State and DoD try to revive lagging public support by sending govs to Iraq

[Rose Siding]

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The four governors, all traveling in secrecy without their staff or spouses, left Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday following briefings in Washington with administration officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“We had a very frank discussion about why the American people don’t seem to be supporting the war,” Manchin said. “I’m sure they felt that it couldn’t hurt.”
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Also at the airbase, Manchin inspected Predator drone aircraft and inscribed two messages on the Hellfire missiles they carry. One message read: “For West Virginia’s brave and fallen.” The other had a harsher tone, meant for the bomb’s targets: “Sending you to hell from Almost Heaven.”
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Manchin said he saw the trip as a chance to convey how thankful the state is. “I wanted them to know how much we support them,” he said, “and I thought Easter was an appropriate time, when so many of them are giving up their holidays.”

http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2006041522

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Sending you to hell from Almost Heaven

Let me figure out that one

Let see one go to hell for killing innocents people
So if innocents get kill they go to hell

For West Virginia brave and fallen
What about the Iraqies children...... Dead and Innocents.

And all this on Good Easter.

Ever heard of live by the sword die by the sword
Oh wait they only on visit
Maybe should let them go on patrol.
Better still enlist them and make them give up their holidays :rofl:

[Rose Siding]

2. Bloodlust instead of just 'stop it!'

I really hate to see elected leaders not only play into it like that, but ramp it up.

Booyah :(

[Oversea Visitor]

3. I hate the last line

Stink like hell
giving up their holidays what crap
Soldiers dont have choice......
This sucks

[saltpoint]

4. Can't tell the future, but the trendlines aren't favoring Bush's war

propaganda machine.

There's not enough oil and spare parts in all the world to get that thing to work right anymore.