I doesn't matter who supported who for what ever reasons in the past. The fact is that Petreaus made a statement in support of Obama as Colin Powell did and in my view it is most interesting to see how people on the Right are reacting to it. The people on the left are in control and deserve support and deserve to acknowledge the support they are getting.
Woah woah woah woah woah....WOAH.
Hold on a moment, you've entered into contradiction land.
It doesn't matter who supported who for what reasons in the past....yet the ENTIRE basis for your thread is asking if Republicans
STILL support him. How can you even ask that if your not referencing the fact that, in the past, the republicans DID support him? Yet you're NOW trying to say that it doesn't matter who supported who in the past? I'm sorry, but that in no way, shape, or form makes any amount of logical sense in the least. Its back peddling, plane and in full view.
Not to mention, where is this notion coming from that somehow because one side in power we must fully support them. I take it you were on message boards loudly proclaiming the wrongness of Hillary Clinton stating that dissention is the highest form of patriotism? Or deriding liberals who were complaining about a fully republican controlled government? Are the notions of minority rights in our legislative branch and built in protections so that even those not in power can potentially stop things if they feel it is not in the countries best interest just not really there?
Not to mention, is there not a difference between questioning, disagreeing, and not supporting? Could I not question a companies approach to doing things, disagree with said companies approach in the end, but still donate to said company to support their business? And would it not be entirely different if instead of just disagreeing with said company I came out and decided to claim that company is criminal?
The Right has the tendency to throw people under the bus that do not agree with them.
As does the left. Politicians
in general do. For the right you can look at Jeffords and Specter, on the left you can look at their treatment of Lieberman and Miller. Its a politician thing, not a "right or left" thing.
Should I list the long list of Generals and commanders on the ground who were fired because they spoke up against Bush and Cheney?
No, because while discussing the lefts reaction to this information equally with the rights is actually on topic as theres absolutely ZERO reason for two breaking news threads about the exact same topic simply to discuss "the left" and "the right", there is nothing on topic about Generals and commanders speaking up against Bush and Cheney and getting fired as that's an entirely different conversation.
