Last week, in the airport, I asked a soldier going to Iraq who he and his
friends were supporting for president. He said:
"We do not listen to one single second of politics. They all lie. They lied us into this. They will lie about getting us out of here. All we worry about each day is taking care of each other so that we won't die here and have no one back home even notice or care that we died."
I can tell you that my son, who was in the Navy for 16 years, and now
is a civilian working for the Navy in Italy, thinks McNuts is an ass! He also constantly says Shrub is the worst President in History! He voted for Obama via absentee.
4. My 19 year old godson is stationed in the Korengal Valley in NE Afghanistan
and that's pretty much what he thinks about politics. Although I did tell him that he should be thankful to the Democrats for the New GI Bill that he will enjoy when he gets out and how both Bush and McCain opposed it. Our troops: brave and many are willingly and ignorantly uninformed and proud of it (as far as being uniformed goes, they are not too much different than millions of Americans).
6. They don't trust politicians because their experience over the last
seven years has taught them that politicians can not be trusted.
Who lied them into war? Who supported the war and now does not? Who failed to make the American public believe in their sacrifice? Who manipulated them for political purposes in 2003 and 2004? Who is trying to manipulate them for political purposes in 2008?
Bush and Cheney betrayed our troops and many democrats have switched positions on the invasion of Iraq and now our troops don't know who to trust except each other.
8. That is actually true for combat units headed into warzones....
Politics means nothing until someone walks up and tells you it's over. Neither Obama or McCain means anything to these guys at this point unless they see them on TV saying they're headed home.
Simple as that. It's all about survival in a jungle/desert/beach/etc
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