Support our troops, preserve our freedom

Lieberman visits the troops, from The Carpetbagger Report.
Supporting our troops: The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator. He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers: “When are we going to get out of here?” “We’re not making any progress,” Hedin said, as he recalled a comrade who was shot by a sniper last week. “It just seems like we drive around and wait to get shot at.”
Supporting our troops? Get them out of there! Not only is no progress being made, but things are getting worse and worse, the region is getting more and more unstable, our enemies are getting bolder and bolder, and we're making more and more enemies.
Preserving our freedom: But as he waited two chairs down from where Lieberman would sit, Hedin said he’d never voice his true feelings to the senator. “I think I’d be a private if I did,” he joked. “It’s just more troops, more targets.” In other words, Lieberman assumes he knows what the troops are thinking — they agree with everything he thinks — but that’s largely because of an environment in which soldiers believe they’ll be punished for telling policy makers the truth.
Preserving our freedom? Our own troops, right up to generals, aren't free to tell the truth about what's really going on, so that the suits can keep pretending they aren't making things worse for everyone. Citizens aren't free to question what's going on, for fear of being called unpatriotic, although that's changed a lot. Somehow supporting our troops means sending them to their deaths by the thousands. How wrong is that? If only their sacrifices were making the world a better place, but they're not, and they're not to blame either. The blame rests with the commander in chief and everyone who elected him. Even the Democrats in congress share blame, for voting without thinking, and for failing to stand up for what's right for way too long. And that includes Hillary 'if I knew then what I know now' Clinton, who had what we know now available to her then.