What does it mean to "support the troops"?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/09/national/w133541S60.DTL&feed=rss.news
"Very simply, this is either negligence on their part, because they were not happy with this when it passed, or it's incompetence," Dodd said. "It's pretty outrageous when you have all their rhetoric about how much we care about our people in uniform."