Perspective on support

There's a lot of rhetoric being thrown around by the right, which includes the mainstream media, that Democrats want the US to be defeated, hate the troops, and all that typical drivel that we've come to expect from them.

Here are a few inconvenient facts.

• The Bush Administration said that the war against Iraq would take much less than six months, and we're now in the fifth year


• Former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was embarrassed years ago during a photo op with the troops, because a soldier's truthful statement was leaked into the media. He pointed out that soldiers are forced to scavenge trash dumps in Iraq to try to find armor because they are sent into the line of fire without adequate body armor or vehicles. Years later, this problem has still not been addressed by the Bush Administration.


• Dubya's 2007 budget did not allocate any funds for the war against Iraq or the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. There is NO reason for this, other than to make a political spectacle of necessitating an emergency budget, currently being debated. I don't know about you, but I'm not surprised that there are still wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - but apparently Bush completely forgot when he created his budget.


• Congress's proposed emergency spending budget includes funding for 100% of dubya's war plans.


• Congress's proposed emergency spending budget includes matters of national defense, such as implementing the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for fighting terrorism. Bush has declared that such issues are pork and it's disgraceful for Congress to want such items to protect the US.


• Dubya has ridiculed Congress for breaking to meet with their constituents. The truth is that he holds the all-time record for number of vacation days for a US President.


• There's more, but that'll do...