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By: The Family Guy

The Family Guy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:16:18 +0000

How is the Afghan war about terror? The Taliban did not attack us, they simply harbored people who did, and are now harbored by other nations. Also, we are no longer hunting terrorists, we are now changing our strategy to provide a shield to the Afghan population from the nomadic Taliban… a shield made of US troops. Why do you think the death toll is rising so sharply? It will rise much more before we are done.

Afghanistan poses no further threat to us, and what ever Al Queda camps they create could be easily handled by small unit actions, bombing, drones, and missiles. We are into something totally new now, I’m not sure exactly what yet, but I expect more blood to flow.

By: The Family Guy

The Family Guy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:03:32 +0000

Troll the airports? Huh?

It is also possible to disagree with the use of law enforcement, but agree that the cops have a tough and dangerous job. Same goes for soldiers.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:33:04 +0000

I believe the calls from the left for withdrawals from Afghanistan (which I, as a liberal, believe are wrong) would qualify as “Democrats still outraged at the loss of life.” IMHO, they are misguided in their understanding of the Afghanistan and Iraq war as part of the same “war on terror” which they are not. The Iraq war was never about terror. The Afghanistan war is.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:30:14 +0000

Yes, FG, it wasn’t you, but some other conservative who hated the cops a month ago or so for tracking criminals out of Badger Gun. So conservatives love the cops when it’s convenient, but not so much when “interfering” with their second amendment rights or their right to troll for anonymous male sex in the MSP airport…

And let’s not pretend that George Bush loved the troops so much that he had no reticence about playing with their lives as if they were pawns in his sick game of chess that was the Iraq war.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:03:47 +0000

“And your generalization about “liberals don’t like police and soliders” is, like most generalizations, completely wrong and misguided and frankly offensive.”

I have been a part-time soldier for 20 years and in my anecdotal view, 7 out of 10 liberals (i work in liberal circles) have an active dislike of those in the military. I don’t let it be known professionally that I am I am a reservist. I have had no such negative inclination from you and I appreciate your support. But I know you have been around enough liberals to know that this generalization has some merit.

By: Jack Lohman

Jack Lohman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:46:12 +0000

But no-more-coffins began under Bush, if I recall the dates correctly. My objection is that we broadcast the American dead but not the enemy dead, though I generally agree with you that Obama is getting a free ride from MSM (as he is on many issues).

By: The Family Guy

The Family Guy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:33:50 +0000

You miss the point, Jack. The call for coffins was politics. They made Bush look bad, so we wanted them on the front page. The death toll made Bush look bad, front page again. It wasn’t out of concern for the troops, it was political games. Now we have the President we wanted…no more coffins, no more daily count of the dead, no more protests, even as we escalate the Afghan conflict to massive proportions. Remember how Bush was letting soldiers die so corporations could profit? Halliburton and Blackwater are still reaping huge profits from all this. Why don’t we hear that anymore? Don’t those lives matter now? If you stand behind the soldiers, it should concern you equally now as then, but I’m not seeing that even mentioned anymore. Am I wrong? Are the Democrats still outraged at the loss of life in a needless war? Please, show me I’m wrong. Nothing would make me happier.

By: Jack Lohman

Jack Lohman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:09:23 +0000

The call for coffins has been changed to a family decision… some opt in, some opt out. I support that.

By: The Family Guy

The Family Guy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:43:27 +0000

What exactly don’t I get? I can show you quite substantively how many liberals and DNC politicians ignore the needs of the military, and even show them public scorn. You don’t actually deny that, do you?

Really Dan, what happened to the protesters, the call for coffins on the front page and the daily tally of the dead? What happened to bring the troops home, and Cindy Sheehan’s shanty town? Don’t you folks care about that stuff anymore now that BO is in the house?

Cmon Dan, a little honesty on your part might be in order rather than just huffing and puffing that I am wrong. Perhaps you care about soldiers, you seem to imply that you do. If so, where is your outrage at what has been happening to them the last 6 months in Afghanistan? Where did it go? Show me something to prove I’m wrong rather than just dismissing what you don’t agree with. I’ll be waiting…