guess God overlooked 4,000 of them over the past decade.

And several thousand more whom he didn't feel needed all their limbs or their sanity.

Hardly. 4,000 of them are in a better place looking over us.

 

[Billo_Really]

It's called educating yourself, lil' man.

You tell me why its so important for me to get up to speed on the Korean conflict and I'll hit the books.

Do yourself a favor.....log off mommies computer, exit the basement, and go to bed, Sparky.....Before mommy comes down, slaps you upside the head, and tells ya' to do the same.

Is the reason you're trying to be witty and irrelevent stem from the fact you cannot tell me how average American's have benefited from the $4 trillion bucks we shelled out on these bullshit wars?

Or do you think that American taxpayer dollars, shouldn't be spent for the benefit of American taxpayers?

 

[Billo_Really]

Hardly. 4,000 of them are in a better place looking over us.

So we sacrificed over 4,000 American's, just so we could make someone else's country better?

 

[daveman]

Speaking as a former troop, I don't feel a whole lot of support from the left. Not when I get called "stupid killbot", "babykiller", and "terrorist".

Supporting the troops means not repeating our enemy's claims.

 

[Desperado]

Cindy Sheehan gets a pass for being what they used to called a Gold Star mother in WW2 when 300,000 Americans died but the strange part is that her entire network faded when Obama was elected even though Americans are still being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Very strange indeed, and there is yet to be even a comment about it.
Same War Different leader does not change the fact that both wars are wrong.
In the normal progression of things one would expect the anti war movement to grow
after Bush left the White House.

 

[whitehall]

Cindy Sheehan gets a pass for being what they used to called a Gold Star mother in WW2 when 300,000 Americans died but the strange part is that her entire network faded when Obama was elected even though Americans are still being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Very strange indeed, and there is yet to be even a comment about it.
Same War Different leader does not change the fact that both wars are wrong.
In the normal progression of things one would expect the anti war movement to grow
after Bush left the White House.

I don't concede that "both wars were wrong" but apparently the anti-war movement concludes that any war is fine as long as there is a democrat in the White House

 

[Desperado]

Cindy Sheehan gets a pass for being what they used to called a Gold Star mother in WW2 when 300,000 Americans died but the strange part is that her entire network faded when Obama was elected even though Americans are still being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Very strange indeed, and there is yet to be even a comment about it.
Same War Different leader does not change the fact that both wars are wrong.
In the normal progression of things one would expect the anti war movement to grow
after Bush left the White House.

I don't concede that "both wars were wrong" but apparently the anti-war movement concludes that any war is fine as long as there is a democrat in the White House

We can agree to disagree on the legality of the wars but we agree on the anti-war movement.
It is like the anti-war movement just walked away and they were not an anti-war movement in the first place and would have been better off being called an anti-bush movement.

 

[Caroljo]

Speaking as a former troop, I don't feel a whole lot of support from the left. Not when I get called "stupid killbot", "babykiller", and "terrorist".

Supporting the troops means not repeating our enemy's claims.

Exactly! All the left is doing when they say these things is supporting the enemy. The enemy gets stronger every time they hear Americans bashing their own soldiers!

 

[Caroljo]

I know because I served. You gotta laugh about sissies who use Steve McQueen icons and don't have a clue about it. Old timers like me laugh at kids who whine about wars they don't particularly care for depending on the political climate at the time. Harry Truman and General MacArthur wasted more American lives in Korea in three years than Iraq and Afghanistan X 10 but the media hates a republican so Nixon was blamed for VietNam and Cindy Sheehan's nut cases camped outside Bush's home and retired when a liberal democrat was elected.

Cindy Sheehan's son died because Bush was so cavelier about soldiers lives, that he put them in harms way over a bunch of fictional bullshit. Her son died, defending lies!

I support the troops by only wanting them to be used as a last resort when there are no other options on the table. That's what this country owes them. And that's what this country has failed to deliver.

Cindy Sheehan's son VOLUNTEERED. This is what HE wanted to do. It's too bad he died, but he knew what could happen and he went. My son volunteered right after the war started, he's training in PSY OPS right now....and he said if anything happened to him he would NEVER want me to do what she did! You cannot blame anyone when her son made this decision himself and was not forced (drafted). Bush didn't take him by the arm with a gun to his head and send him over there!

 

[kwc57]

The phrase, "Support The Troops," is a duplicitous gimmick floated by the right-wing propaganda machine to delude the impressionable public into supporting what in fact is the misuse of our troops in such criminally aggressive adventures as the invasion and occupation of Iraq and the wholly unnecessary debacle in Afghanistan. Anyone who truly supports our troops should be petitioning government to withdraw them from the Middle East.

So, it's kind of like the use of the term "fair share" by the left?

 

[Dot Com]

Its another way of saying "Don't question (Republican) authority"

 

[AmyNation]

Supporting the troops is a nice line politicians and pundits throw out there. A nice line that rarely turns in to any tangible support for troops.

 

[Dot Com]

I know because I served. You gotta laugh about sissies who use Steve McQueen icons and don't have a clue about it. Old timers like me laugh at kids who whine about wars they don't particularly care for depending on the political climate at the time. Harry Truman and General MacArthur wasted more American lives in Korea in three years than Iraq and Afghanistan X 10 but the media hates a republican so Nixon was blamed for VietNam and Cindy Sheehan's nut cases camped outside Bush's home and retired when a liberal democrat was elected.

Cindy Sheehan's son died because Bush was so cavelier about soldiers lives, that he put them in harms way over a bunch of fictional bullshit. Her son died, defending lies!

I support the troops by only wanting them to be used as a last resort when there are no other options on the table. That's what this country owes them. And that's what this country has failed to deliver.

Cindy Sheehan's son VOLUNTEERED. This is what HE wanted to do. It's too bad he died, but he knew what could happen and he went. My son volunteered right after the war started, he's training in PSY OPS right now....and he said if anything happened to him he would NEVER want me to do what she did! You cannot blame anyone when her son made this decision himself and was not forced (drafted). Bush didn't take him by the arm with a gun to his head and send him over there!