In the recent showdown between congress and the Bush administration over the Iraq war spending bill, the Bush administration has quite plainly stated that to deny funding or put limits on war spending is equivalent to not "supporting our troops."
Ludicrous!
If Bush really "supported our troops" he would have never sent them into Iraq in the first place, on the most flimsy of evidence of WMDs (evidence which has since been repudiated over and over again.)
If Bush really "supported our troops" he would have personally made sure that troops returning from battle received the best care and medical treatment (Walter reed anyone?)
What the Bush and his administration are doing to congress and the American people is ransoming our troops, using them as collateral to extort money from the American people and put it in the hands of oil companies and military contractors.
He has sent our troops into a dangerous and unwinnable situation for nothing more than greed. And he would rather see them underfunded and ill-equipped rather than pull them out of Iraq and not receive his precious war funding.
It is shame that the media and politicians lay down for this blatant kind of reframing and spinning that the Bush administration is so deft at.
And it is a shame that Bush and his administration would sink so low as to use our troops safety as collateral rather than bite the bullet and bow to the will of the American people.
Originally Posted by NJM
