Top Democrat: Troops Are Stupid
November 27, 2006 by Conservative Culture
Filed under General
(Photo Credit: Jawa Report)
Wallace: Contrary to what you have been saying… Isn’t the voluntary army better educated and more well to do than the general population?
Congressman Rangel: Of course not…
Who voted for these people? Ok… they won because the troops according to them were too stupid to vote. Apparently he isn’t worried about the troops reading his comments. Perhaps he thinks they are too stupid to read them. Or at least he hopes that they will feel like they now have a champion for their cause.
I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
While YACRWB is all over this… Jawa is all over this comments as well.
My experience has been that returning soldiers are generally smarter and harder working than the average college student. By. A. Long. Shot.
It’s not even close. If I had a chance to just teach returning Marines, soldiers, sailors, or airmen I’d do it in a heartbeat. They are that good.
Look, no one goes in to the military because it provides them with the opportunity to kill people. Yes, many join because it helps get them into college. But these aren’t children. They know what they are getting into.
To think of them as anything other than fully competent adults is an insult to our men and women in uniform.
We have a lot more like this to watch over the next two years.
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