Voting Against the Troops Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

This is ridiculous.  The voting against the troops arguement is absurd.  McCain did it just like Obama.  I've made this argument before.

I wanted to focus on McCain's claim that Obama "voted against troop funding."  Well guess what?  So did John McCain.  Last year during the fight over Iraq troop funding and withdrawal from Iraq we saw two rounds of bills.  The first would force the President to begin withdrawing troops within 120 days.  It passed and was vetoed by the President.  John McCain voted against it and supported Bush's veto. So according to John McCain's own definition he himself voted against funding the troops.  Obama voted against the second round of bills, which did not include any attempt to force the President to bring American troops home.

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The Republicans have always used the American troops as political footballs. Like everything else they see “the troops” as a single entity, not as individual members of the human race doing a worthy and dangerous job for the American public.
Republicans are the first to vote against taking care of our soldiers after they come home in terms of health care, veterans benefits and even continuing education.
By referring to them as “the troops” they can be dehumanized.