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Does supporting the troops mean sending them to war poorly provisioned?
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By Mike Cuenca | October 2, 2003
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On Sept. 29, the LA Times ran a piece by George Washington University
professor Jonathan Turley that described the frantic efforts of some
parents and spouses of US soldiers in Iraq to purchase modern body
armor to send to their loved ones in Iraq. Apparently, GW sent many of
our brave troops over there with 30-year-old, Vietnam-era flak jackets
that will not stop the bullets of the AK-47, the assault rifle most
commonly used by the Iraqis. At least some have died because of these
vests.
How
much more will the American people need to find out before accepting
that GW has been purposefully misrepresenting his commitment to our
armed forces? Now we know he sent them to war without proper protection
and then childishly, foolishly taunted their enemies, chirping "bring
'em on." He should be there himself, in a thin-skinned Humvee, wearing
one of those outdated flak jackets, breathing in that radioactive dust
from the depleted uranium armor and munitions.
So what happened
to all of those "Support the troops" yard signs here in Lawrence? Most
of them have disappeared. Have we stopped caring about the troops now
that the war has quickly degenerated into the urban quagmire that many
of us said it would become? If you really care about our troops, you
would not stand for their lives being wasted for political gain. I hope
that those of you who attacked the anti-war activists as unpatriotic
are starting to see just who was truly supporting our troops.
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