Is your local paper listening to soldiers' dissent?

[mloutre]

Alternet columnist Phillip Barron asks: "Is your local paper listening to soldiers' dissent?"

The answer, not surprisingly, is NO.

As Barron goes on to note, "Only 1 of 3 active-duty soldiers approves of Bush's handling of Iraq -- but don't look to your local newspaper to tell you that."

And the Washington Monthly gives more detail on the polling data:

"Following up on an item from the weekend, the Military Times newspapers published a massive new poll after questioning 6,000 randomly selected active-duty members of the Armed Forces. The results ran counter to much of the conventional wisdom -- barely one in three service members approve of the way the president is handling the war; a majority believe it was wrong to go into Iraq in the first place; and a plurality reject the notion of sending additional troops into the war."

Hear that, wingers and surge-nuts?

When you try to tell us that the troops on the ground and the field commanders who lead them really want to see this war continue for years more, and to see us send tens of thousands more troops into Iraq to fight and die there... well, we know you're just lying through BushCo's and Robert Gates' teeth. Again.

Support our troops. Support our troops. Bring them home NOW.



{edited after the fact to add missing link to related article & comments thread at: http://blog.johnkerry.com/2007/01/the_troops_speak.html#comments }

[niyad]

1. the local rag here is completely reich-wing, ultra-fundy, and there are many military bases in this

community, so, no, the local rag isn't reporting on soldiers who dissent.