The Left has bestowed “ultimate moral authority” on Rep. John Murtha because of his honorable and heroic service in the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
But this same “utlimate moral authority” is not extended to veterans such as Sen. John McCain and Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) by the most Liberal of the Left.
If Murtha gets such a wide latitude, than what say you to the words of Rep. Johnson?
Rep. Johnson spent 2500 days as a POW in vietnam. That’s nearly 7 years, more than half of which was spent in solitary confinement with leg irons shackled to his legs in a dark and dirty 3′x8′ cell.
When Rep. Johnson says:
We POWs were still in Vietnam when Washington cut the funding for Vietnam. I know what it does to morale and mission success. Words can not fully describe the horrendous damage of the anti-American efforts against the war back home to the guys on the ground.
Our captors would blare nasty recordings over the loud speaker of Americans protesting back home…tales of Americans spitting on Vietnam veterans when they came home… and worse.
We must never, ever let that happen again.
The pain inflicted by your country’s indifference is tenfold that inflicted by your ruthless captors.
I believe him.
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How is the Left reacting to the powerful words of Rep. Johnson? Comments like this one from the YouTube site are pretty representative of what I’ve read elsewhere:
Using your story to compare to the current Iraq situation was a flawed one, but nice shot at our emotions, old man. I respect what you did for our country but sit the fuck down and let the people who know what they’re doing take charge.
Just another example of a lying Liberal claiming to “respect” our military in one breath, then telling them to sit down and shut up in the next.
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The US military serves the American people. If the American people don’t want them to fight a war, that is the final word.
It doesn’t get any simpler.
That “old man” that they told to sit the “fuck down” sacrificed more for this country than those assholes who made that You Tube video ever will.
And, as far as who the military serves, may I respectfully submit that they obey the orders of the President of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_enlistment
Just because the Democrats won the majority, doesn’t give democrats any right to believe their will is the final word, but I defer to the actual military guys for their take on this.
Thanks for the link, Dianne. And you are correct, and Preston couldn’t by any more wrong on who the US Military “serves”.
When I took this oath:
That oath, nor the Constitution that I swore to defend, say anything about the military” serving the citizens of the US.
US Citizens are the receipients and beneficiaries of the freedoms and safety that the US Military secures and defends for them. But the Military does not serve the citizens.
The President — and only the President — has the Constitutional authority to direct and command the troops. Not 100 armchair-general Senators. Not 435 armchair-general Representatives.
Congress authorized this war. That’s their Constitutinal role. For them now to try to command the war by cutting off funds for the troops that the President is authorized to deploy is cowardly and likely to proove unconstitutional.
That a growing number of US citizens and leaders don’t have the stomach to win this very real war against a very real enemy is sickening to me. But make no mistake, that does not diminish the fact that we must win this war because our enemies will not back off, and they will attack us again if we do not defeat them.
There is plenty of precedent to prove that wrong.
To be more explicit- as is indicated in the Preamble, the Constitution is a document written on behalf of ‘We the People’. If citizens of the US through our government say that we don’t wish American soldiers to die on foreign soil any more it is our prerogative to say so. If it hurts the moral of those soldiers for them to follow that order, so be it- I’m sure their families will prefer these soldiers to arrive home alive.
Preston, I think Rep. Ron Paul agrees with you: