^ I haven't seen a speck of actual validation to the claims in the last two posts. It's "Oh, I've seen this" or, "Well the fact is that", without a single shred of proof to back any of it up. All of it is speculation and hearsay, an accusation that lefties support terrorists, and not a single link or shred of evidence to support the stated "facts".
Just link me one article to the Kos or Huffington that "supports terrorists". I bet you can't.
Facts and links have ben provided in the past, most recently by someone , who disagreed with my position on the war, still, aknowledged that there were polls and stories about US being hated because of the war. However, here is a post from Daily Kos, link doesn't work anymore, but, this was up for Sept, 19, 2007.... "This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don’t know, being called mean. Or, un-American. Or something.
Supporting the troops essentially means supporting the illegal war. It seems that us anti-war types have been doing all sorts of mental and philisophical gymnastics to try and work around this. What has emerged is a sort of low impact, mealy-mouthed common wisdom that is palatable to everyone but is ultimately going to allow us to stay in Iraq for years to come.
Even Jim Webb’s shelved equal time legislation carries the scent of this erroneous wisdom.
Now, I don’t intend to demean Jim Webb. He is determined and impressive in his stance against the war and the crippling of our military. But this kind of legislation allows us to comfortably continue to support acts of aggression, as long as we give the troops a long enough break in between.
Until we have another draft, this is a volunteer armed services. I am not even beginning to count the numerous mercenaries that are involved in the occupation. You signed up, you get to go to the desert and risk being shot at by brown skinned people who don’t believe the lies you’ve been told. A war of aggression is immoral, period. If you believe in God, you can damned well be sure you are going to hell for your participation in it. The only troop I support is the man or woman who refuses to be deployed so that they can make the middle east accessible to profiteers who don’t give a flying F about morality or democracy. Or a soldier’s life.
When Sunni tribes got paid off enough to stop shooting at GIs and instead shoot at Al-Qaeda (in reality themselves) it is funny how they suddenly became Freedom Fighters. During WWII, French resistance fighters were also called terrorists and insurgents by their German occupiers. Can an anti-war proponent look at these Iraqi resistance fighters with the same admiration, even though they worship differently than us and when they eventually win are likely to install a distasteful (to Americans) theocratic tinged state. Can a person who doesn’t believe in violence support that people’s right to govern themselves, perhaps violently.
I am sorry but supporting the troops means supporting this illegal war....."
The Huffington Post and Daily Kos, two of the most popular 'left' sites out of thousands like it, in print and media, routinely call 'Hamas', and even Al Qeada, 'resistance' fighters, claiming they are the equivalent of the French Resistance to the Nazis, which the US troops are the Nazis. Of course, there have been Senators like Dick Durbin, who compared the liberation fo Iraq from Saddam to the actions of Nazis, Soviets and Pol Pot...
http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=13014 This was used by Al Jazeera, as has been the some of the movies, like 'Redacted' that took the incident of some troops, who were convicted, for raping a girl. Redacted was shown in theaters in Syria recently, this set off a mob after it's showing, to spill into streets and attack the US embassy/interest sections. Of course no women were allowed into the theater. On and on. This is NOT 'Anti-War', this is 'Anti-American' and suicidal. The worldwide Al Qeada/Jihadist movement is not just in Iraq or Afghan. It's in Europe and even our own City, you can see some of their work in what was once the WTC.
It's a shame that those who disagree with the current administration have to resort to supporting the enemy. If anything else, this undermines their entire argument. During the Cold War, Democrats and Republicans were able to disagree with each others on policy without losing sight that our common goal is to defeat Communism. A House divided cannot stand. If the West allows internal disagreement to overshadow our common goal of defeating totalitarian Islam, Western Civilisation will fall the same way as a divided China in the face of Japan during WW2.
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