Support the Troops Poll. This should be good...

[dutch508]

Finally a DUmpmonkie comes out and says it:

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-24-09 07:16 PM
linkie 2 Original message
Poll question: Do you support the troops?
 Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 07:17 PM by armyowalgreens
I recently got into it with someone about "hero worship". I attacked the position that you have to support the troops no matter what. It seems that this general support for the men and women of the armed forces is quite popular in the United States. I do think soldiers are capable of being heroes. But it bothers me that we do not examine their contributions as much as other people simply because they are enlisted.

This is an especially relevant topic considering the current actions taken by our military. It's becoming fairly obvious that most of the modern conflicts we are involved with could be considered "unjustified" at best and "horrifying" at worst. So would it not be reasonable to assume that it's immoral to willingly participate in such actions?

Do we assume that people who enlist don't know any better? I think that excuse would have made sense at some point in time. But it seems to be losing it's viability as we get deeper and deeper in this mess. The same goes for those who enlisted long ago. There may be legal actions taken against those who refuse to fight. But is that a good enough excuse to justify participation?

I know this may seem hyperbolic without tangible references. But I am not trying to be an ass about. I promise.


Feel free to explain your position.
Poll result (5 votes) 
My support of the troops is unconditional.  (1 votes, 20%) Vote
There are conditions that must be met in order for myself to support the troops.  (3 votes, 60%) Vote
Other (please explain)  (1 votes, 20%)

  Brabnd spanking new, and yet, with only five votes, it's 80% to 20% against support.

[thundley4]

My support of our troops is unconditional, BUT that does not extend to those that commit crimes. That's where the DUmmies are flawed, well, there and every where else.  They assume that most troops are killers and criminals.

[Chris]

Our military is the closest thing to heroes we have in this country.  There sure as shit aren't any at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

[thundley4]

Our military is the closest thing to heroes we have in this country.  There sure as shit aren't any at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Among them, I'd have to include police, and firefighters.  Oh and once in a great while, the occasional athlete.

[Chris]

Among them, I'd have to include police, and firefighters.  Oh and once in a great while, the occasional athlete.

Athletes may be good at what they do, but I would never put Dennis Rodman or Pacman Jones in the same category.

[thundley4]

Athletes may be good at what they do, but I would never put Dennis Rodman or Pacman Jones in the same category.

I was thinking more of what some of them use their fame to accomplish off the field .  Those that start or sponsor charity groups.

[dutch508]

Update

Poll result (55 votes) 
My support of the troops is unconditional.  (22 votes, 40%) Vote
There are conditions that must be met in order for myself to support the troops.  (19 votes, 35%) Vote
Other (please explain)  (14 votes, 25%) Vote

60% to 40% against.
 

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-24-09 07:41 PM
Response to Reply #11
13. It's also a morally dishonerable war...
 I don't see how participating in it in any way is honorable. 

Political Heretic  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-24-09 08:30 PM
Original message
Support the troops as a political catchphrase translates into support the war. 
 I agree.

 

Kaleko  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-24-09 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
18. I support the awakening of every enlisted man and woman to the truth
 of what they are actually fighting for.

One helpful quote:


"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."

- Henry Kissinger

Political Heretic  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-24-09 08:29 PM
Response to Original message
45. Explain to me what "support " means. 
 By the way:

"Do we assume that people who enlist don't know any better?"

What you are failing to take into account is the class draft.

 
There you have it. We are poor, stupid, corrupt and immoral. Tell me again why I can't shoot them for treason?
 

[debk]

MOTHER F"ERs.....


These creatures would be the first ones screaming for protection against an enemy attack......

[BlueStateSaint]

These creatures would be the first ones screaming for protection against an enemy attack......

And the first ones screaming about how conservatives should be exterminated.

[ReaganForRushmore]

MOTHER F"ERs.....


These creatures would be the first ones screaming for protection against an enemy attack......

Remember when the Code Pink ladies wanted the Marines at the Berkley recruiting station to make "arrests" when counter protesters proved too much for their little minds?

[thundley4]

Remember when the Code Pink ladies skanks wanted the Marines at the Berkley recruiting station to make "arrests" when counter protesters proved too much for their little minds?

Fixed

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmie says"....it's immoral to willingly participate in such actions?"....Discussing morals from the group that has no morals. Yep, the "if it feels good do it" bunch....the "whatever floats your boat" gang.  

[Rebel]

Bonobo  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-24-09 10:03 PM

67. I don't. The govt. takes my money to support them no matter what I think of it.
   
I do NOT support them. I do not approve of any overseas conflict. I wish the military budget would be cut to a tiny fraction of what it is and I wish that we got out of the weapon making business.

**** the military. They take advantage of the poor and weak-minded to swell their ranks. **** them.

Oh, did I mention that we WEAKEN national security with our overseas entanglements, not strengthen it.
   

[JohnnyReb]

Hey Rebel, you colletor of fine art, that Bonobo is truly a work of ART....a master piece if I ever saw one.

[NHSparky]

They take advantage of the poor and weak-minded to swell their ranks.

I wonder if her head would explode if she realized I was neither?

[dutch508]

This morning's numbers:

Poll result (68 votes)  
My support of the troops is unconditional.  (29 votes, 43%) Vote
There are conditions that must be met in order for myself to support the troops.  (24 votes, 35%) Vote
Other (please explain)  (15 votes, 22%) Vote

57% to 43% against.

The Stranger (1000+ posts)       Mon Aug-24-09 09:59 PM
Response to Original message
65. I can't support a war crime. Neither should you.

 

Bonobo  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-24-09 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #73
75. Thanks, let's have lunch sometime
 You war-worshipping limp-dick assole.

Selatius (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-24-09 11:54 PM
Response to Original message
83. Coming from a family that lived and survived in Viet Nam during the war, I won't support any army...
 Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 11:55 PM by Selatius
that intentionally targets civilians and civilian infrastructure. I'm all for people enlisting to protect the country, but being deployed overseas to maintain a garrison in a country that did not attack us is something I can't support. That's not defense. That's aggression.

[Freeper]

I wonder if her head would explode if she realized I was neither?

They are just jealous because they know they never would have the courage to serve. So they demonize those with the guts to serve.

[Freeper]

The Stranger (1000+ posts)       Mon Aug-24-09 09:59 PM
Response to Original message
65. I can't support a war crime. Neither should you.

You support Obama and he is fighting the same "illegal wars" that Bush was.

[debk]

They take advantage of the poor and weak-minded to swell their ranks.

My kid wasn't raised "poor" or poorly for that matter. There's no way he's "weak-minded"....never has been (would have been easier to raise if he had been a bit).....and he sure as heck isn't stupid, dumb or any of the other "usual" Liberal put-downs.

And to think he "volunteered to protect and serve" these individuals....

[Rebel]

I'm sorry, I had to send another e-mail to Neal. This time, I couldn't pick one specific one out.

Neal, I wanted to send you another link like the one I sent last week that you talked about, but the DUmmies are in rare form. There are just so many to choose from. This is a section of my site dedicated to their idiocy. No, I'm not trying to promote it, just saying there are too many to list. I don't expect you to post my website. Hell, you'd probably crash it. Haha. Love ya Neal!

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?board=10.0

Neal's father was a retired USMC fighter pilot who fought in 3 wars in defense of this nation (WWII, Korea, Vietnam).

[AllosaursRus]

I think we need to be able to buy a tag to go along with our huntin' license in order to hunt these pricks and prickettes down and exterminate them!

This is TREASON, no ifs ands or buts! Maybe butts would be more appropriate!

[Rebel]

I think we need to be able to buy a tag to go along with our huntin' license in order to hunt these pricks and prickettes down and exterminate them!

This is TREASON, no ifs ands or buts! Maybe butts would be more appropriate!

Remember Ian? He posted a yellow ribbon that stated, "I **** the troops wives".

I would LOVE to get my hands on that SOB.

[Zathras]

They take advantage of the poor and weak-minded to swell their ranks.

If that was the case, wouldn't every member of the DUmp be in the military? After all, that's a collection of the most weak minded individuals on the planet today.

[dutch508]

Poll result (77 votes) 
My support of the troops is unconditional.  (33 votes, 43%) Vote
There are conditions that must be met in order for myself to support the troops.  (26 votes, 34%) Vote
Other (please explain)  (18 votes, 23%)

tonights numbers:  57% to 44% against.

Downtown Hound  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-25-09 11:53 AM
Response to Original message
98. My answer is quite simple
 Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 11:54 AM by Downtown Hound
I support the troops as human beings, not as soldiers. I am under no obligation to get behind them and cheer them on for participating in a war that I find morally reprehensible. Any soldier that tells me I have to get behind them for that, that I should shut up and not protest, or that if I don't support the war then I don't support them, can pretty much kiss my ass.

Now, that being said, I believe that our troops, ALL of our troops, deserve nothing but the best treatment when they return home. None of them should ever be homeless or hungry again, even if it means building public housing for all of them and the money to support them has to come out of my taxpayer's wallet for the rest of my life, I'm okay with that. Ironically, how many of these SUV driving, yellow ribbon waving, American flag worshiping dipshits that prance around all the time saying, "Support Our Troops!" really give a flying **** about the homeless ones they pass on the street everyday? They don't really care about the troops. All they care about is what the troops do for them and how they make them feel. The minute that Faux News is turned off they forget about the troops.

last post was at 11.53. Either they grew bored or they know we are watching and stopped posting.

 

[Airwolf]

The reason why many of our vets are homeless is because if the Congressional budget cuts to the VA and the military. The same budget cuts your pricks in Der Skimmers island keep demanding be made so that your sorry ****ed up lives can sit in Moms basement and suck the lifes blood from the Government while you get to post on that dreck web site how much you hate the troops and the country they defended in your place.

You have neither the guts nor the true compassion in your black little hearts to begin to understand what its like to serve. I'm betting that very very few of you have the mentality to grasp just how hard it is on those that day to day have to wonder if they are going to be coming home standing up or boxed in a coffin to their families. You assclowns shouldn't even share the same street as those homelss vets as the ywalk by and ask for help. Why didn't you help them? Feel a bit guilty? Was it because your cowardly ass couldn't gin up enough real love for your fellow man to drop some money in their hands as they stood their wondering if they could get enough food to make it one more day?

You simps are the perfect example why we should keep any liberal from getting a post higher then streetsweeper. All you do is bitch and whine while real people with drive and ambition provide you with the very freedoms you would deny those you hate and despise. They deserve far more then you can imagine. Some of those vets have seen their friends die and get maimed by the enemies of your country. Some like my late father spent years as a POW and later on had to suffer from their imprisonment. That is another thing your type couldn't attempt to imagine . The horror of having been kept a prisoner by an enemy that would just as soon kill you ,your family and all you know just to make the world theirs and in their image. You know the very kinds of people you support,The Nazi's or National Socialist or better yet the communist rulers of which ever country you think is a paradise compared to the one that gave the freedom to you to be a whiny little bitch in the first place.