Why don't republicans fight the war, if they support it??
930804
80% of the military is Republican
85028
There is a Republican thinktank in our country called Project for a new American Century. This group is not even representative of most Republicans yet it very well represented in the Bush administration. This group is very supportive of any miltary conquest regardless of reason as long as it "keeps America #1". They are currently feeding Americans propaganda about how you want us in your country and how the soldiers don't have time to kill anyone in Iraq because they are so busy handing out crayons and toys to Iraqi children. The short answer is this group attacked your country because just like when Hitler begin they knew no other country would move to stop them or doing anything about it. Please don't hold me responsible for the actions of that idiot Bush. Check out these websites of Americans opposed to the war.
714762
AMEN!!! Thats their problem they have absolutely NO plans at all! Thats all they do is bash republicans they need to shut up and start talking about what the hell they are going to do. Bashing republicans isnt what people want to hear they can do that themselves they need to hear plans of action of what they are going to do to make this country better and what they are going to do about the situation in Iraq.
1085350
I personally think only Republican taxes should pay for this war and only Republicans should fight it.\n\nBtw, I'm female but volunteered to be reactivated for the Gulf War. Us liberals just have a higher sense of moral values on what is right and wrong. We have the courage to stand up against things we know are wrong; whereas, Republians just 'fall in line' like robots all chanting the same tune in sequence.
833491
Why are people opposed?\n\nBecause they think we're losing.  If we were winning, or at least not the steady stream of bad new (much of it bogus) then they'd be all for the war.\n\nThe "enemy" has been very skillful in their use of PR in this war, as skillful as the North Vietnamese were in the 1960's and 1970's.  The response from our side has been predictable, with the same people responding in the same way as they did before.
444620
WHEN YOU HAVE WAR MONGERING PROFITEERS, YOU WILL HAVE WAR!!  THERE'S TOO MUCH MONEY IN IT FOR THEMSELVES NOT TO PILLAGE AND PLUNDER THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS FOR IT.
408539
Very well put! They just can't get past partisan politics. Nothing is good if it was done by a Republican I guess...yes it is very sad!
643074
The war is wrong no matter who supported it. Besides, you can get yourself into a half-baked idea and later realize it was foolish. That's the real problem with what's going on; we refuse to pull out and spare American lives and resources.
810157
The issue of Iraq is a hot button now and both parties are using it to help their cause in the election.  \n\nThe Democrats, are playing on the death toll numbers that are rising with the time that is spent in Iraq.  They are also spouting the high costs of the war to work it against the Republicans.\n\nThe Republicans are touting the future results that may or maynot happen because of the time and money (not to mention the lives) spent in Iraq. \n\nI am lost at the attitude of the American people concerning the war in Iraq.  If these people protesting the Iraq war were around during Pearl Harbor and World War II, I wonder would they be protesting that war too?  Have you seen any of the movies about WWII, they are just movies I know, but the horror and destruction that went on then are so much worse then what we see today.  The men lost in the battle for Iwo Jima far surpasses the total of men lost in the Iraq war, and the battle for Iwo Jima lasted some 30 days, not the years that the Iraq war has been going on.  I know one life lost is a waste, but does the American public really think that anyone is able to accomplish anything like what we want to have happen in the middle east without lives being lost and blood being shed?\n\nWake up to reality, the freedom and liberties that we all enjoy today came to us at a cost to our parents and their parents and their parents  and their parents and so on.  It was the cost of lives and blood and sacrifice, and not having people at home saying how bad a job the military is doing, or saying that people in the military are illiterate.  The generations befor us knew that whether they agreed as to what was going on or not, that part of winning the war was done back home by the support of everyone.
725439
I'm not a Republican myself, but I know several people who are deeply upset that their party is responsible for causing so much harm.  The problem is, they're not too thrilled with the alternatives either.\n\nPeople who still support Bush, at this point, are either painfully ignorant or pathologically delusional.  Maybe they're caught up in the gamesmanship of it; it's like rooting for a sports team and they'll keep rooting for their team no matter what, without thought. Or maybe they're motivated by hate and fear.  Or maybe they were raised with certain alliegances and now they would feel disloyal if they changed.\n\nBottom line is, they're misinformed, uninformed, prejudiced or just plain stupid.
1076769
It is hard to get a conservatives who is taught to do as they are told and to stand by their father figure regardless of ones actions. The other reason is fear for their career. You have to point out that these republicans today in the White House are not the good old boy republicans like Eisenhower who had a slogan, 'Vote for Peace", "Vote for Eisenhower". That is all you can do, point out that these are not real republicans.
802232
of course they would blame the republicans.  Also the reason why Iraq is such a failure is because republicans worry too much about what the democrats think.  We should have just gone in there done what needed to be done with no restrictions and that would have been it.
831973
with all the facts emerging from the lies ......... and chaos emerging from stability ......... how can neocon still support a war without a valid reason? a stupid war that cost 2865 American soldiers and 150000 civilians to lost their lives.\n\nthere would be no need for the draft if all the bush lover volunteer themselves and their children to go FIGHT IN IRAQ
534286
LOL ;) I LOVE questions like this!!!! HEEEEE HEEEEE\n\nI support our country and our troops, but NOT our president.\nI am a disabled veteran and a military spouse. I pray EVERY day that this war ends soon and that my husband NEVER gets sent to Iraq.\n\nSo you figure out what my answer is....
789956
Who is mocking the military? That is just more Republican lies. \n\nLiberals support our forces, so much so that we dont want them to die just so Bush doesn't lose political face.\n\nIs is more patriotic to put Gis in harms way for no better reason then Republican political expediency?
846115
Before Bush invaded more Americans opposed the war than supported it.\n\nNearly everyone on the planet opposed the war.\n\nMost military people opposed it.\n\nPowell opposed it.\n\nPolitician were, unfortunately, getting their news from the stenographers of the press, who reported lies as truth, and felt they'd be attacked as terrorists if they opposed the war, so they didn't.\n\nEvery HUMAN opposed the war. We still do.\n\nWe've been joined by the ranks of the deluded, who have switched to opposing the war. Too bad they hadn't a clue when it really mattered.\n\nSorry, I don't have a list or link to a list. The Bush administration squelched opposition to their loathsome war.\n\nYou could paw around the archives of Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog.\nhttp://www.juancole.com/
783578
If the republicans win..they would have too.....the terror groups will be upset their favorite didn't win.