What the liberal whiners say:
'Well, we're coming to the end of Bush's illegal war for
oil. It won't be long now before we can bring our troops home, once
and for all.'
'I doubt they'd even understand it...Bush has loaded down our
military with a bunch of high school dropouts!'
'Oh, OK...it's just the MINORITIES then. Bush sends all the Blacks
and Hispanics to Iraq so his own whitey daughters won't have to
go!'
'Don't dodge the issue! You know what I mean. Minorities have NO
OPPORTUNITIES in this country, so they have to join the
military.'
'Right, they're just the ones doing all the DYING in
Iraq!'
The facts
1. If you're insinuating that Barack Obama is going to be
elected and then bring the troops home immediately, maybe it would
interest you to know that Obama secretly tried to negotiate with
Iraqi leader Al Malicki to WAIT until after the election to decide
on any U.S. troop draw-down, apparently so that he could get credit
for it. That seems like someone playing politics with our troops to
me. I wonder how they'd feel about that?
2. Our troops are our best and brightest. Just over 1% of our
troops lack a high school degree. In the general population with
18-24 year olds, it's 21%! Our militray is much better educated
than their peers.
3. First of all, do you realize that our military is VOLUNTEER?
Bush doesn't force ANYONE to join the military...thus, the word
"volunteer" appears before our military.
4. Wrong again. The facts simply do not support the belief that
many American soldiers volunteer because society offers them few
opportunities. The average enlisted person or officer could have
had lucrative career opportunities in the private sector. Also
minorities are actually underrepresented in the military.
5. You're still batting ZERO. White troops have accounted for
almost 70% of the deaths in Iraq. That exceeds their "active duty"
percentage.
