It appears that Senator Harry Reid and Senator Carl Levin both have a problem in thanking the troops for a successful surge which they said wouldn’t work. The shameful part of this story is that they (Both Reid and Levin) still say the surge didn’t work. Even Obama was smart enough to acknowledge the surge had some success.
Senator Carl Levin is Michigan’s Senator. He’s never served one day in the United States Military although he is the chairman of the Armed Forces Committee. It’s funny how lefties appoint a troop hater to be in charge of the Armed Forces committee. Senator Harry Reid also never served a day in the military.
Both Senators are the most anti-troop people in the hollowed halls of Congress. Both Senators sleep easy sending our soldiers into battle in harm’s way but lack the courage or guts to support them and their mission.
To really see how wrong both Senators are, you have to have read the soldier’s creed. It says “I will bear true faith and allegiance to my superiors and my government.” Soldiers hope politicians will do the right thing by them. They hope that if they die on the battlefield, they will be taken home to be buried. They hope that if they are captured, the government will do everything they can to get them released. They also hope their government supports them which is the VERY least they can do since they are the ones that sent them into the battle in the first place! Currently with the Democrats as the majority, they don’t have that. What they have are politicians who have threatened to make sure they don’t have the equipment they need to go to war and survive. They have politicians who’d love to cut the funding on them thus getting them killed in action. I think the Soldier’s Creed needs to be rewritten to say how things really are between our do-nothing congress and our troops.
5 responses to “Troop Hating Senators”
jonolan
September 23rd, 2008 at 19:26
The actual Oath of Enlistment covers that sad situation:
As you can see the current sad state of affairs is already addressed in the oath I and many others have proudly sworn over the years.
lonniewalker
September 24th, 2008 at 00:14
Yes I’m very familiar with the oath as I took it 4 times. I just think it’s a sad day when the “Leaders” of this country attempt to bastardize the military. In the old days they did it with insinuations. Now days it’s very open and very blatant.
Democrats hold the military in contempt instead of supporting it. They hate our soldiers and show it daily. The kooks seem to think that we don’t need a military but if we have to have one it should be non-functional. I think 9/11 proves these nuts wrong and there are consequences for letting the military go down the gutter. Am I wrong?
Lonnie
jonolan
September 24th, 2008 at 00:42
NO, you’re not wrong. That’s why I highlighted parts of the oath we took.
lonniewalker
September 24th, 2008 at 04:41
Yes, I know you were making a point to the left who say we had a choice whether or not to go to war. We both know that wouldn’t work out well for either one of us. LOL. We’d have gotten charged with desertion/AWOL.
Even though I’m retired and have been since 2003, I still am sickened by the left’s attitude towards the troops.
Lonnie
lonniewalker
September 24th, 2008 at 20:59
I had another thought this morning. I’m actually surprised the hard left hasn’t re-written the history books about the manner that the US become the home of the free and the brave although I’m pretty sure it’s coming. Because I’m sure they’d attempt to rub the soldier completely out of our history and attempt to say that the reason we have our freedoms is because a bunch of politicians wrote the Declaration of Independence.
I already had one hard leftie try to convince me that if it wasn’t for Democrats that we’d still be under Great Britian. I’m making that a research project. I’m going to get every name on the Declaration of Independence and see what party they belonged to.
I still say George Washington was a wise man because he refused to have a party affiliation and said that having a party system wasn’t a good idea because it would create problems in the government. Low and behold, our do-nothing congress has not proved him wrong.
Lonnie
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