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Who supports the troops? The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America has the lowdown:
To calculate the Ratings, IAVA reviewed all legislation voted on in the Congress since September 11, 2001. For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA took a position either in support of, or in opposition to its passage. The letter grades were derived from the percentage of times that each legislator's vote matched the official IAVA stance.
You will be quite shocked when you start looking up names and their voting records.
Let me get it started:
No Senator in either party was given an A grade by IAVA. Thirteen Senators received a rating of A- and all of those were Democrats. A total of 23 Senators were given a B+ rating and 22 of those were Democrats as well. The other was Independent James Jeffords of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democrats.
Cutting to the chase — and, perhaps more than anything I've seen in recent years, truly defining the difference between the two parties — is that the worst grade received by a Senate Democrat was higher than the best grade granted a Republican. GOP-lite Ben Nelson (D-NE) received the lowest grade of any Democrat with a B- while Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) managed a C grade from IAVA.
And, when I averaged the scores of both the Democratic and Republican caucuses by assigning the numeric midpoint of the letter grade received by each Senator, which party truly supports the troops was made remarkably clear: The 44 Democrats and Jeffords had an average military-support grade of B+, while the 55 Republicans, who beat their chests with disgusting regularity about how strong they are on military issues, averaged a pathetic D.
1. You conveniently left out reference to cut and run by the democrats.
2."For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA took a position either in support of, or in opposition to its passage. "
Two competely different subjects.
Democrats demand for premature withdrawal from Iraq is the direct cuase of military casualties. They are embolding the terrorists.
"Since January, Congress has introduced over 31 bills, almost 600 pages of legislation. The frantic pace these bills are being introduced and considered has caused IAVA and many other veteran service organizations to step back and wonder if these quickly drafted bills are really solving the problem. IAVA as a leader in the mental health field needs to harness and shepherd Congress' energy to passing meaningful change.'
Smitty, let's back up and look at the sentence the blogger wrote before the one you quoted:
"Mental health programs for veterans are broke and now Congress is trying to fix it."
My next question is why are they broken? Who broke them, the Republican lead congress? That gets right back to my point of who actually supports the troops.
The blogger from IAVA is saying that congress needs to understand “The System” in which problems exist before meaningful solutions can be implemented. So you are trying to say that a Democratically controlled Congress is purposely hurting the troops by trying to help them. Yes, the Dems should take the lead of the Republicans and screw the troops by voting against their interests
"Democrats demand for premature withdrawal from Iraq is the direct cuase of military casualties. They are embolding the terrorists."
Smitty, what were the 06 elections about. A vast majority of Americans want want us out of Iraq. Are we all "embolding" the terrorists?
We gonna kill them all before they follow us and and kill us here? There are not a finite number of "terrorists" in Iraq. We are producing more and more of them every day we are in Iraq.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:24 am
AMEN!!!!! Except it's OK for the troops to lose if that means Bush loses.
July 24th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Who supports the troops? The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America has the lowdown:
To calculate the Ratings, IAVA reviewed all legislation voted on in the Congress since September 11, 2001. For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA took a position either in support of, or in opposition to its passage. The letter grades were derived from the percentage of times that each legislator's vote matched the official IAVA stance.
http://www.iava.org/temporary
You will be quite shocked when you start looking up names and their voting records.
Let me get it started:
No Senator in either party was given an A grade by IAVA. Thirteen Senators received a rating of A- and all of those were Democrats. A total of 23 Senators were given a B+ rating and 22 of those were Democrats as well. The other was Independent James Jeffords of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democrats.
Cutting to the chase — and, perhaps more than anything I've seen in recent years, truly defining the difference between the two parties — is that the worst grade received by a Senate Democrat was higher than the best grade granted a Republican. GOP-lite Ben Nelson (D-NE) received the lowest grade of any Democrat with a B- while Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) managed a C grade from IAVA.
And, when I averaged the scores of both the Democratic and Republican caucuses by assigning the numeric midpoint of the letter grade received by each Senator, which party truly supports the troops was made remarkably clear: The 44 Democrats and Jeffords had an average military-support grade of B+, while the 55 Republicans, who beat their chests with disgusting regularity about how strong they are on military issues, averaged a pathetic D.
Go look for yourselves.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:55 am
1. You conveniently left out reference to cut and run by the democrats.
2."For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA took a position either in support of, or in opposition to its passage. "
Two competely different subjects.
Democrats demand for premature withdrawal from Iraq is the direct cuase of military casualties. They are embolding the terrorists.
July 24th, 2007 at 5:22 am
"Since January, Congress has introduced over 31 bills, almost 600 pages of legislation. The frantic pace these bills are being introduced and considered has caused IAVA and many other veteran service organizations to step back and wonder if these quickly drafted bills are really solving the problem. IAVA as a leader in the mental health field needs to harness and shepherd Congress' energy to passing meaningful change.'
Taken from IAVA web site
July 24th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Smitty, let's back up and look at the sentence the blogger wrote before the one you quoted:
"Mental health programs for veterans are broke and now Congress is trying to fix it."
My next question is why are they broken? Who broke them, the Republican lead congress? That gets right back to my point of who actually supports the troops.
The blogger from IAVA is saying that congress needs to understand “The System” in which problems exist before meaningful solutions can be implemented. So you are trying to say that a Democratically controlled Congress is purposely hurting the troops by trying to help them. Yes, the Dems should take the lead of the Republicans and screw the troops by voting against their interests
"Democrats demand for premature withdrawal from Iraq is the direct cuase of military casualties. They are embolding the terrorists."
Smitty, what were the 06 elections about. A vast majority of Americans want want us out of Iraq. Are we all "embolding" the terrorists?
We gonna kill them all before they follow us and and kill us here? There are not a finite number of "terrorists" in Iraq. We are producing more and more of them every day we are in Iraq.