What are you doing to "Support Our Troops?"

Depending on the people with whom you are speaking, the meaning of "support our troops" varies greatly.

What I read on CNN.com today, is NOT my idea of "supporting our troops." Incredulously, our troops in Iraq are being significantly restricted from using the Internet, or "The Internets," as the President calls it.

Specifically, U.S. soldiers NOW have to rely on private accounts to use the Internet. Furthermore, they are blocked from using YouTube, MySpace, and eleven other Web sites.

You may wonder, what is the "justification" for this so-called "support?" Well, the military asserts that this is necessary for "security reasons," and because the troops' Internet traffic is "hurting system performance." Yeah, you read that correctly!

Read more about it at CNN.com.

Unlike our Administration, I believe that "supporting our troops" means bringing them home soon. This year. It means writing letters, or sending e-mails, to our representatives in Congress. It means raising awareness, one person at a time, through thoughtful discussion:

-Did you know that despite the Bush Administration sending thousands of Americans to "stop terrorist attacks," terrorist attacks have actually increased to seven times what they were before the U.S. invasion?

-Did you know that despite the Bush Administration sending thousands of Americans to "help the Iraqi people," Iraqis are now 58 times more likely to die from violence than before the invasion?

With these sobering realities, how can anyone truly believe that it's not "supportive of our troops" to call for Congress to cut off war funding?

I'll even go one step further...

Given the needless deaths of thousands of troops, and thousands of innocent civilians (not to mention, enormous violations of international and U.S. law) the impeachment of Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush would be an action far more supportive of our troops than anyone asserting that this war is moral.