Washblog

...Often the pro-war camp will retort that since the U.S. Armed Forces only comprise voluntary enlistees - in other words, since there is no draft - antiwar Americans disgrace them in saying they support them but oppose the war. The troops know what they're fighting for, we are told. They signed up voluntarily. They chose to go to war, and we should honor their choices.

... Well, now many of them want out. The overwhelming majority of them, in fact, want to get out of Iraq by the end of the year. A good quarter of them want to come home immediately.

... if you support treating the troops like human beings, which necessarily means allowing them the right to quit their government jobs offered to them on false promises, you must oppose this war.

If you support the war, you support the troops' continued presence among an unhappy, occupied people that wants them gone. You support their continuing to die for a lie - the lie that if they continue to die in vain, those who have already died in vain will not have died in vain.

... Support the troops by bringing them home - at least the many who want to come home - out of extreme danger and back to their families and lives. Yes, this would destroy the war effort - which is what supporting the troops, at least in today's context, implies. If you oppose doing this, you do not really support them. How can you support them by continuing to insist that they die against their will?

You can't.

Maybe the new motto for pro-war supporters who insist that 72 % of our troops are wrong should be the open declaration: "Hell no, they can't go [home]!!
We DON'T support our troops!