I’ve said on a number of occasions that the Commander-in-Chief is a petulant and ignorant warmonger not worthy of leading America’s troops.
For my efforts, I’ve had quite a few Limbaugh-supporting non-combatants call me a variety of names like "mealy-mouthed puke" and "douchebag." I’ve even had Rush himself accuse me of lying on his live show. At the same time, others have said that Jon Soltz and the organization for which I work, VoteVets.org, "doesn’t speak for all vets." In fact, Rush said it himself:
"VoteVets.org doesn't represent the vast majority of veterans out there."
--Rush Limbaugh, October 5, 2007
So when the new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of military families came out in an article today, none of us at VoteVets were surprised—especially considering that the Marine profiled in the piece, Kent Fletcher, is an active member of VoteVets.
The results confirmed what we already knew: Given a long enough timeline (and despite what they say), the Bush administration will piss off and alienate every single living member of the United States military and every single living member of their families.
As quaoar has already explained in this excellent piece, the numbers in the poll data are very telling:
Among active-duty military, veterans and their families, only 36 percent say it was worth going to war in Iraq.
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37 percent of military-family members approve of the job Bush is doing as president, a little more than the general population.
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The same trend holds true on the question of the treatment of active-duty military, veterans and their families. The poll finds that only 29 percent of all poll respondents say they believe the Bush administration is doing a good job handling those needs.
For that last point, the converse would be "71 percent of all respondents don’t believe the Bush administration is treating the troops, veterans, or their families well."
But these numbers are made even more stupefying when you consider this critical fact: Until the invasion of Iraq, the military was overwhelmingly pro-Republican. And now? Not so much:
At the same time, a plurality of military-family members, 39 percent, say they believe Democrats are likely to do a better job handling those issues, compared with 35 percent for Republicans.
Really. Huh.
You have to be so totally, almost unfathomably, incompetent to achieve results like this. These geniuses in the Bush administration took an overwhelmingly friendly, pro-Republican, pro-Bush military and completely turned it around between 2002 and 2007. On accident
Congratulations, guys!
Paul Wolfowitz having a "Mission Accomplished" moment
So Rush, who represents the majority of veterans out there? You, or VoteVets? Haha. Just kidding. It’s a stupid question. I know.