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August 10, 2004
How will the Troops Vote?
Who will the troops in Iraq vote for in the presidential election? Here's what one soldier in Iraq has to say:
It's a mixed bag, as we should have predicted. I can understand how some soldiers could be mad a Bush. Let's face it, we did get the intelligence wrong on the WMD(maybe they did spirit it out of the country or bury it at the last minute, but we don't know that for certain yet). And virtually noone thought that the insurgency would be as fierce as it is.
The soldiers I know in the Army who are voting for Kerry in this election (which is a lot more than people would think) are voting for him because they're pissed off at Bush. They're pissed off because of Stop Loss, tour extensions, underestimating the amount of troops needed for Iraq, the Weapons of Mass destruction thing, the legitimacy of coming to Iraq, and they feel Kerry might also get us out of here faster. Stuff like that.
The soldiers I know who are voting for Bush are voting for him because they support him 110% on his Global War On Terrorism, and there is no shadow of a doubt that we did the right thing coming to Iraq. They feel Bush is doing a great job so far out here. A lot of the guys remember what happened to the military the last time a Democrat was in office. The guys I know who served in the military during the Clinton years, tell me all sorts of horror stories about the budget cuts. How they couldn't get any good training done, because they had no money for ammunition or anything. In training, if they ran out of bullets to fire, they would yell "Bang! Bang! Bang!" or yell "Budget Cuts! Budget Cuts! Budget Cuts!" to simulate shots being fired. Since Bush has been in office, we've never had those kinds of problems and there has been nothing but improvements in the military, we've had a couple small pay raises, and the quality of life has gone extremely up for people in the military.
And then there's people like me, who, even though he's kind of a nut, just might vote for Ralph Nader, just because he's the F-U vote.
That said, in another post he says that most of the troops support the war.
Posted by Tom at August 10, 2004 12:42 PM
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