FemmeOwner
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If enough of them had had the balls to stand up and say "Hell, no, we won't go," there wouldn't have BEEN a war. It takes a LOT more courage to stand up and be counted, than to commit wholesale slaughter on a whole populace, on the excuse of *getting* Saddam. PLEASE! We didn't TURN Iraq into a disaster... we CREATED the disaster the moment our troops set hostile foot on Iraqi soil. When something is WRONG you say NO! You think it means a whole lot to the murdered Iraqi's or their surviving families and friends, that the American soldiers were "just following orders"? They should never have been sent there. They should never have gone like sheep to maim and kill to uphold some idiot megalomaniac's dream to be a "war president." They are not DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY. This war was NEVER ABOUT defending our country, and anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knows that. Even the soldiers know that. And, knowing that, they should have refused to be sent. If every soldier who knew it was WRONG, refused to go, there would not have been enough courts for courtmartials, enough jails to hold the courtmartialed. They would have had the support of a vast number of Americans, and leaders and people worldwide, because the Bush administration and that asshole Blair, riding on Bush's coattails, were the only people (I'm not counting the ignorant sheeple) who DID think invading Iraq was the right thing to do! So, the soldiers went even though they knew what they were doing was against all humanity. They did things against all humanity, in the name of following orders (<--copout). They have to deal with the consequences <shrug> And... by the way... I AM a Veteran! Vietnam era. My family is heavily involved in DAR. I'm descended from Officers of both the North and South in the Late Unpleasantness. My ancestors escaped to this country after Culloden. So don't anyone even THINK of calling me a traitor or un-American. I DO believe in the ideals that formed this country and made it great. In MY eyes, the REAL traitor, the traitor to this country and all that America stands for, is sitting in the Oval Office. quote:
ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael Fargle, I find your attacks on the troops reprehensible. Attack the political party that sent them there, attack the idiot who lied to get us into a war, attack the idiots who planned it, attack the idiots who want us to stay, but DON'T attack the fucking 18 year old kids sent an insane shithole, away from their families for years, afraid to go out because we have turned Iraq into a disaster, don't blame them from your very safe soapbox.
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