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blueTopic: Support Your Troops
{To my friend who sent this bulletin to me}Thank you. This brought tears to my eyes.
Most people really don't understand that it is the military families that are paying the price. Support Our Troops ribbons are now just a twisted fad - bringing on the sickening sight of copies of random causes, such as Breast Cancer awareness magnetic ribbons - while I don't have a problem with them having their ribbons - it's just another sign of companies cashing in on a situation that actually HAS A CAUSE. Wait a while? Have some respect. None of the proceeds from any of those magnets are actually going to the troops. And my brother's ribbon - stolen off of his jeep. How's that for supporting our troops?
My brother is a Reservist with an MP company. They were deployed to Iraq for 17 months. SEVENTEEN MONTHS. His tour of duty was extended twice - the second time, when they were packed up, with their bags on the boat. Another company unloaded their gear and replaced it with their own. At one point in time shortly afterwards, during a phone call to our mother, he said that they had better get them out of there soon, that while he was fine, he said that there were going to be suicides. Because while they could not say it as they could be reprimanded, there were tremendous feelings of complete abandonment.
A couple of Senators and many parents (including my own) of this MP company made the trip to Washington DC - to the Pentagon - there they met up with Generals in charge of the operations over in Iraq. Finally, my brother and his comrades would get the armor on the side of their humvees. Armor that if provided twelve months prior, would have prevented a situation like one mentioned below: shrapnel from an IED lodging itself behind one of the kid's eyes. This kid was much more lucky - he retained most of his sight. Had the humvee been armored then...it would not have even reached him.
Bush can stand there and be proud of our military men and women. Pray for the families to his God in the Oval office. And pray for them as he watches the cash roll in. Going in to Afghanistan? Sure - I agree. Iraq? Who does he think that he is? He ignored (and fired) his advisors who said that the numbers of troops needed were grossly underestimated. Ignored (and fired) advisors that said the the financial costs upon our country were grossly underestimated. Do we see a trend here? He didn't ask his father for advice - why? Because what his father would have said is that we had no viable exit strategy - just as he wrote in his book.
He had nowhere near the resources necessary to man this war, or even fund it. While I write this, there is a new Reserve Center being built - literally a mile up the road from my house. Rumors of the draft coming back around are well-founded. I personally believed that both Bush and Kerry lied through their teeth. I think that there will be a draft - and it will come along with an apology - saying that the military resources required to "rebuild" Iraq were "underestimated". They weren't underestimated - the people who spoke the truth without regard for the hidden agenda were ignored and eliminated. Why else would it have been necessary to keep my brother overseas and extended twice? Because it wasn't the cakewalk Bush thought that it would be. He doesn't listen to people tell him that he is wrong. Just as one of the mothers below realized with despair. He doesn't care about anything but his agenda.
If we need a draft. So be it. Without additional troops, more will die. A draft will save the lives of already over-extended troops. I can accept that. It scares the crap out of me. It scares the people who will potentially be drafted (although not enough to get them to vote - so they probably already know that either way, that is not going to change.) It scares the crap out of the parents of all who are eligible to be drafted.
So many troops are overseas without the armament and equipment required to do their job effectively. Bush is blatantly disrespecting these soldiers and their families by not providing the necessary armor and other equipment to ensure that they come home safely.
And while he is putting all of our loved ones in harm's way... He is cutting their Veteran's Benefits. How's that for supporting your troops? Makes me want to jump up and volunteer.
Bush had an agenda. He used 9/11 as an excuse. Why else would Kerry have overwhelmingly won NYC? They have been most effected by the situation out of all of us - lost the most loved ones. They're not buying the bullshit. Why is everyone else?
When 9/11 happened. Sure, Bush did a stand up job handling the crisis. Who in their right mind would have done anything differently? What was he going to do - commit political suicide and say, eh well, fuck the victims, fuck the families... shit happens. ???????? OF COURSE NOT! People say that he is a great leader and they are loyal to him because of that. It makes me sick. It frustrates me. It fills me with hatred and rage - I understand completely the woman who wrote that she cannot even look at his face without being physically ill. For I see nothing but lies and deception dripping off of every smug patronizing word that he utters.
Now all of the Bush supporters can sit there and say that my brother's situation was a mistake, and that not all of the troops feel like this. That (what was it - 70% of the overseas ballots?) were for Bush - that the troops voted for Bush? Because they are BRAINWASHED.
My brother came back and was all for Bush - it took a lot of long talks and REAL EVIDENCE put in to his hands for him to realize what types of lies and deceptions were going on. Long talks from my mother, father and myself. His away message now says: if there is anyone i hate as much as Bush - he just changed my opinion of him http://www.guerrillanews.com/content/eminem_mosh.html
When my brother enlisted, (before 9/11) my mother pointed at him, and said "Bush is in office, we're going to war." And he shrugged and said, no...
Bush doesn't care about our boys overseas. He doesn't care about my brother. He doesn't care about our domestic issues. He doesn't care about you, he doesn't care about me. He cares about money and the facade of religion. Because that veil of religion buys him the votes necessary to complete the agenda at hand for himself and his buddies. World domination and oil.
1996
"...sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your T.V. everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing..."