Last week, in the airport, I asked a soldier going to Iraq who he and his

[Laura PourMeADrink]

friends were supporting for president. He said:

"We do not listen to one single second of politics. They all lie. They
lied us into this. They will lie about getting us out of here. All we
worry about each day is taking care of each other so that we won't die
here and have no one back home even notice or care that we died."

[fed_up_mother]

1. Ouch! How sad.

[alison]

2. Sadly, that's pretty much the same response my bf got when he asked his brother the same question.

[napi21]

I can tell you that my son, who was in the Navy for 16 years, and now

is a civilian working for the Navy in Italy, thinks McNuts is an ass! He also constantly says Shrub is the worst President in History! He voted for Obama via absentee.

[Cha]

3. WE care a lot.. In fact we protested

before the War On Iraq. We care enough to elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

[elocs]

4. My 19 year old godson is stationed in the Korengal Valley in NE Afghanistan

and that's pretty much what he thinks about politics. Although I did tell him that he should be thankful to the Democrats for the New GI Bill that he will enjoy when he gets out and how both Bush and McCain opposed it. Our troops: brave and many are willingly and ignorantly uninformed and proud of it (as far as being uniformed goes, they are not too much different than millions of Americans).

[undeterred]

5. The only person I know personally who has been to Iraq said

"I wouldn't trust Rumsfeld to park my car". He's very much a gentleman and that's about as nasty a thing as he would say about someone to a woman.

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. That reminds me of the military line that Rumsfeld had the longest screwdriver in the world.

Because if you wanted to tighten a screw on your vehicle in Iraq, you had to get Rumsfeld's permission.

[theothersnippywshrub]

6. They don't trust politicians because their experience over the last

seven years has taught them that politicians can not be trusted.

Who lied them into war? Who supported the war and now does not? Who failed to make the American public believe in their sacrifice? Who manipulated them for political purposes in 2003 and 2004? Who is trying to manipulate them for political purposes in 2008?

Bush and Cheney betrayed our troops and many democrats have switched positions on the invasion of Iraq and now our troops don't know who to trust except each other.

[RollWithIt]

8. That is actually true for combat units headed into warzones....

Politics means nothing until someone walks up and tells you it's over. Neither Obama or McCain means anything to these guys at this point unless they see them on TV saying they're headed home.

Simple as that. It's all about survival in a jungle/desert/beach/etc

[RagAss]

9. He has certanly earned the right to state this opinion.....n/m