Everyone Supports US Troops Except….

Turns out, everyone in the United States supports our troops in Iraq, with the exception of the Department of Defense, the Pentagon and the Bush administration. All that high-decibel hysterical shrieking from the Republican Party about Iraq war dissenters not supporting the troops in Iraq is an unsuccessful effort to outshout the increasing evidence that our own Pentagon and warmongers in the White House have not supported our troops. On Monday, a Washington Post article, “Thousands of Army Humvees Lack Armor Upgrade”, related how badly equipped our soldiers in Iraq have been and will be through this coming summer. Today, an editorial in the New York Times, “Not Supporting Our Troops” makes the same assertion. It cannot be said often enough: The Bush administration has short-changed and cheated our troops every step of its blunder through Iraq. As the NYT says this morning, “It’s bad enough that these soldiers are being asked to risk their lives without President Bush demanding that Iraq’s leaders take any political risks that might give the military mission at least an outside chance of success. But according to an article in The Washington Post this week, at least some of the troops will be sent out in Humvees not yet equipped with FRAG Kit 5 armor. That’s an advanced version designed to reduce deaths from roadside bombs, which now account for about 70 percent of United States casualties in Iraq.” The United States is planning to resettle at least 5,000 Iraqi refugees in the US by this coming summer. This is as it should be considering the United States illegally and unnecessarily attacked Iraq and brought down a hell on earth on innocent Iraqis. However, for the United States not to properly equip its soldiers and not to properly treat its wounded war veterans is the modus operandi of fascists. The entire population of the United States respects and supports its soldiers except for the criminally insane men who started the war in Iraq. And it's that criminally insane faction that is determined to keep on marauding and killing in Iraq because, presumably, that's what real men do.