Martinez: Letting Troops Rest Would "Demean Their Service"

[frogblues]

This guy is just another chickenhawk scumbag who never served in the military but doesn't want to give these guys/girls proper rest and recuperation from their hellish tours. And surprise surprise: none of his kids serve either. POS POS POS!

[stpeterican]

send this damn Cuban Refuge back to Cuba!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MtWhiteCld]

Close to all if not actually ALL of the Cuban Miami reps are vile neocon hypocrites and many self serving at best. My dad UNLIKE them served in Army in artillery and he HATES THEM ALL.

They drool over war but they HAVE NEVER SERVED nor their kids will serve. As a Cuban American the best thing that could happen to Miami and to be honest even Cuba is NOT A SINGLE Cuban politician, city official in office.

I long for the day people wake up and vote them ALL out . They are fascist hypocrites.

[stpeterican]

Strange how all this power hungry Cuban refugees turned out to be such fascists.

[LayneRoxxx]

Our whole government is fucked. It doesn't work.

[F4O4U4R4S]

somebody check if this assholes cleaning lady has a green card

[F4O4U4R4S]

" i think we would demean their service to take soldiers out of combat and give them a rest from cars that explode all of a sudden, you cant tell who the enemy is and there are bullets wizzing past everybodys heads" this guy is a total fuckhead

[MKB2814]

When the fuck will Demcrats start rubbing Republicans' bullshit in their faces.

Martinez just said the soldiers don't deserve a break from years of fighting and no Democrat called him an asshole for it.

[eekdog2005]

Ask the soldiers, not these paid off neo-con scum politicians that are profiting from the war in iraq, and that includes democrats scum as well. they're all in on it, they lied as well.

[thetruth073]

Ron Paul is a "Real Republican" for America like Lincoln was! Remember we can all complain and say how bad it is but until you stand up to corporate run governments like ours and take a stand it will not be tolerated, search for "Federal Reserve Fraud" and see who runs and owns America, it is not the people! But with Ron Paul it can be! VOTE RON PAUL 2008

[midwestcharm]

No one is allowed to rest until they get ALL the oil for these clowns.

[anarchyclayman]

does he have any family fighting in iraq?

[TainaAtheist1]

Mel Martinez: In light of your near-miss attack in Iraq, I am very disappointed in your lack of judgement in the Senate recently. Maybe a near-miss wasn't close enough for you; maybe we, the people, should order Senators -- like you -- to fight in Iraq so you have some idea of what horror looks like. What shame you bring to humanity with your lack thereof. Bring our troops home.

[6k2]

If america is having trouble getting soldiers to fight the war why don't they bring back the draft?

If this war is not important enough to bring back the draft why are they fighting it?

[mikemidcity]

support the troops, vote DEMOCRATIC.

[Undaunted3311]

GOP: Support the troops by giving them pay cuts and more time in the war zone.

Riiiiiight.

[hicksw24]

Wow....Im soldier and I dont know what to say to that.

[greatbroad]

People, we are in great danger. I saw an interview on Democracy Now w/Naomi Klein. Ms. Klein wrote: "The Shock Doctrine."

There is no mistake: Iraq is going as planned. The complete destruction of Iraq is necessary for the Super-Rich to build the nation to their advantage using blood from the poor and money from the US Treasury.

[WhyDidYouDeleteME]

it's sad that profits trump humanity, isn't it?

i'm getting used to it though.

[greatbroad]

Is it the kind of sad feeling you can live with for the rest of your life?

Like a once great African King who lives now in shackles, the once great American People are subjects to Imperialism.

[InfoJunkieHolland]

I'm just gonna have to deal with it.

If people can live with a disability because of a drunk driver hitting them, and still lead interesting lives, I can cope with the fact that humanity is being trumped by profit. I mean, what kind of sad person would I be if I could only see the dark side of life?

Oh yeah - I WAS WhyDidYouDeleteME, I changed my account.

Peace.

[greatbroad]

We do what we need to do; however, I have chosen to become an Activist.

In my personal view of life on planet Earth, and what it means to be human: we are eternal Spirits having a temporary Human experience.

For me, my life situation here as an American Citizen is merely a 'test' upon my remembering who I really AM.

[InfoJunkieHolland]

Have you been listening to david icke ?

I don't really think of life as you think of it. I think we're just results of an natural incremental development plan, or evolution, and we've LOST our connection to the earth, which is displayed in our painstaking efforts to coverup shit with streets and buildings.

[greatbroad]

I do not know David Icke. When I was v/small I remembered another life in Europe as a young boy who died v/suddenly in a fall from an open cart. Shocking. Thought I was crazy.

Later came to understand it was only in the past and I was a girl now. My husband must do the driving in the mountains, I get panick attacks.

[InfoJunkieHolland]

yeah, i don't really subscribe to the reincarnation thing. if it were true, i would've experienced that too, i would think, because i'm a very open minded person when it comes to things like this.

i think the dream you had was just a result of a childhood trauma/event that has you chewing on this issue till this day.

[greatbroad]

It is okay if you do not believe me. I have remembered other lives as well over time, 7 so far. I am not special; there are many others who remember past incarnations.

It is a mercy not to know because the pain of living here is great. Why add pain of past centuries unless you have a need to know.

[beatbaker]

Fucking GOP Traitors...

[mrgrieves9876]

send martinez out to iraq to look for ieds please

[FattKidd]

I think Congress should have to go to Iraq and STAY THERE until 'the job is finished'. They need to provide some REAL OVERSIGHT into what is going on there to make sure shit is getting done right. You can't have real oversight from 6000 miles away!

[rick810]

It really does sound like 6 months....why is that?

[moikl]

unbelievable

[marvs86]

I don't know about Mr. Martinez, but I know that serving in Iraq could be stressful and tiring. It is only fair that they rest while Congress went on vacation.

[Bolgernow]

Muck Fartinez! His anwser considers nothing of the emense sacrafice our brave men & women in uniform have already given & are giving. His anwser considers only one thing. His personal politics. Well then Mr Fartinez. If it's politics you want to play, then it's time you suit the fuck up, & head over to Iraq to serve. When you come back, I DARE you to stand behind that same podium, & deliver the exact same speech.

[charlotte8corday]

It sounds like he's saying SIX. Whiskey tango foxtrot?

[charlotte8corday]

Why is "15 month deployments" muffled out? If this video is still up in 10 years, new kids watching it won't know about 15 month deployments, won't be able to tell from this, either. You can hear every word except FIFTEEN.

[ale1mania]

Even this fool couldn't make himself say that a law curbing overdeployment does not support the troops. Maybe he's hoping that the word 'demean' is too complex for his constituency.

[mo1elftausend]

Good lobbying by the Pentagon.

[fishhead06]

Do these people even think before opening their cakeholes?

[nystreetfighter]

What a disgusting comment. This rates right up with Boehner's small price comment. Martinez is another troop hating repug. He and the rest of the repugs that voted this Webb amendment now are demeaning the troops' service. Not to mention breaking our military.

[adamsfall]

Hey,fuckwad! You demean the senate. Next time you take a month off of your "service" to the country, remember what you said.

[dafttool]

"Demean their service" for allowing for rest and recuperation?!! What tripe! How about the pathetic funding of veteran services and the disabled as demeaning their service? This Orwellian miscreant hasn't a clue what it means to support our troops.

[CKubasik]

Wow! Good thing the Republican Senators "support" the troops!

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

You know how you support the troops? You get them the equipment they need, you give them the time off they need so they can function well in combat zones.

The notion that Republicans care about the troops and the Democrats don't died a blunt obvious death in that vote.

[grazon]

My God Martinez has never so much as served in the Boy Scouts yet he claims to know what the troops would find demeaning to their service?

[andotech]

Wow. He's really reaching...

Floridians, vote his ass out!

[voiyour]

There are valid arguments against Webb's resolution, but "demeaning the troops" ain't one of them.

[Flirmy]

I'll be the unpopular one to agree that it's a bad idea to mandate troop deployment times. The army needs to be flexible in times of war.

[desspec]

Flirmy, I'll half agree with you, even though I know I'll take a hit, too. I think we need to be withdrawing it, but the problem is - and this is what noone is saying - is that we simply don't have enough troops. We're not going to withdraw next year 'cause Pres Bush says we're winning, we're going to withdraw 'cause we don't have the troops to keep up levels.

[thepaganwolf02]

Man, you are going to end up with a broken military at this rate.

[ljm3091]

Incredible. Anyone have any info on all the senate vacations that demean our country?

[morris0n2]

hshs mel is a joke

[mikey2600]

Wow. Someone needs to find his attendance records for the Senate and post a link here or something.

Did he take his last vacation at home in Flordia? Or did he stay in DC and "serve the national interest"? Did the security policy that enforced a locked door on the Senate floor during last Christmas vacation "demean [Senator Martinez's] service"?

[mark4l]

I doubt this senator will find one soldier who agrees with him.

Better yet, why can't this senator serve in the military, right now, and see what his opinion would be.

There is nothing more demeaning than asking our troops to die in a war for profit, oil, and one which was conceived out of INcompetence.

[drocloce]

Even at Stalingrad (WW II) the Germans rotated the troops on leave; expecting to return to defeat/POW.

Shame.