I frequently see people expressing the slogan 'Support Our Troops'. It isn't always clear what is meant by that.
If you mean respecting them for doing their jobs well under difficult and often deadly conditions, and appreciating the extreme stress, the loneliness, the danger, and the sacrifice they undergo-- yes, by all means, they have my support.
But if you mean supporting a wrongfully started, needless war that is doing harm to American interests, not good, then I say that is not supporting our troops at all, that is perpetuating poor policy and risking more needless deaths and injuries.
I support our troops by calling for immediate withdrawal from the occupation of Iraq.
And I support our troops by calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, for violating the Constitution and international and US law.
Traditionally, Americans have fought to preserve our freedom. No Americans should be ordered to fight to glorify a President who seeks to take our freedom away, who disdains the Constitution, cares nothing for the will of the people, and wants America to be an empire, not a republic.
I hope the distinction is clear.
