Bring Home The Troops!

Bringing The Troops Home

The other day while driving home from work I heard on the local radio station Hillary Clinton defend her position on Iraq and her support of the troops being brought home.

In that explanation she mentioned something in regard to bringing home the troops as part of her support and it seemed that she was ‘taking care of them’ by bringing them home.

Something inside reacted to that. My mind flashed to an earlier time. The time was what we now call The Vietnam Era. People then too said we support the troops by wanting to bring them home.

Accompanying this was usually the assurances that the speaker loved America, was for peace and they loved our troops.

For all of those that want to take care of our troops by bringing them home I suggest, don’t!

They don’t want you too, not the way you want. They want to come home on their own terms not yours. If they are willing to give up their lives for this cause then we must honor their wishes. Only then can one say they support our troops.

Why?

Let’s put it this way.

A friend or spouse’s birthday is coming up. They, over the course of the past year, while you were with them, expressed that if they had certain things it would make life easier.

When the birthday approaches you go out shopping for this friend or spouse. You see two things. One is just the thing they mentioned during the previous year, the other is a cool gift that you would really enjoy giving them.

Which to choose?

The person that decides to go for the cool gift is not giving something the friend needs or wants, they are giving what they imagine they would want.

The person that gives the gift that was mentioned by that friend or spouse is giving a gift that is wanted.

Can both people say with equal merit that they support their friend?

I think not.

I’m not fooled for a moment. Hilary doesn’t support our troops. Neither do those Democrats and Republicans that say the same thing about caring for our troops by wanting to bring them home without a success. It’s almost like a Trojan horse mentality.
I don’t know what’s said during strategy meetings for getting the liberal message out, but it must go something like this, “Always couch what you say with, I support our troops but I’m against the war”.

In that way no one will be able to say you are un American without the fence sitters saying, “Well now, wait a minute, they did say they support our troops, they just don’t like the way were are doing it.”

As long as they get the fence sitters to believe that, then it’s no longer sedition.

They should more honestly say, “I support our troops but I’m against winning the war”.

Then the argument becomes contradictory much like “I voted against it, before I voted for it.”

I guess all I’m trying to say is, “Don’t piss down my back and tell me its just rain.”