Support or Troops but not their mission?

This one is from Mike L.

My son came home from patrolling the roads and cities of Iraq in October, he’s back and starting his second year there. No you won’t see him as an agenda tool on 60 minutes and he’s not one of the 1500 soldiers that signed the petition against the war. Almost all of the soldiers in Iraq support their mission. In communication he talks about the new schools, medical facilities, power stations and roads that we have put in place in many areas of Iraq. Most of these facilities and services have been down going back many years and often, they never had the services. The people in most areas are friendly and getting friendlier, they want us to stay because we give them the security they didn’t have and they know what will happen once we leave. He says you can tell by the looks in the peoples eyes when the enemy is lurking about, its a look you can’t forget. Thinking about the mantra, Support the soldier but not the war I find it to ring rather shallow. If I would have told my son “Welcome home son, We support you but not what you do” He would have looked me in the eyes and said “What the hell are you talking about, you weren’t there, I was, so how can you say you don’t support the mission?”. Our soldiers are well aware of the media and left’s propaganda over here and they are well aware that it is politically motivated, after all for many in our country everything is about politics. I started paying a lot of attention to this war the early summer of 2005 knowing my son was going there. Things weren’t bad, Americans were supporting the war but our political operatives were worried, after all mid-term elections were only a year away and the support of the war was disturbing to them. That’s when you started to hear mantra’s that their PR guys told them to say, they shouted “NAZI’S, GULAG’S, THEY ARE SPREADING TERROR, ILLEGAL WAR, QUAGMIRE, JUST LIKE VIET NAM” repeated at nausea by our main stream media, the drumbeat was deafening. They were painting our fighting men and women as barbarians all over again, why not, it worked for Viet Nam. I along with hundreds of thousands of parents watched in horror as the number soldiers KIA started to go up, the media people were almost falling over themselves so they could be the first to break the latest body count. Many deaths were reported as “teasers” before the evening report. What’s the bottom line, when America’s soldiers are in harms way, to embolden our enemy is treason plain and simple, the debate was held before the war and the vote was taken. Once you commit troops in battle you shut up. This lie crap was floated by political operatives who needed wiggle room, nothing more. Political gain is not worth American lives AGAIN. Want want a parallel with Viet Nam, the parallel is we have people in this country once again doing the bidding of our enemy and Soldiers are suffering needless deaths. All for politics, disgusting. When you are at the Viet Nam memorial take a look at it, how many names are there for political gain? Ask Jane Fonda how many of those names are there because she emboldened our enemies. TOO MANY!!!
Unlike Viet Nam, our soldiers are watching. When politically motivated reports are on the mess hall TV’s they boo. Our Viet Nam vets didn’t know this crap was going on back here, they found out in the airports when they returned. Pathetic.
I’m heading out the door and heading for D.C. I go there for four reasons. Once again to honor our fallen hero’s, protect our monuments from radical groups, once again thank our living Viet Nam hero’s and welcome them home and to show Support for or Troops AND their Mission, after all they are watching.