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Rumtiger -> RE: Jihad Jane??? (2/2/2007 1:23:19 PM)
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
Rumtiger:
What is it exactly that makes the "boots on the ground" sacrosanct? We were fighting an illegal war. We were war criminals we were murderers but mostly we were tree snuffers. When we could not find the "enemy" we just broke stuff up for the hell of it...they were called "targets of opportunity" If you do not believe this perhaps you should acquaint yourself with names like Cam Ne and Mei Lei. Since you were never there and you seem to have a limited knowledge of that conflict you look to be standing in pretty shallow water.
I am curious how you might behave towards "boots on the ground" were you to find yourself, once you join the service, as a prison guard at Gitmo, Would you treat your charges as honorable warriors or otherwise?
thompson
Dont ever patronize me again.
I'm well aware of the military's job being to kill people and break stuff. And my reason for being in this thread in the first place was not about policies, politics or fucked up shit in Vietnam and i've made that pretty fucking clear by now, that goes for you too fargle.
if today you where to call me or my brother (a Marine whose already served his tours in Iraq) those same things, it wouldent be any different then Vietnam decades ago, not because of policy and not because of any shit that happened, it's because we are not in charge of what happens, we're just there to do our job, do what we are told to do, or in the words of my brother: "do what is necessary so that we came back alive."
You think the soldiers had any real say about where they went, where they fought or why they went? Going after them means your going after those with the least power in the situation, those without a real choice, it makes people like Jane Fonda cowards, and people who would do the same as her cowards, not cowards because they dident fight, thats our right as Americans to join the military or not, but it seems pretty fucking cowardly to me to attack those who simply had to do things without a say.
take your deabte about policy and the rest of the political bullshit and shove it, its not what i'm here for.
And by the way, what I intend to do in the military, and what goes on in my head isent your business unless I want it to be.
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