Bob Geiger, who is a veteran, examined the major speeches at the GOP convention for any references to the men and women who are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing. The top GOPers were too busy fomenting fear to actually say anything about the troops or their families:
What did not one member of the faux, support-the-troops line-up mention -- not even one time?
The sacrifice of our military families, the number of troops who have returned home in coffins since Bush lied us into the Iraq disaster and the trials of Iraq war Veterans.
To steal from the shrill Rudy Giuliani's speech on Wednesday, they said "nada, nothing."
For a party that wants to convince Americans that the entire Iraq debacle can somehow be reduced to the small amount of time spent on the "surge," every major speech was missing any acknowledgement whatsoever of the troops who have died and those still serving on the ground in Iraq -- except the couple of instances where they used the troops to lie about Barack Obama's record.
Even Veteran John McCain who had run the entire Republican convention under the "Country First" marketing label, spent much of his acceptance speech focusing on himself and his POW resume, without one word for the troops still serving in a war of his party's making. He also said nothing about the nearly 4,200 troops who have died or the Veterans who have come back to neglect and mistreatment under the Bush administration.
Main & gay blog