........to ask ourselves an important question. Who supports our troops? Is it someone that thinks it is a good thing for soldiers and sailors to be put in harms way, to fight an invisible enemy. Or is it me? Bring them home. Let the CIA deal with it.

I absolutely support our troops...without them we would not have the freedoms that we enjoy.....

WHEN I PUT IN MY THREE YEARS, 16 MONTHS IN KOREA I HOPED THAT WOULD BE THE LAST TIME ANYONE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO WAR, BUT IT WAS'NT. WE HAD VIETNAM AND NOW THIS WAR AND WE WILL NO DOUBT HAVE MORE IN THE FUTURE. WE MUST FIGHT THESE WAR'S TO KEEP THE FREEDOMS WE HAVE. I CAN NOT IMAGINE LIVING THE WAY SOME OF THESE COUNTRIES LIVE UNDER THE CONSTANT THREAT OF BEING BOMBED AND MURDERED JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE ARE TOLD UNDER THE THREAT OF TORTURE OR DEATH.

WHAT WE NEED IS A LEADER TO GET US OUT OF THERE AND LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT THEMSELVES.

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS.

GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.

That is one awesome sentiment, granpaw.

I have learned three things from this thread. One is that country girl will applaud any comment that she perceives as a conservative statement.
Secondly, while granpaws heart is in the right place, he quotes Gore Vidal, and gives him no credit.

Third, thanks to fordcpe. I don't see everything in black and white.

hmmmmmmmmmm.......what makes you think that? What statement did you make? I read a question...I answered it...

You made the statement, and then waved your little American Flag. Maybe you missed the point of this thread. I didn't ask, "do you support the troops?" My question is this. Do you support our troops because of a right wing ideology, like world domination? Or do you support our troops because you think that they should be defending our own borders? Either way, it's costly, and it means bigger government.

We'll get into the inconsistencies of conservatism ideology another day.

I think you like to make more of things than you should...I love to wave my flag, Im a proud American and I love and support our troops...no matter what.

The Preamble to the Constitution reads as follows:

We the people in order to form a more perfect union establish justice insure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Supporting the military by providing for the common defense is specifically mentioned in the preamble to the Constitution. As warfare progresses, so must our military. You don't show up to a gun fight with a stick. Yes it is expensive but it is granted by the original founding documents of our great nation. The most generous nation on the planet.

Granting healthcare, social security, unemployment compensation, industry bailouts, bank bailouts, insurance company bailouts, housing, food stamps, roads, bridges, police, fire, EMS, etcetera are NOT granted by our Constitution. Those latter listed "rights" are and should be States rights only as voted on by the individual States. The Federal Government has taken too much power away from the States at a much higher cost than Military. These other "rights" also are under funded and no longer have the funding necessary to survive.

These "inconsistencies" you mention are are the only consistent government function that is granted by the Constitution that has a direct financial cost. The others are free because of our military and their commitment to keep our country free and preserve those freedoms granted us when we seceded from England and the totalitarian rule of the King.

We have jerks like Dennis selling his vote so that his wife can stand beside the first lady for her cause....making us all vegetarians...lol

Thank you to all who served either in peacetime or war.

I am not a veteran and for reasons (good or bad) did not serve in the military.

My Father was in Korea, and my Uncle served for life in Korea and Viet Nam and beyond.

Thank you to all who have scrificed their freedoms in life to preserve us who did not serve our country.

I believe a soldier is a soldier is a soldier who greatly scrifices their freedom in peacetime or war for the betterment of all.

i think that people who continually point out there were no 'w.m.d.''s in iraq must not be master level chess players. that's thinking inside the box. right? i'll explain more perhaps another day.

Oh there were WMD's even the Clinton administration recognized this.

Those weapons are either buried deep in the desert or in Syria..........