Cheney to Congress: Only Way to Support Troops is to Allow Them to Die
filed on Monday, March 12, 2007 at 3:58:51 PM CST

Vice President Dick Cheney issued a challenge to Congress to encourage representatives to back the financial support necessary for the remainder of this year's troop actions.  Cheney was quoted as saying, "Anyone can say they support the troops and we should take them at their word, but the proof will come when it's time to provide the money."

As if the only way to support our troops is to provide financial backing to carry on this ludicrous shell-game of a war that we're still involved in.  Personally, I think arguing to bring our troops home is a far better sign of support than anything else.  Of course, the antiquated war-monger would disagree.

"When members speak not of victory but of time limits, deadlines and other arbitrary measures, they are telling the enemy simply to watch the clock and wait us out," he claims.  Clearly he's upgraded his eyeglasses for a newer, rose-colored pair, because from where I and many other people sit, the word "victory" isn't one that will be applied to Iraq any time soon.

Let us not forget that it wasn't Iraq who blew up the World Trade Center.  Someone might want to ask why the Taliban still exists in Afghanistan, and maybe wonder where Osama Bin Laden is.

According to Fox News.com:

Cheney warned that terrorists would continue to attack the United States and its friends if they saw them retreating in the face of continued deadly insurgent attacks.

Funny how our focus these past years hasn't really been on those who attacked us then, but rather on a war based on fictitious information, bad intelligence (and I'm not just talking about Bush's appauling IQ), and a cascade of events that should have left us all reeling.

I support our troops.  That doesn't mean I have to support the continued financing of a war we shouldn't have started in the first place, and it certainly doesn't mean I have to smile and nod at the evening news when the next body counts come rolling in and I hear some parent having to justify the death with the words, "He died defending our country," or "He died as he wanted to."

Our country was not in danger of being attacked by Iraq.

And in general, no one wants to die.