Funding the Troops

Acting as mothers of soldiers who have been deployed to Iraq, both Gov. Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain accused Senator Barack Obama last week of voting not to fund American troops there. A McCain campaign ad called “Dangerous” goes further, saying that Mr. Obama and other “congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops,” thereby “increasing the risk on their lives.”

On the campaign trail, Ms. Palin also claims that Mr. Obama “said too that our troops in Afghanistan are just, quote, ’air-raiding villages and killing civilians.’” In an interview with Fox News, she described Mr. Obama’s Afghanistan remark as “reckless” and said that, in her view, it was sufficient to “disqualify someone from consideration for the next commander in chief.”

With very little chance left McCain and Palin continue to dig and look for ways to attack the Obama campaign. Although Obama has stated that these statements were false on several occassions McCain continues to come full force. I do feel that we should do everything possible to keep our troops safe from harm. At this point taking the funding away would most likely weaken them physically as well as the troops mental statuses. I admire McCain will in taking as much action on the situation as this but, he doesn't seem to be getting anywhere by doing this. At this point in the campaign it seems to be too late to make a miraculous change in voters.