Romney/Ryan on the Military

On October 3, 2012 Romney said the federal government’s role was to support the Constitution – life and liberty - protecting life – wants a strong military. On August 30 Romney said “…they lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose; they pledged allegiance to the United States of America…that united America will preserve a military that’s so strong that no nation will dare to test it…We will honor America’s democratic ideals because a free world is a more peaceful world, this is a bipartisan foreign policy legacy of Truman and Reagan and under my presidency we will return to it once again.”

On September 2 Matthew Dowd said “To me the empty chair (that Eastwood used in his speech) …represents the man or the woman who didn’t come home from Iraq, the people sitting around the table because their husband or wife is gone or daughter is gone, it’s the empty chair of a woman who has to work 2 shifts because she isn’t able to have flextime and who’s going to provide that for her, it’s the empty chair of a grandfather with Alzheimer’s that can’t be there because he’s in a home because the family can’t manage him.” September 9 on Meet the Press Ann Romney said “Multiple Sclerosis has been my teacher it has been at times a cruel teacher, for people to think that we don’t have empathy just because we’re not suffering like their suffering is ridiculous”. Is this really the attitude that you want in the White House?

In 1950 Truman took us into the Korean War and in the 1980s Reagan sold weapons to Iran (not an ally) with the profits going to Nicaragua; he had us fighting in Lebanon in 1983 and in Libya in 1986. On January 17 the Boston Globe reported the President of Liberia was once a CIA spy gathering intelligence on Gadhafi in the 1980s and it’s being questioned as to whether or not the US government helped him escape from prison in 1985; he’s now on trial for war crimes. Romney has no military experience (his father didn’t join-he was 34 when Pearl Harbor was bombed), he and none of his 5 sons joined nor did Paul Ryan. (Obama didn’t, Biden had asthma and couldn’t join however his son did – these guys don’t advocate war unless there’s no option). FYI-Paul Ryan on August 2, 2007 voted against HR3159 Mandatory Troop Rest Periods Between Deployments, February 16, 2011 he voted for HA16 Reducing Navy and Air Force Appropriations and on February 15, 2011 he voted no on HA13 Reducing Navy and Air Force Aircraft Procurement. On September 19, 2012 Republicans blocked S3457-The Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 because it exceeded the spending cap - a violation of the Budget Control Act; Republicans honor the almighty dollar over the lives of our military-when will they pledge allegiance to the US and its people. Romney’s position that we should fight another war just tells me he’s willing to risk your family but not his own and if he follows Reagan’s lead he’ll take us into another war instead of complying with the UN attempts for a peaceful resolution - his tactics will be unorthodox to say the least.