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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: Troops don't support the troops! |
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We've been told ad nauseum that if you support pulling out of Iraq, you don't support the troops (coughbullcoughshit). So, I guess the troops don't support the troops either! At least, not former troops.
Troops Cheer Call For Iraq Withdrawal
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Governor's Call For U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq Greeted With Standing Ovation At National Guard Conference
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 26, 2007
"The daily death toll of Americans and their allies has caused irreparable anguish here in Puerto Rico, and throughout the country. The same could be said for the people of Iraq."
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila
(AP) A call by Puerto Rico's governor for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen.
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila said Saturday that the U.S. administration has "no new strategy and no signs of success" and that prolonging the war would needlessly put guardsmen in harm's way.
"The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world," he said at the opening of the 129th National Guard Association general conference. "Clearly, a new war strategy is required and urgently."
Acevedo said sending more troops to Iraq would be a costly blunder.
...Col. David Carrion Baralt, the Guard's top official in the U.S. Caribbean territory, said Acevedo received a standing ovation.
"Maybe the (officers) were not expecting those kinds of comments, but having a dialogue is the point of conferences like these," Carrion said by phone.
The nonpartisan National Guard Association represents nearly 45,000 current and former Air and Army National Guard officers and petitions Congress for resources... |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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I couldn't agree more. I support the troops by bringing them home alive now~ not in body bags later! Toss the squatter out of the White House!! No blood for oil! (sorry, flashbacks of McMaster Peace Camp  ) |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Harpeau wrote: |
| I couldn't agree more. I support the troops by bringing them home alive now~ not in body bags later! |
End this thing. End it now. |
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