Korean War Vet proposes duct tape solution
When Sen. Joe Biden was stumping a very small audience in Sumter,SC, he asked them for Iraq solutions. A 79 year old Korean War veteran suggested duct tape:"But when Biden turned to the audience for questions, John Stevens, a 79-year-old Air Force disabled veteran of Korea and Vietnam, told Biden he had a better solution.
The war's being lost in Congress by the people who give aid and comfort to the enemies that are killing our troops," he said.
Stevens then said he had his own plan: "I call it the duct tape solution. You take a roll of duct tape and you put it over the mouths of the people that are criticizing our troops and also causing the enemy to continue attacking our troops and blowing them up."
Story at Myrtile Beach Online, noticed at Don Surber's site.
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Can you give me a documented example of a Congressman criticizing the troops?
Or, can you tell me how it is, specifically, that Congressional debate makes insurgents attack US forces? I don't think I understand.
Chuck--I've missed your obfuscatory observations. Have you been on Spring Break? I'd say yes, constant bad mouthing and lying about the war and second guessing the military leaders and loading up the appropriations bill with billions in pork is criticizing the troops. The message loud and clear in case you are deaf is, "you guys are fools." Sounds like criticism to me, and I'm not sure why you play games with words. The troops get it; why don't you?
It's like telling your best friend you're not criticizing his wife, but he'd be a lot better off if he weren't married. How do you think she would interpret that?
So that's a "no" to the first one then?
Criticism of the President and his commanders is just that. So unless dissent and disagreement are immoral during a time of war, and idea that such long-haired America-haters as Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower found repugnant, I think your conflation of the two is just wrong.
Is the president the Pope during war? Is he infallible or infallible by association lest we endanger our military?
Second, Congress has never second guessed anyone. They have a Constitutional obligation to exercise oversight over the executive branch in all kinds of matters, military appropriations, intelligence and finances. Upto and including paying for war. There are several examples throught our history of Congress threatening to cut off funding for a military action in order to end it, Republican and Democrat Congresses alike.
In fact Sens. like Lindsey Graham and John McCain threatened to do so to President Clinton with respect to Kosovo. Yet they now claim that such things are wrong.
Lastly, two polls conducted (one by either the Army Times or Stars and Stripes) shows that a healthy majority of active-duty soldiers surveyed did NOT equate opposition to the war or the President as opposition to them.
Chuck, I'm a kind and generous person, but if you're going to write 4 or 5 paragraphs on my blog, you'll get deleted. For your own lengthy biases, you'll need to set up your own blog. Then I'll visit you.
That's unfortunate. I thought you had the courage of your convictions. I'll bug off.
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