Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Frank Reid
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 09:58 am

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Frank Reid to The Lizard Master on Thu Sep 29 2005 07:25 pm

 >  > you don't want to go against our troops?
 >  >
 >  > That's what doesn't make sense.  And that my friend is "patently inane."
 > 
 > People bandy about that "support" word so freely and without the least
 > consideration of what it really means.  Tell me how you "support" our
 > troops?  Do you lobby your representatives to provide all the necessary
 > materials and funding they need, without qualification, to win the war?
 > Do you ensure their (many) positive accomplishments are highlighted by
 > the media or even in your discussions with friends?  Do you, perhaps,
 > make the more significant sacrifice and join forces to fight alongside?
 > Think for a moment how a soldier would like you to support them and ask
 > yourself if that's what you're doing.

I sent my Maxim Magazines over there.  What have you done?

 > Soldiers don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, or that you
 > disagree with the political processes that put them in harm's way in the
 > first place.  In fact, they put their own lives at risk to ensure your
 > continued freedom to differ politically.  However, you need to draw the
 > line between those political processes that occur on comfortable chairs
 > here at home and the military processes that mean the difference between
 > life and death on the battlefield.
 > 
 > Now that we're in this war, there should be NO American with any other
 > agenda than our victory and safe return.
 > 

There is no question of that.  How do you define victory?  What if this goes on
forever?  That wouldn't be supporting the troops.

---TLM

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