Don Williams: Who Really Supported the Troops?

[Bertha Venation]

Who really supported troops?
By DON WILLIAMS, New Millennium Writings
November 7, 2003

So just who truly supported the troops? Those who sent them to Iraq with no clear plan for bringing them home again or those who warned, don't go there, it's a quagmire?

Donald Rumsfeld once said with a wink and a grin that you can't have a quagmire in the desert - it's too dry - but if this is not a quagmire, then give me another word for it. We can't move forward, we can't back out. We pour money and human lives into it, and it only gets worse.

Six months after George W. Bush leapt from a jet plane onto an aircraft carrier and declared victory, the number of dead American soldiers accelerates towards the 400 mark. The wounded are numbered in the thousands, many with life-threatening lacerations and burns, others with mutilations they will carry to their graves.

Estimates of dead Iraqis range from a few thousand to more than 30,000 - the Pentagon pretends to have no hard numbers on the Iraqi dead - and the killing grows again with each passing week. It's hard to imagine how this war can ever end.

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[Ivote]

1. TRY "QUICKSAND"

It keeps pulling you down, deeper and deeper.
Since you can't have a quagmire in the desert.

[Bertha Venation]

3. Yep.

Back in April, I cut a cartoon out of the Washington Post and put it on the fridge. It's Rummy in a small car surrounded by "children" -- reporters with microphones, all crying out "IS IT VIETNAM YET? IS IT VIETNAM YET?" It looked like it might be obsolete by May, but unfortunately, now . . . .

cartoon at this link http://members.optushome.com.au/thesquiz/cagle.htm

[KC21304]

2. Thanks for this wonderful article.

I am passing it on.

[Skittles]

4. those of us against the war who are now sending care packages

WE are the ones who "support the troops".

[tabasco]

5. Great article, thanks.

Nothing pisses me off more than these so-called patriots who want to watch a good war on tv, to make them feel proud to be Americans. This chickenhawk administration doesn't have a clue what war is really like, and they could care less for the troops.

[Mokito]

6. As my signature says,

Or as the great humanist Erasmus said; "Dulce bellum inexpertise", "Sweet is the war to them who didn't experience him".

[Jonte_1979]

7. Bertha

Please limit your excerpts to 4 paragraphs.

Thanks!

Jonathan -
DU moderator