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slavegirljoy -> RE: A different voice on Iraq (3/25/2007 7:11:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: slavegirljoy
The "wrong people who fight the wars" are all volunteer members of our military.
I am not disputing what you wrote, slavegirljoy. My upset is with the person in charge of our military using the United States all-volunteer military in a war of aggression to maximize Halliburton, et al, profits. Monkeyboy was handed a weapon (being the US military) when he was elected President. I dont think he is using this weapon in a responsible manner.
If you think of the all volunteer military staffed by patriotic people like yourself as a weapon, and Monkeyboy as the one wielding the weapon, Remarque's comment is that people like you are the wrong people to be fighting. He simply pointed out that it would be better to take all the heads of state who want a war and let them fight it out.
Put another way, if you look at Monkeyboy as a Dominant, and the US military as a submissive, do you believe he is caring for his submissive in a responsible way?
Regards,
Sinergy
Honestly, the decision to use of our military in any conflict we have engaged in has always been questioned. Soldiers do not decide when or where to go to war, nor should they. Soldiers go to fight, when their nation calls on them to do so and they don't ask "why?" or "is this right?". They trust in their country's leadership to make those decisions and they just do as they're told, just as i, as a submissive trust in my Dominant to make the decisions on how He will use me and i do as i'm told. That's our system and, unless and until, the system is changed, that's how it works. As to how this particular "Dom" has used his "sub", history is usually the final evaluator on that issue. Not that people shouldn't question the decisions of their elected leaders and vote them out when they aren't pleased with them, but it needs to be done in a way that is not at the expense of our soldier's safety and fighting ability.
`Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
~From The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
As for the war profiteering that some companies engage in, that is nothing new. In fact, the great economic success that the country has enjoyed for most of the past 60 years was built on the war profiteers of WWII. Our economy would not be what it is, without the "Military-Industrial Complex" that grew major corporations out of a need to supply our "war machine". Much, if not most, of the U.S. workforce has benefited, in some way, from the companies that grew during WWII by supplying our country's war needs, companies that are household names today, not just Halliburton, which i never heard of until this war. It's nothing new that, right or wrong, wars create business opportunities, which create jobs, which fuel our economy.
slave joy
Owned property of Master David
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