Comments on: Soldiers Support …. Obama?

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:51:02 +0000

Well I don’t know about this reporter but I know my husband is in Iraq and my brother just came from there this past Spring. They both voted McCain. They both feel they need to finish what they started if we pull out the people there will not trust us. They are starting to trust us. We don’t hear that in the news we just hear all the bad things that happen. We have to take the good with the bad. If we pull out it will be a waste of our time and money! Of course I want my husband home and he wants to come home..but he knows what he has/wants to do for our country! Maybe we shouldn’t have been there in the first place but we should atleast finish what we started. I am so proud of both my brother and my husband for serving our country.

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:45:46 +0000

I also would like to hear what they think of calls for assasination from the republican psychotic fringe. An act of terrorism they are calling for by saying “kill him” or “off with his head”

Are they fighting for this? is this what they are fighting for? for the united states to be tearing apart at home. mccain if something happens to obama i am holding this party responsible.

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:37:56 +0000

Here is what i think, and admittedly never served. I think there are people in the military who do support obama not the majority or none that are really willing to question the pres or mccain idea of leadership. however i am not really willing to believe that that members of the military are coming out for obama in droves. Thats impossible. However

mccain not getting money compared to obama where is the enthusiasm. part of me thinks the military is tired of politics. Dont forget they are watching out for washington. if they arent giving money to mccain they dont think mccain will win plain and simple. they’ll support him and vote for him, but there is lack of confidence showing even from die hard republicans like gingrich, and william kristol.
Hell joe scarborough sounds doubtful.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:28:01 +0000

question was it the republicans or democrats who decided after desert storm to downsize the military? So beth why do you feel a soldier has to vote republican if he understands the mission, see i must ask what mission, i have fought numerous wars, what is the mission? Free Iraq from the greatest dictator of all time or weapons of mass destruction, or was it because iraq attacked america. Ok i lost a lot of freinds and the only enemy i see in iraq is the IED. Those were bplanted by iraqis who were discouraged because we stayed. I honor their sacrifice daily trying to understand and cope with the fact that in the end iraq will never change. They do not want democratic rule being forced on them. They only know one way and that is violence. So i ask who have we defeated, remember iraq is made up of 3 tribal factions which represents islamic countries throughout the middle east. So when we shoot mohammed, which is a trib name we anger everyone in that tribe. Then they want revenge. People in the service support John Mcain because they like war…. I do not want to fight enemies we can’t see. Oh and guess what else, it look like to me republicans for the last 8 years were wrong. The iraqis wanted us out from the start they think we americans are liars becuase we went from liberators to occupiers. It was 2004 when things went wrong for us because strategy was wrong. So beth please educate me on what is so great about any republican right now start with reagan and come forward. You might find out that we would not be fighting today if they would have made better choices as president.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:18:25 +0000

beth it depends on where you are station and what you do, talk to combat arms they will give you a different opinion.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:14:27 +0000

oh i forgot to add, it was reagan who negotiated with the terrorist and tried to cove that up. I think that started the problem we have now not clinton. See republicans to have a very strange history when it comes to presidents. Noone likes to talk about those.
See it is funny we went to iraq to fight terrorist yet we had terroristic acts for decades in lynching, church bombings, kidnapping but american didn’t want to come to those who needed aid within our own country and like now i read an article on race dealing with the soccer moms vs black mothers, i thought that was very unfair because it is saying whites will not vote for obama because of prejudices. I say just like during world war 2 and korea america still haven’t gotten past racism even in our military. Wow I think we should be trying to resolve our own economic and social problems before we can tell others how to live.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:03:30 +0000

in reply to Sergioe
I think you all are out of touch with reality.
I support the mission and my troops yet i find it hard to believe in a 6 yr waste of time like iraq. The saudis still haven’t paid our country for the first desert storm, and we as soldiers are wanting to back a candidate just because he was a pow. Last time i checked that doesn’t qualify him to run a country, lets face reality what does the war in iraq have to do with 911. There is not one supporting link. Truth be told those hijackers were not iraqis. Data showed also that AQI didn’t exsist until we occupied. Now I like others serve this country, but come on this war is making rich people richer with contract jobs and the only reason a soldier likes being in iraq study shows is for the extra money. Oh and look at this we defeated who, I bet you could not even tell me who the real enemy in iraq is. Hey, democrat or republican noone can deny this, WE NEED TO GET OUT OF IRAQ. maybe we will stop running blind. Why are Soldiers supporting Obama. Everyone i talk to in this military supports him because they are tires of republican lies. Like someone said Reagan was the greatest president. How I remember those years, I saw Col. Oliver North on tv for the first time. Why Iran contra. Our economy was fucked up then. I remeber president bush SR.
I was a 18 yr old soldier going to the sands then. The saudis told us to get out and colon powell agreed. Maybe then we should have went on into iraq. But that was under republican ldrship to. The the peace and prosperous times of clinton. Well they rich hated those yrs because he helped the poor. And the sorry ass days of the president we have now. Yea you voted for him. Now we find out that iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and I have been there 3 times and still havent seen it. But in those three yrs The military has high divorce rates, suicide is very high, and i find out from iraqi studies the surge didn’t work and they want us out. 3 out of 5 republicans i talk to on the battlefield and in garrison says they will vote for whoever will end this war……
I think everyone should research they will find out that the majority of the military wants change because not only are we soldiers but we still are citizens of the us.

By: beth

beth — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:45:36 +0000

I think you are right Sergioe. That’s been my experience with the military ppl I know. I haven’t actually met any or know of any that support Obama. But I’m sure there are a few.

Those that value the military and understand the mission and the importance of having a strong military are strong supporters of McCain and worry about the damage an Obama presidency would do to the military.

By: Sergioe

Sergioe — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:01:27 +0000

As a former Marine and having friends that are still serving, I can tell you this. Of course the troops want to come home, but time and time again I find them supporting McCain. I have found some that were friends of my friends that support Obama and my conclusion is this. Troops that support Obama are for the most part, one term enlistment people. The ones that are making a career out of it or are higher ranked NCO’s and pretty much all CO’s do support McCain because they value military experience and the fact that he’s a national military hero helps too.

By: Corey

Corey — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:11:30 +0000

American soldiers have donated 6 X more to the Obama campaign then to the McCain campaign. You might want to rethink your little propaganda piece.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:14:26 +0000

LAME! your all lame

By: beth

beth — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:47:37 +0000

I hear ya Jo. that’s absolutely right. I have to wonder how many guys she had to go through before she found the three she could report on!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:42:12 +0000

There was a “news report” on one station a couple weeks ago (CNN maybe - don’t remember), but they interviewed Iraqi soldiers to find out who they were supporting in the election. It was split between Hillary and Barack. Then the reporter said that they wanted to be fair, but that not a single soldier supported McCain. Really? Not a single soldier in that particula runit of the Iraqi army supports McCain. Now why is that so hard for me to believe. They immediately lost any trust I ever had in the accuracy of their “news” reports.

By: jo

jo — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:04:53 +0000

For every 3 she finds that will, she will find 3000 that won’t…guess she isn’t allowed to tell that particular truth, huh ?