Marine's mother: Support the fight

for the 3,128,642,903rd time: being against the war does not preclude one from supporting the troops

geez

 

how exactly is that a silly statement? see, the problem usually arises when someone says "support the troops", but means "support the administration" - i mean, how many of these cries come after someone has criticized the troops? now, how many of them come when someone criticized the war?

 

I fully support this woman.

Everyone should have the right to express exactly how they feel, especially about something so personal. She is clearly proud of her son, and the work he was doing.

That doesn't make Sheehan less legitimate.

 

I doubt it. Sheehan traveled down to Crawford for several days of vigils, and this mother spoke at a Cincy suburb.

 

btw i'll also wait for the first republicon to denounce this woman for politicizing american deaths until they stoop to calling the shattered mother filthy names... certainly that shouldn't take long

 

So this moonbat screwball wants to send more kids to their deaths.......

Oops, thought I was ITN for a moment.

 

Being a mother of a soldier does not give her any special right or authority to speak out for or against the war, and I wish the media stopped wasting people's already ferret-like attention spans on these non-stories.

 

Agree! They should have focused on Madonna's new wonder bra!

 

This needs a link.

 

Look, Sheehan is the most illegitimate anti-war activist around. Her protest is not about the policy, per se; it's classic moonbat stuff...for her, and her moonbat brethren, it's all about the oil, or all about Bush's oil cronies getting rich, or the Zionist neo-cons actiing as puppets for Israel or some other half-cocked understanding.

Oh sure, she sprinkles in the justifiable lack-of-WMD complaint...but that's just one little piece of her nutsoid puzzle about the USA in general. Heck, she doesn't even think Afghanistan is legitimate

Moreover, this wacko vision of what this war was about is draped in her own sacrifice.

Also, this typical lefty reaction -- you can be for the troops but against the war -- sounds great in theory, but in practice is fraught with nasty little contradictions. Now, you could have been AGAINST the war initially going in, but that's over. We're there. We can't turn back the clock.

As a result, can anyone, really, be AGAINST what we are doing now? Right this instant? That is, trying to build a democracy? Trying to quell an Islamo-fascist jihadist insurgency?

In other words, if you are AGAINST the war now, you are AGAINST the possibility of success. You are conceding failure.

And if you concede failure, then you are telling all the soldiers over there, everyone of them now, who are risking their lives, and each and every soldier who has been wounded or killed, and their loved ones, that none of what they have done, and none of what they are doing, is WORTH it.

Face it...THAT's what you are doing if you are AGAINST it. You are telling them that what they do is useless, worthless, and means nothing. How would you like it?

 

It really bugs you the amount of political damage she's inflicting on Dubya, doesn't it?

 

It doesn't follow that If I am against the war, I am conceding failure. I could actually make an equally strong argument that supporting the war means supporting failure.

 

This is a special kind of idiocy.

 

We didn't expect you to understand it. That is why smarter men are in charge of such things!

 

I'd listen to him if I were you, Revolt. He's bigsoccer's expert when it comes to not understanding things.

 

I see.

So we would be successful if we cut and run, and admit failure in what we are trying to do?

I am glad I don't have your moral compass.

 

Then what are you AGAINST actually? Right now. Englighten us.

 

Have we admitted failure on the whole WMD thing?

 

Sure it does, though not as much as the relentless negativity of the MSM.

I can't believe, for example, that the News Hour would devote a segment to this crackpot.

But hey, it is what it is.

 

The past is past.

What about NOW. Right NOW. Are you or are you not against what we are doing RIGHT NOW.

 

I didn't say or imply that. Moral compasses aside, we could easily be at a point, where not successful outcome is possible.