@Silverchild79,
Silverchild79;42268 wrote:FOXNews.com - Attack on President Bush Continues Past SCHIP Veto Override Vote - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Pete Stark launched a shocking one-man assault on the Bush administration Thursday, interrupting floor debate before a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the so-called SCHIP bill to suggest that U.S. troops in Iraq are getting their heads "blown off for the president's amusement."
Wow Stark, way to act five. There might be hated disagreement over the war, but to actually suggest US soldiers are dying for the President's Amusement is obtuse and obscene.
Apparently he was so upset over the fact his little Veto override would fail that he decided to just have a temper tantrem on the floor of the House...
Our children are dying at the behest of an unwise President and his cohorts. Anyone voice outrage at these deaths is - to use a much abused term - "Supporting our troops".
As an American citizen you need to be outraged at the disproportion between the total percentage of Amercia's children fighting this war and the percentage of children belonging to Senators, Congressmen and the Executive in the same war. If you just take the percentage of children of White House staff & the Executive in Iraq, the disproportion becomes a terrible joke on the nation.
How can you allow this? How can you support a war knowing that the President and his people who started it are not sending their own children to fight for the cause they espouse? This war would have ended years ago if there'd been a draft.
In ancient Athens every Senator voting for war was required to enroll to fight or send his next of kin. Guess what? War was thought out very carefully.
Ask yourself my friend. Would Bush have gone to war so readily if Jena was required to also head there in uniform along with our children? That is the million dollar question.
