Originally posted by kindm\'s
They have kids and are a family should they be denied the same protections under the law ? do they deserve to get the same treatment as anyone else who decides to spend their lives together. YES
Don\'t ask Don\'t tell is a military policy. It is not the law of the land.
Supporting our troops has nothing to do with supporting this president. If you really support our troops you would be trying to get them home. They were sent to Iraq to die under false pretences of an immediate threat of WMD. How many who died there believed they were doing the right thing ? How many have died in vain ? How many have died because of this lie we call Iraq. You can spin it all you want. This Presient lied to the American People in order for us to back a War in Iraq.
Also you are so hung up on the President visiting WTC after 9/11. Big deal. Why don\'t you ask this president that you love so much why him and the Bush family have been in business with the Bin Laden family for years ? Why not ask him why on 9/12, and 9/13 of 2001 when no americans were allowed to fly all plans grounded, was an airliner allowed to fly to multiple citys in the USA and pick up the Bin Laden Family and fly them out of the country ? Not once ever being questiond by any US official ?
So why he was at WTC making you feel better all of this other stuff was happening. Why don\'t you ask your beloved president that. Or why you ar at it why not ask him why he USED the deaths of all of those people and your friends to justify a WAR that he and his cronies were planning as soon as he took office. They wanted a way to go to Iraq! Hell, Paul O\'neill a former member of the CABINET said the guys a moron and that they were planning this since day 1. He even offers white house memos/documents to back it up.
Senator Joseph Biden said this week that GWB is for lack of a better term a Puppet. It is really Dick Cheney who is running things. It is Dick Cheney who the president takes his ques from and it is his opinion that the President values over all others.
And one last thing. It is easy to sit on the sidelines and say that a soliders death is a good one if it is to fight terrorism. You say that Military life wasn\'t for you that you were talked out of it. I wonder what arguments made you not do it ? Was it the idea of dying for someone else\'s ideals, was it having to take orders ? or was it that mommy and daddy had enough $$$$ that you didn\'t need it to afford college.
Don\'t ask don\'t tell should be a law. To sum up all your views, you are out of touch with reality.
As far as Cheney running things, Bush Jr.\'s Cabnit is pretty much the same as his Dad\'s. Its a wartime cabint. That should speak for itself.
I never said that a Soliders death is a good one. You said that, DO NOT put words in my mouth. More then 60% of the people at my job are ex-Military and they said a few things. Keep in mind, 99% of them voted for Bush and stand with him.
Ok, The whole Mommy and Daddy thing is so far from the truth. I have lived on my own for over 3 years NOW! Mommy and Daddy don\'t pay a penny. I have worked very hard in my life and I can afford some nice things. I support myself. Also I never went to College.